ALIEN: EARTH Teaser Trailer And Story Details Bring The Xenomorph To Earth In New Series From Noah Hawley

ALIEN: EARTH Teaser Trailer And Story Details Bring The Xenomorph To Earth In New Series From Noah Hawley

The teaser for Alien: Earth has been officially released and with that comes some intriguing story details about a "fateful discovery" that pits the show's leads against the "planet's greatest threat."

By JoshWilding - Sep 03, 2024 04:09 PM EST
Filed Under: Alien
Source: SFFGazette.com

At various screenings of Alien: Romulus in the U.S. last month, fans were treated to a first look at the upcoming FX/Hulu series, Alien: Earth. Unconnected to Fede Álvarez's movie, Legion showrunner Noah Hawley is the mastermind behind a series we now have the official teaser for (via SFFGazette.com).

Yes, the sneak peek has finally been released along with confirmation that Xenomorphs are heading to Earth. 

"When a mysterious space vessel crash-lands on Earth, a young woman (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 FX’s highly anticipated TV series Alien: Earth from creator Noah Hawley," reads the official description.

It adds, "The perfect planet for the perfect organism. Alien: Earth is coming 2025. Only on Hulu,"

Alien fans have waited decades to see Xenomorph on home soil and we can't help but wonder what that will mean for the planet. 

It's previously been reported that the series is likely to be set towards the end of this century, suggesting it takes place a few years before Prometheus and decades prior to Ridley Scott's classic Alien

Hawley has also confirmed he's spoken with Scott (who serves as executive producer) and that his upcoming TV series will largely ignore the events of Prometheus and Alien: Covenant to stand on its own two feet, albeit loosely leading into the original 1979 movie. Along the way, we hope to see it fill in some gaps in the franchise's history.

"I think that endings are what gives a story meaning, and so you should never start a story without some sense of where it's going because then you can really build that meaning into it," Hawley said of his multi-season plan for Alien: Earth earlier this year.

"With Legion, I had what felt like a three-act structure to it that I didn't know if that would be three seasons or five seasons, or whatever it was, but I sort of knew what a beginning, middle, and end was. And here, similarly, I knew that their desire was for a recurring series, not a limited series, and I had an idea that I was excited about, that I could see the escalation of it from one year to another."

"That's where we ended up not pitching them having a bible or pitching them blow-by-blow," he continued, "but saying, 'Big picture: this is the first movement, this is the second movement, and we're ultimately going here.'"

The full cast for Alien: Earth includes Sydney Chandler (Don't Worry Darling), Alex Lawther (Andor), Samuel Blenkin (The Sandman), Kit Young (Shadow and Bone), Essie Davis (Assassin's Creed), Adarsh Gourav (The White Tiger), and Timothy Olyphant (The Mandalorian).

Alien: Earth premieres on Hulu in 2025.

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Nomis929
Nomis929 - 9/3/2024, 4:42 PM
This is what Alien 3 should've been about.
bobevanz
bobevanz - 9/3/2024, 5:18 PM
@Nomis929 - killing off Hicks and Newt was the dumbest idea, braindead AF imo
SonOfAGif
SonOfAGif - 9/3/2024, 5:19 PM
@Nomis929 - Alien3 and Alien Resurrection were both stasis nightmares Ripley experienced while asleep.
Nomis929
Nomis929 - 9/3/2024, 5:36 PM
@bobevanz -

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BackwardGalaxy
BackwardGalaxy - 9/3/2024, 6:25 PM
@Nomis929 - I still say Alien 3 is pretty damned great.
JonAwesome
JonAwesome - 9/3/2024, 6:34 PM
@BackwardGalaxy - it would have been a good 4th movie. We needed another movie with Ripley Hicks and Newt.
amesjazz
amesjazz - 9/3/2024, 7:15 PM
@BackwardGalaxy - I really enjoy Alien 3 but as a sequel to Aliens it's such a letdown. Still a solid Alien movie with a killer Xeno design and performance by Sigourney.
MahN166A
MahN166A - 9/3/2024, 4:44 PM
"It's previously been reported that the series is likely to be set towards the end of this century, suggesting it takes place a few years before Prometheus and decades prior to Ridley Scott's classic Alien."

