After years of waiting and teasing, we have our first full look at Alien: Earth, and the series is shaping up to be exactly as creepy (and creature-filled) as you’d been hoping for.
This morning FX and Hulu dropped the first full trailer for Alien: Earth, Noah Hawley’s long-in-the-making Alien prequel series. Set in 2120, just two years before the events of the legendary first film, Alien: Earth is set in a world ruled by corporate interests locked in a race to try and unlock the key to immortality and human longevity. One of those interests, Prodigy, manages to blow the race wide open with the arrive of Wendy (Sydney Chandler): a hybrid with the mind of a young human girl in a completely synthetic android body.
Naturally, not everyone is pleased by the creation of the hybrids, so when a giant spaceship comes crashing into Prodigy’s own megacity with nothing but a bunch of mysterious–and deadly–alien lifeforms on it, Wendy, the hybrids, and everyone else unfortunate enough to be trapped there find themselves in a fight for survival.
Yes, it might be primarily earthbound rather than in Alien‘s usual grimy spaceship and spacestation locales, but Earth definitely looks like it’s shaping up to nail the vibes you’d want out of an Alien project. Layer in all that wild worldbuilding, and of course, the inevitable violence that comes from unleashing a Xenomorph or two on some unwitting humans and synths, and you’re seemingly in for a treat.
Alongside Sydney Chandler as Wendy, Alien: Earth stars Timothy Olyphant as Kirsh, Alex Lawther as Hermit, Samuel Blenkin as Boy Kavalier, Babou Ceesay as Morrow, Adrian Edmondson as Atom Eins, David Rysdahl as Arthur Sylvia, Essie Davis as Dame Sylvia, Lily Newmark as Nibs, Erana James as Curly, Adarsh Gourav as Slightly, Jonathan Ajayi as Smee, Kit Young as Tootles, Diêm Camille as Siberian, Moe Bar-El as Rashidi, and Sandra Yi Sencindiver as Yutani.
Alien: Earth premieres on FX and Hulu August 12.
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