ALIEN: EARTH Full Season Trailer Released; Noah Hawley On Decision To Introduce New Alien Threats - SPOILERS

ALIEN: EARTH Full Season Trailer Released; Noah Hawley On Decision To Introduce New Alien Threats - SPOILERS

With the first two episodes of Alien: Earth now streaming, we have a pair of new trailers, one of which spotlights footage from the rest of the season...

By MarkCassidy - Aug 13, 2025 12:08 PM EST
Filed Under: Alien
Source: Via SFF Gazette.com

The first two episodes of Noah Hawley's Alien: Earth are now streaming on Disney+, and a pair of new trailers have been released online.

The first pays homage to Ridley Scott's classic, while the second teases what's to come during the rest of the season.

Spoilers follow.

In addition to introducing two new artificial lifeforms to the Alien universe (Cyborgs and synthetic/human Hybrids), Alien: Earth features the debut of at least three new extraterrestrial threats, and based on what we see in the first two episodes, they're going to cause just as many problems for the show's protagonists as the Xenomorphs.

Episode 2 concludes on a cliffhanger, as Wendy rushes to rescue her brother CJ from the clutches of a particularly large and formidable Xeno. The trailer shows that CJ survives, returning to Prodigy City with the crew, while Kirsh and his scientists begin to study the new species of alien (sure to end well). 

The jury is out on whether Kirsh can be trusted. While he does appear to care (to some extent, at least) about the Hybrids under his care, the vibes he's putting out so far seem more Ash than Bishop.

During a new interview with THR, Hawley explained why he felt it was necessary to introduce some new alien species.

“My job in reinventing these classic films is to figure out, what are the series of feelings that the original makes me feel? And then, how do I make you feel those same feelings? The reality is I cannot make you feel the life cycle of this creature for the first time again because you know it so well, this evolution that it’s really four monsters and one. And it’s a parasite. Every step of the way is worse than the last.”

“The only way to make you feel that terrible discovery is to add new creatures,” he added. “You don’t know how they reproduce or what they eat. So you get this dread that comes every time they’re on screen where you’re like, ‘I know something’s going to happen. I don’t know what it’s going to be.’ And then when it happens, it’s worse than you could have imagined.”

Check out the new trailers below, and let us know what you made of the first two episodes in the comments section.

“When the mysterious deep space research vessel USCSS Maginot crash-lands on Earth, “Wendy” (Sydney Chandler) 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 year 2120, the Earth is governed by five corporations: Prodigy, Weyland-Yutani, Lynch, Dynamic and Threshold. In this Corporate Era, cyborgs (humans with both biological and artificial parts) and synthetics (humanoid robots with artificial intelligence) exist alongside humans. But the game is changed when the wunderkind Founder and CEO of Prodigy Corporation unlocks a new technological advancement: hybrids (humanoid robots infused with human consciousness). The first hybrid prototype named “Wendy” marks a new dawn in the race for immortality. After Weyland-Yutani’s spaceship collides into Prodigy City, “Wendy” and the other hybrids encounter mysterious life forms more terrifying than anyone could have ever imagined.”

Alien: Earth stars Sydney Chandler, 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.

The show's supporting cast includes Richa Moorjani, Karen Aldridge, Andy Yu, Enzo Cilenti, Max Rinehart, Amir Boutrous, Victoria Masoma, Tom Moya, Michael Smiley, Jamie Bisping and Tanapol Chuksrida.

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AllsGood
AllsGood - 8/13/2025, 12:48 PM
With the first two episodes of Alien: Earth now streaming, we have a pair of new trailers, one of which spotlights footage from the rest of the season...

Great Show.

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skyshark03191
skyshark03191 - 8/13/2025, 12:48 PM
Really liked the first two episodes!
ModHaterSLADE
ModHaterSLADE - 8/13/2025, 12:49 PM
Hawley is a BEAST. I thoroughly enjoyed this.
Santanaonfire
Santanaonfire - 8/13/2025, 12:59 PM
First two episodes were amazing! Can’t wait for more!!
kylo0607
kylo0607 - 8/13/2025, 1:08 PM
Can't believe they pulled off an Alien show and a good one as a matter of fact.

I honestly thought this was going to be dogshit from the trailers, but the first 2 episodes were great!
MarkCassidy
MarkCassidy - 8/13/2025, 1:10 PM
Loved the first two eps... there's definitely some Blade Runner influence.
GeneralZod
GeneralZod - 8/13/2025, 5:30 PM
@MarkCassidy - Better than Romulus? (I was not a fan of Romulus, nor was it terrible. I'm just looking for a baseline of how this compares.)
McMurdo
McMurdo - 8/13/2025, 1:54 PM
Did i enjoy the two episodes? Ultimately, yes. Mostly because of Sydney Chandler.