"Hawley has also confirmed he's spoken with Scott (who serves as executive producer) and that his upcoming TV series will largely ignore the events of Prometheus and Alien: Covenant to stand on its own two feet, albeit loosely leading into the original 1979 movie."

Idk how they are going to report that it takes place before and after Prometheus and Covenant and then say its going to ignore the events of those films.

Basically this dude is just going to come up with his own origin backstory to Weyland Yutani and the Xenomorph's. Just creating yet another branched timeline.



Clintthahamster
Clintthahamster - 9/3/2024, 5:44 PM
@MahN166A - "Idk how they are going to report that it takes place before and after Prometheus and Covenant and then say its going to ignore the events of those films."

It says the show takes place before Prometheus (and, therefore, before Covenant) and before the OG Alien, so it doesn't have to take the events of those film into consideration, right? Since they won't have happened yet during the setting of this show?
MahN166A
MahN166A - 9/3/2024, 5:58 PM
@clintthahamster -

No it really doesn’t.
So yes.

But when that is the initial report and then as the showrunner you say, the show will largely ignore the events of the prequel films, why not just say that from the jump?

“My show doesn’t correlate at all with the prequels.”

Me: Okay so you are making a requel!
Izaizaiza
Izaizaiza - 9/3/2024, 7:00 PM
@MahN166A - Personally, I wish the entire franchise would just ignore Prometheus and Covenant. Not only were they pretty bad films, IMO (Prometheus especially), they kinda undid a lot of the great mysteries from the first two films.
MahN166A
MahN166A - 9/3/2024, 7:09 PM
@Izaizaiza -

I definitely get that position. There are times when the inclusion of David and him being the reason we SOMEHOW get the Xenomorph species we come to love.
I am on the other side of the argument where I enjoy those prequel films, however I am not naive in thinking that the execution of those prequels could have been done much better!

I like the films personally due to my love for seeing the formation of the Weyland-Yutani Corp and seeing the first eventual Protomorph.
Cause there is always a beginning and origin to these things. It’s like how some fans wanted to see what made Darth Vader, DARTH VADER.

The other side of the coin is, “we don’t need to get a definitive origin to The Joker! It’s best left alone!”
SonOfAGif
SonOfAGif - 9/3/2024, 7:42 PM
@MahN166A - David did not create the Xenomorphs. The Xenomorph species existed long before the events of Prometheus as shown on the murals. David simply took the Black Goo which was extracted from Xenomorphs by Engineers and took the Intel the Engineers had on the Xenomorphs and decided to "remake" the Xenomorphs in a faster more efficient way to play God and one up the Engineers. All David was good at was stealing ideas and concepts and wanting to advance them and portray himself as a god.
Izaizaiza
Izaizaiza - 9/3/2024, 7:53 PM
@MahN166A - Yeah, I get that position. I read the original script for Prometheus online and, although very similar, was WAAAAAY better. Made more sense and fewer dumb decisions and comments by the characters
MahN166A
MahN166A - 9/3/2024, 7:57 PM
@SonOfAGif -

That is a theory of them being created by the engineers and the black goo was extracted from an “already existing Xeno species”.
The one of David is also a theory where there is no DEFINITIVE ORIGIN.

What we do know is that David was responsible of DNA splicing using Shaw’s body but this particular idea is one that has been pushed by Ridley Scott in order to come up with the Xenomorph species.
It kinda tracks since we have seen the previous creatures from Prometheus when coming into contact with the goo.

I only go with the theory that Scott as pushed as a “pseudo origin”
MahN166A
MahN166A - 9/3/2024, 8:08 PM
@Izaizaiza - didn’t realize the original script was online!

Gonna have to check out the differences.

