After Alien: Romulus, the Alien franchise is exploring more possibilities with the Xenomorph through the FX series Alien: Earth, helmed by Noah Hawley, the creator of the acclaimed shows Fargo and Legion.
The makers released a new teaser showing us a spaceship carrying a terrifying "cargo" about to crash landing on Earth. We also got a new poster that once again confirms that the series will place the Xenomorph, the titular creature from the movie franchise, in a different setting for the first time — Earth!
Hawley has revealed that Alien: Earth takes place two years before the events of the Ridley Scott-directed 1979 film Alien.
The official synopsis: “When a mysterious space vessel crash-lands on Earth, a young woman and a ragtag group of tactical soldiers make a fateful discovery that puts them face-to-face with the planet’s greatest threat in the sci-fi horror series Alien: Earth. As members of the crash recovery crew search for survivors among the wreckage, they encounter mysterious predatory life forms more terrifying than they could have ever imagined. With this new threat unlocked, the search crew must fight for survival and what they choose to do with this discovery could change planet Earth as they know it."
Sydney Chandler is headlining the show, with Alex Lawther, Timothy Olyphant, Essie Davis, Samuel Blenkin, Babou Ceesay, David Rysdahl, Adrian Edmondson, Adarsh Gourav, Jonathan Ajayi, Erana James, Lily Newmark, Diem Camille and Moe Bar-El joining him in the cast.
In an earlier interview with Deadline, Hawley expressed excitement at exploring the idea of "seeing a Xenomorph in the wilds of Earth with your own eyes. That is truly chilling to think of it moving here among us, and so I can’t tell you under what circumstances you’ll see that, but you’ll see it — and you’re going to lock your door that night.”
On the creature's design, Hawley said he got to bring something different to the table, in terms of slightly deviating from the versions we saw before. “What was really fun for me was to really engage with the creature, bring some of my own thoughts to the design while not touching the silhouette, because that’s sacrosanct. But some of the elements as we know, whatever the host is inform what the final creature is. I just wanted to play around a little bit to make it as scary as it should be.”