Is it incredibly stupid to such an extent that in no feasible way can it possibly fit into canon as a pre Alien story? Absolutely.

We now have superhero synth hybrids that function essentially on the level of Androids from Dragon Ball Z. They can basically do anything and everything. And now humans even have magic arms that can change into anything and everything..............

And yet none of that exists come the Nostromo and Alien 1979.

The tech is far too advanced and over the top that it no longer feels like OUR future in the same way Alien did. It no longer feels tangible. The verisimilitude of that original film and even with Aliens is now gone. Poof.

The only way this can in any way fit narratively (albeit still horribly) is if Weyland nukes Prodigy City from orbit and thus, the ending is already TELEGRAPHED.

What's going to be really hammy is when we all find out Weyland Yutani intentionally crashed the ship into Prodigy City to sabotage the competition.
RipleysCurls
RipleysCurls - 8/13/2025, 2:25 PM
@McMurdo - none of it makes sense this simply does not function as a prequel. basically an elseworld story, I mean we know Weyland didn't know about the location of the derelict because in Aliens they set up a colonization effort on LV426 and do not find out it was the source of the Nostromo's personal hell until they find Ripley in the beginning of Aliens and she explains to them that lv426 is bad news.
McMurdo
McMurdo - 8/13/2025, 2:33 PM
@RipleysCurls - Nailed it. I cannot stand the argument that Weyland knew about the xenos pre-Alien.

In regards to the original film, the financial opportunities of the xeno (if they're worth the Nostromo and crew) are more than enough to justify sending an all synth mission, or a set of colonial marines, or really any better equipped crew than a group of damned space truckers lol

The same goes for colonizing LV-426 in regards to Aliens. If they didn't know, it makes sense that they'd plop 150 colonists down there. If they did know, then colonizing LV-426 is silly. It's ridiculous.

If Weyland Yutani knew what was there, they'd have sent a science crew and space Marines straight away. They sent a freighter crew instead???


The MOST Weyland Yutani would have known is that there was an extraterrestrial signal in that system, which would explain the sudden assignment of Ash. Once again, if WY knew about what was on LV-426, why would they set up a colony there and only check on it once Ripley told them to in the sequel???

And to be honest, I'd argue that it is apparent the company did NOT even know about the signal itself until the Nostromo encountered it. The way the film plays, the company had Ash on board for some other reason we are not privy to as the audience, and this is precisely why the crew are surprised Ash was a synthetic. Not because Ash was put there on purpose to specifically capture a Xenomorph. That being said, the company had protocols in place in case something like this were to happen, because encountering ANY alien life would be very valuable. So when the ship's computer encountered a signal, and determined it was not human in origin, it relayed this to Ash and his routines kicked in to capture the lifeform (if there was one) no matter the cost. Crew expendable if necessary.

Alien originally never played as if the crew, Ash included, knew what was on LV-426. Special Order 937 played as if it was something that they put on board every space freighter just in case they ran into SOMETHING.

In my opinion, this always felt more Alien-esque. Space is vast and uncaring, and it was just bad luck that they happened to hear that beacon on a space voyage out to the ass end of nowhere.

Unfortunately, Prometheus changes the company from an uncaring and opportunistic capitalist entity into a hand wringing villain that is not exactly competent at what it does, and based on what transpired here....the same can be said for Alien:Earth.
CorndogBurglar
CorndogBurglar - 8/13/2025, 2:46 PM
@RipleysCurls - It takes a lot of retconning, but it can work.

First, we know Weyland-Yutani is all about collecting alien species. This is nothing new at all. So when they found the distress beacon in Alien, they had Ripley go to it.

Then W/Y loses contact with her ship. There's 50 years of stuff in between that time and Aliens that we know nothing about. Weyland-Yutani could have investigated, saw the alien ship, and decided to set up a colony nearby, for any number of reasons. Probably to learn more about the aliens.

Its really easy to fit this into canon. All it takes is understanding that the Weyland-Yutani suits at the beginning of Aliens were lying to Ripley, and they actually already knew about the Xenomorphs. They believed every word she said because they already knew about them.

And quite frankly, this 100% goes along with something that a bunch of higher-ups in a shady-ass, highly secretive, morally bankrupt, alien collecting company would do.