The only way keynote that I was aware of was that apparently the Engineers gave their knowledge and information to Jesus Christ, and because of him being killed, that was a determining factor as to why the Engineers felt it was necessary to execute the human race
bcom
bcom - 9/3/2024, 4:46 PM
The Alien timeline is getting a bit weird. If the Xenomorphs actually made it to Earth before the events of Prometheus then it kind of conflicts with the events of that movie as that was essentially the genesis of the Xenomorph? Am I missing something here?
MahN166A
MahN166A - 9/3/2024, 4:49 PM
@bcom - The article states that the showrunner is also ignoring the events of Prometheus and Covenant. Which is what I brought up in my own comment cause it doesn't make sense.
bcom
bcom - 9/3/2024, 5:12 PM
@MahN166A - Yeah. If it's an Alien show tying into the already existing Alien universe why would you ignore the events of the two 'origin' movies? I kinda think if you're doing a show or a movie set in an existing franchise then you should abide by the lore and timelines that already exist. Picking and choosing what to acknowledge and what to ignore tends to kind of confuse things.
MahN166A
MahN166A - 9/3/2024, 5:29 PM
@bcom -

I am in the same boat you are.
This kinda strikes me as someone who (like others before him), dislike the route that was taken with the prequel films, saw others who shared his mindset, and then decided to create his own head canon.

This whole era of Re-quels is going strong! Filmmakers just making their own versions of continuity while trying to ignore what was already established, as if, it’s going to erase the previous films from existence.
bcom
bcom - 9/3/2024, 5:44 PM
@MahN166A - I always enjoy a sequel, prequel or legacy sequel/prequel more if it doesn't try to reset the already established lore of the franchise it sits in. Doing that kind of thing makes things messy.

The one exception might be the Star Trek movie reboot. I think they did that in an incredibly clever way where it was a 'soft reboot' of sorts so they could take their own path with it BUT also set it in established lore by using a branched timeline due to Spock time traveling.
SuperiorHeckler
SuperiorHeckler - 9/3/2024, 7:13 PM
@bcom - We've reached a point where the new writers are being given creative license to cherry-pick what threads of history and continuity they wish to honor or wish to completely ignore. Therein lies the immediate danger of creating a contradictory mess of storylines and scenarios going forward. For the casual fan that may have seen a few ALIEN movies and have a basic awareness of the Xenomorph as just another horror-movie monster; that kind of fan will not really give two f**ks about any potential continuity conflicts. But, for dedicated ALIEN Geeks like yours truly; it will be received as a melodramatic sacrilege. 🤨
ObserverIO
ObserverIO - 9/3/2024, 11:53 PM
@bcom - Maybe Fede Alvarez gets to make that AxP movie with Dan Trachtenberg where Cailee Spaeney's character from Romulus teams up with Amber Midthunder's character from Prey and it resets the timeline.
EgoEgor
EgoEgor - 9/3/2024, 4:52 PM
The thing about Xenomorphs is, they aren't really a problem on Earth, just keep your distance and shoot them... but on a tight secluded spaceship, away from any human help, where their blood acid can spray on you or eat through your hull... big problem.
MahN166A
MahN166A - 9/3/2024, 5:00 PM
@EgoEgor -

The same could have been said about Velociraptor's in Jurassic Park. Look at how that turned out. Xenomorphs are also guilty of using their environment to sneak up on victims too as opposed to just being direct in their approach and chasing you down. Pack Hunter behavior is also a thing.
EgoEgor
EgoEgor - 9/3/2024, 5:24 PM
@MahN166A - the thing about jurassic Park is they are either tourist, scientists or poachers. Here it's tactical soldiers, with assault riffles probably out in the open. We'll see how they do it, but as a setup,it's far less scary and intimidating to face a xenomorph on earth.
bkmeijer1
bkmeijer1 - 9/3/2024, 5:24 PM
@MahN166A - Xenomorphs exhibiting pack hunter behaviour would be cool to see too
MahN166A
MahN166A - 9/3/2024, 5:40 PM
@EgoEgor -

Fantastic point.
However we have seen those who do have hunting training or eventually have had tactical training (Jurassic World with the Indominus Rex) who have been killed in a forest.

Other monster or creature films show how certain variables can play a factor as to how a creature or creatures can overwhelm a tactical force even out in the open.
I also reference the parasite creatures from Cloverfield as an example when they took on the Army National Guard ground forces.
If Xenos are indeed the “Perfect Organism”, then they know how to adapt to environments and what they are facing, and we have seen that sort of behavior regardless if it’s canon or not (AVP).
MahN166A
MahN166A - 9/3/2024, 5:42 PM
@bkmeijer1 -

Yeah definitely! We have seen swarms of them but to see them truly behave in a way that they coordinate efforts to attack prey would be cool.

