TheAlienfranchise is headed to television later this year, and it looks as terrifying as longtime fans of the franchise hoped it would be. The first official trailer forAlien: Earthreveals Noah Hawley’s unique take on the horror franchise, whichmoves the action away from space. Unfortunately, on Earth, everyone can hear your scream.
Alien: Earthfollows a group of soldiers tasked with handling extraterrestrial life forms after a spaceship containing a handful of mysterious eggs crash-landed on the planet. As the footage teases, five different aliens have made their way to Earth, and while a Xenomorph makes a bone-chilling appearance, it seems the series will introduce new species to the franchise. Set before the original 1979Alienfilm,Earthwill reveal that aliens touched grass long before Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) and the rest of the Nostromo made contact with the deadly creature. You can check out the trailer below.
‘Alien: Earth’ Stars Reveal the Series Is Exactly What Fans Are Hoping for With Latest Tease
The ‘Alien’ saga is bringing the xenomorph threat home to Earth, and it looks set to be another crowd-pleaser.
The cast ofAlien: Earthfeatures Sydney Chandler, Timothy Olyphant, Alex Lawther, Samuel Blenkin, Babou Ceesay, Adrian Edmondson, David Rysdahl, Essie Davis, Lily Newmark, Erana James, Adarsh Gourav, Jonathan Ajayi, Kit Young, Diêm Camille, Moe Bar-El, and Sandra Yi Sencindiver. The series was created and developed by Noah Hawley, whose Emmy-winning work includesLegionandFargo. Despite longtimeAlienproducer and director Ridley Scottrecently revealinghis work on the franchise is “done,” he has an executive producer credit onAlien: Earth. Read the plot synopsis:
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 FX’sAlien: Earth.
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.
‘Ailen: Earth’ Star Says It’s “Impossible” To Compare Her Character to Ripley
Keeping up with franchise tradition,Alien: Earthfeatures a female character at the forefront, with Sydney Chandler playing the lead this time around. However, Chander is not playing the usual kind of human protagonist in the upcoming series. She is playing Wendy, a hybrid robot prototype that is a part of a new technological development officially described as “humanoid robots infused with human consciousness.” During a recent interview, Chandler discussed the “female identity” of the franchise, and howAlien: Earthasks the age-old question about the future of humanity.
“I feel like theAlienfranchise has a female identity, both with Ripley’s character in the films and then, of course, the fact that the aliens themselves are matriarchal, they have a queen. It feels very much like a female-focused show. Sydney’s character is someone who’s trying to figure out what her role is in this world and, on some level, the age-old question of, does humanity deserve to survive?”
For those who want to compare her character to Ripley, Chandler makes it clear that it is “impossible” to do so. However, she hopes audiences gravitate to Wendy as much as she did.
“I don’t even want to try to compare my character with Ripley. That’s just impossible to do. But I hope people like Wendy as much as I love her…. She’s my favorite character that I’ve ever been able to play.”
