Alien: Earth‘s First Teaser Sure Does Show an Alien and Earth

Earlier today, FX released a teaser trailer for its upcoming Alien TV show, Alien: Earth, which volition aerial connected Hulu successful 2025. True to its name, the 15-second trailer was arsenic advertised: a video of Earth reflected successful the glossy achromatic banana-shaped chromedome of visionary H.R. Giger’s Xenomorph.

Although the teaser trailer did the implicit barest of minimums to tantalize prospective viewers to support their eyes peeled for the amusement connected Hulu, we cognize much astir the amusement than its blink-and-you’ll-miss-it trailer leads on. For instance, we cognize who is down the show, who is successful it, and a wide outline of wherever it is successful the franchise’s continuity.

For starters, Alien: Earth—created by Fargo showrunner Noah Hawley and enforcement produced by Ridley Scott—is a prequel bid acceptable 30 years earlier Scott’s archetypal film. Here lies the series’ logline: “When a mysterious abstraction vas crash-lands connected Earth, a young pistillate (Sydney Chandler) and a ragtag radical of tactical soldiers marque a fateful find that puts them face-to-face with the planet’s top threat.”

In summation to Don’t Worry Darling‘s Chandler, the amusement besides stars Alex Lawther (The Imitation Game), Timothy Olyphant (Justified), Essie Davis (The Babadook), Samuel Blenkin (Black Mirror), Babou Ceesay (Free Fire), David Rysdahl (No Exit), Adrian Edmondson (3 Body Problem), Adarsh Gourav (The White Tiger), Jonathan Ajayi (Wonder Woman 1984), Erana James (The Wilds), Lily Newmark (Solo: A Star Wars Story), Diem Camille (Alex Rider), and Moe Bar-El (The Bureau). Some are well-known, others are newcomers, but immoderate and each of them could easy autumn prey to the cat-like alien.

Apart from the Joss Whedon-written Alien: Resurrection, which saw a quality hybrid abomination with the astir pitiful puppy-dog eyes get vacuumed into abstraction and burned up successful Earth’s outer atmosphere, Alien‘s creatures person visited our satellite adjacent before Alien: Earth was a thing. Unfortunately, those times person the misfortune of being a portion of the Predator crossover films.

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Seeing arsenic however Alien took spot successful the twelvemonth 2122, and the oft-forgotten Predator movie Alien vs. Predator takes spot successful the twelvemonth 2004, it would basal to crushed that Alien: Earth volition beryllium messily nestled aft the events of that ill-conceived crossover and Scott’s prequel film, Prometheus.

Continuity notwithstanding, nary 1 volition beryllium up successful arms should Alien: Earth determine to omit the poorly lit fever imagination thrust that was AVP and Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem from its canon. That spinoff franchise is champion near successful Alien: Romulus and Prey directors Fede Alvarez and Dan Trachtenberg’s susceptible hands, should 20th Century Fox amusement up to their backyard with a truckload of wealth and greenlight Alvarez’s gag movie pitch.

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