It would certainly expand on their intelligence and ability of interaction. Alien Resurrection hinted on this when they purposefully killed one of their own to use the acid blood and melt their containment cage.
bkmeijer1
bkmeijer1 - 9/3/2024, 5:45 PM
@MahN166A - I never saw Resurrection, but that does line up with such intelligent behaviour. I can see them employ some orca hunting techniques as well (if the environment allows)
MahN166A
MahN166A - 9/3/2024, 5:55 PM
@bkmeijer1 -

Really not worth watching in terms of the plot but to see the way the Xenos moved and operated in that one was pretty awesome!

Well they can swim, so that would be bad ass to see them employ hunting techniques such as that.
Arthorious
Arthorious - 9/3/2024, 9:31 PM
@MahN166A - I kind of miss the raptors being the clever terrorizing dinosaurs that they once were. Jurassic Park needs to head back to the basics.
bkmeijer1
bkmeijer1 - 9/4/2024, 2:44 AM
@MahN166A - maybe I'll check out some clips on youtube then
harryba11zack
harryba11zack - 9/3/2024, 5:06 PM

"TV series will largely ignore the events of Prometheus and Alien: Covenant to stand on its own two feet" good they sucked and ruined the canon of the original film

"Alien fans have waited decades to see Xenomorph on home soil and we can't help but wonder what that will mean for the planet." .........no we already got that in the avp films and it was shit.

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dragon316
dragon316 - 9/3/2024, 10:42 PM
@harryba11zack - canon of alien series changes all time experts on Alien series are people who created it and work on it fans think they know history of aliens but Prometheus proved them wrong who are those people ones who work on alien series , created it and get payed to work on series come up with new ideas for aliens and predator fans don’t know much about aliens canon history experts who work on aliens books movies tv shows are real experts fans read about them by becoming experts changes all time .,

I like first alien vs predator second not much to dark make out everyone is different have different likes
SonOfAGif
SonOfAGif - 9/3/2024, 5:13 PM
What if the Engineers were in an arms race against the Yautja (Predators) to be the Apex Species in the universe and the Xenomorphs were an ancient species that went extinct because the Engineers continued to harvest their DNA to experiment on themselves to grow bigger, stronger, and immortal. They made their own little Xenomorphs in a farm raised environment and eventually lost control of their wild experiments causing one to crash it's ship on LV-426. And David wanted to one up the Engineers and stole their schematics and experimental files and wanted to make his own supreme Xenomorphs on Origae-6.
bkmeijer1
bkmeijer1 - 9/3/2024, 5:26 PM
@SonOfAGif - that's a good way to explain the two origins. Would be fun it they tied it closer to Predator (and eventually Soldier and Blade Runner).
EgoEgor
EgoEgor - 9/3/2024, 5:26 PM
@SonOfAGif - the more they explain things, the more convulted this shit gets. Keep it simply, Aliens are an apex predator that evolved on a hostile dark planet. Simple. The engineers made this shit complicated when it needs to be simple.
SonOfAGif
SonOfAGif - 9/3/2024, 5:47 PM
@bkmeijer1 - They could especially if The Engineers were modifying Xenomorph DNA to combat the Predators. And the Predators were going from planet to planet to battle the creations the Engineers made to advance themselves too.
SonOfAGif
SonOfAGif - 9/4/2024, 12:21 AM
@bkmeijer1 - They could even give Alien vs. Predator (Original) some canon by making Peter Bishop Weyland the father of Peter Weyland Jr (Guy Pierce) in Prometheus. And Bishop was given the look of Weyland Jrs father. And junior became obsessed with alien life after he found out about what happened to his father. And The Predators could have brought the Xenomorphs to Earth to lure the Engineers back to battle them in a war but the Engineers were focused on nuking Earth but never got the chance to because a facehugger outbreak happened on LV-223 (Prometheus)
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