At select screenings of Alien: Romulus last month, fans were treated to a teaser for the upcoming FX/Hulu series, Alien: Earth. Unconnected to the movie, Fargo and Legion showrunner Noah Hawley is the mastermind behind a series we now have an official first look at.
Yes, the sneak peek has finally been released along with confirmation that Xenomorphs are coming to Earth.
"The perfect planet for the perfect organism. Alien: Earth is coming 2025. Only on Hulu," reads the official description before adding, "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."
Alien fans have waited a long time 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 prequel 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.