So I don't really know why thos can't fit into canon. Yeah, they made it sound like Weyland-Yutani didn't know about the Xenomorphs in Alien 1 and 2, but we barely see or know anything about W/Y in any of the movies. Its very easy to say they knew and they were just being secretive and shady. Because being secretive and shady is literally all we know about them.
RipleysCurls
RipleysCurls - 8/13/2025, 3:06 PM
@CorndogBurglar - its quite the opposite of easy to make this fit cannon. You said it yourself. They set up a colony on LV426 lol, not a science team. No marines. They did this precisely because they did not know it was the home of the worst invasive species in the universe. The company knowing about the xeno pre Alien wasnt a thing in Alien or Aliens. Mcmurdo just wrote a bible on this above so i wont re-explain this position but I agree tho that it takes an immense amount of retconning for sure to make it work, including retconning the original 2 films. No one watching Alien and Aliens when they first came out thought the company had any idea about the xeno. That came post Prometheus which is irrelevant to not only this new story but also the confined narrative of those two earlier films.
CorndogBurglar
CorndogBurglar - 8/13/2025, 3:53 PM
@RipleysCurls @McMurdo- I fully understand how the original movies were written and what the intention was. That doesn't mean this can't work, and it doesnt mean it even ruins anything.

And yes, they set up a colony. How do we know they didn't set up that colony as bait for the xenos? How do we know they didn't do it knowing the xenos would attack them and create more? You have to remember, before that colony there were no Xenos on LV-426. There was a crashed ship with a bunch of facehugger eggs. W/Y could have easily sent that colony there to create actual Xenomorphs so they could take one as a specimen.

The timeline would look like this: Alien: Earth just shows us that they had a Xeno specimen before the events of Alien, but they lost it. I'm assuming the Xeno and the eggs will be wiped out by the end of this show.

This will just make W/Y want a specimen even more, because they never got a chance to really study it.

So while Ripley and her crew are out mining, they find the distress beacon and crashed ship. W/Y orders them to go investigate (we already knew this happened).

The events of Alien happen. 50 years pass. During that time W/Y puts a colony on LV-426 in close proximity to the crashed ship, knowing someone will eventually find it and likely get Facehugged. Because they want a Xeno specimen and the only way they can get them is with sacrificial humans for the Facehuggers.

Alien: Earth didn't tell us HOW or WHERE they found the facehuggers and eggs. But we do know a crew member on the ship had a big hole in their chest where the Xeno came out. So wherever they got these specimens from, they didn't capture the Xeno. They captured facehuggers and eggs. The Xeno was born on the ship. So its even possible the Alien: Earth crew got these specimens from the same ship on LV-426.

They find Ripley, she tells them what they found, they claim they don't believe her in order to keep their shady nonsense a secret (even though they already know Xenos exist), and then Aliens happens. They send Burke and some marines to go collect their sample they've been working to get.

All of this can work fine. It doesn't really matter what was originally planned or intended. It still all fits.
McMurdo
McMurdo - 8/13/2025, 4:06 PM
@CorndogBurglar - why would you send a freighter to LV426 and set up a colony afterwards if your intention was to retrieve the xenomorph for research purposes. Why would you need to set up an entire colonization effort if your goal is to retrieve the species. By having the colony eaten alive and utilized for breeding purposes, you only make retrieval harder by increasing their numbers. No, theres no way to make it fit without it making the company outright moronic, which unfortunately is precisely the way this is going to go. They've made Yutani stupid with each new "prequel".
CorndogBurglar
CorndogBurglar - 8/13/2025, 4:32 PM
@McMurdo - Maybe. But it fits. Watch what I'm telling you. We're going to find out that the Alien: Earth crew got their facehugger eggs from the derelict ship on LV-426.

Thats why they sent Ripley out to that neck of the woods. Thats why they set up a colony. Thats why they sent Burke and the marines there. Because they learned the Facehuggers were there on a crashed ship, and if they put a colony close to the ship, they'll have more specimens to grab when the colonists get overrun.

And, they probably sent the Alien: Earth crew there because the planet from Prometheus is right there in the same star system.

SonOfAGif
SonOfAGif - 8/13/2025, 5:02 PM
@McMurdo - Except Sir Ridley Scott has made it clear that Weyland had some idea about Xenomorphs or at the very least the existence of an alien species like them. As he wrote it in Prometheus and Alien Covenant. And Alien Romulus showed that Weyland Corp obtained the Xenomorph from Alien to experiment on. So it seems like only high ranking executives knew about Xenomorphs, Engineers, and other species due to David-8. The videogame Aliens Fireteam Elite which is canon to the movies even mentions Elizabeth Shaw as the catalyst for discovering the Black Goo which the Weyland-Yutani Corp used on The Katanga Station.
Irregular
Irregular - 8/13/2025, 8:10 PM
@CorndogBurglar @McMurdo @RipleysCurls

Coming back here when I'm done watching it. Halfway through the 1st EP. So far though...even with the added stuff...I really like it.
Mercwitham0uth
Mercwitham0uth - 8/13/2025, 3:11 PM
The first 2 episodes were great. Actually better than I thought it would be. The introduction of other aliens species not related to the Xeno was welcome as well.

Hope the rest of the season is great as well.

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