Full Trailer and New Poster Arrive for FX and Hulu’s “Alien: Earth”
Our biggest look yet at the new “Alien” prequel series from “Fargo” and “Legion” creator Noah Hawley.
FX and Hulu have released the full trailer for Alien: Earth, the first TV continuation of the long running sci-fi / horror franchise.
What’s Happening:
- After a ton of different teasers for the series the past few months, the full trailer for Alien: Earth has now been released.
- In the cool and evocative trailer, we get our best look yet at the film’s story about a Weyland-Yutani spaceship crashing on Earth in the year 2120 and the discovery onboard of what is grimly described as “five different life forms from the darkest corners of the universe."
- The film’s main character, Wendy (Sydney Chandler), is the first prototype for a new hybrid being, where a human consciousness is put inside a synthetic body.
- Created by Noah Hawley (Fargo, Legion), Alien: Earth also stars Timothy Olyphant (“Kirsh"), Alex Lawther (“Hermit"), Samuel Blenkin (“Boy Kavalier"), Babou Ceesay (“Morrow"), Adrian Edmondson (“Atom Eins"), David Rysdahl (“Arthur Sylvia"), Essie Davis (“Dame Sylvia"), Lily Newmark (“Nibs"), Erana James (“Curly"), Adarsh Gourav (“Slightly"), Jonathan Ajayi (“Smee"), Kit Young (“Tootles"), Diêm Camille (“Siberian"), Moe Bar-El (“Rashidi") and Sandra Yi Sencindiver (“Yutani").
- A new poster for the series was also released alongside the trailer. .
Just How Many Times Did Weyland-Yutani Have Aliens in Their Grasp?!
- Many have wondered just how Alien: Earth will work with established continuity in the Alien series - and worry it might contradict it. The series is set just two years before the events of the original Alien, but perhaps more importantly, it’s set 27 years after the prequel Prometheus, which delved into a lot of backstory it feels might not mesh with Alien: Earth. Or could it all coexist together? That remains to be seen.
- One thing that is becoming increasingly and somewhat humorously clear though is that Weyland-Yutani got a hold of the xenomorphs a lot more than you might expect given how desperate they were to get one in the original Alien films, in their constant attempt to use the creatures as a weapon.
- In last year’s feature film Alien: Romulus, set between Alien and Aliens, we learned there was an entire Weyland-Yutani space station that both captured a xenomorph and managed to replicate it. Yes, all on board were killed (and the space station eventually destroyed) but still, this was way more hands-on work than we ever would have assumed watching the earlier films.
- Now, Alien: Earth is letting us know that even before Ellen Ripley and the crew of the Nostromo were sent on their ill-fated mission by the company, Weyland-Yutani already had made contact with not just the xenomorphs and other alien creatures - but had already brought them to Earth!
- Hopefully the show will provide a satisfying reason for why not only did the company fail to hold on to any evidence of this but also why it seems the existence of the xenomorph never became widely known to earthlings. But either way, it’s pretty funny to think about Weyland-Yutani nabbing one of these suckers over and over and over again only to have it go sideways each time.
- Alien: Earth premieres August 12 on FX and Hulu.
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