Alien: Earth Receives Creepy New Trailer and Poster

Summary

Alien: Earth is a prequel TV series to the Alien franchise, featuring a new cast.
The new teaser trailer for Alien: Earth shows a facehugger on a spacecraft heading towards Earth.
The series will explore the Xenomorph's arrival on Earth, offering a new setting and horror elements.

Alien returned in style in 2024 thanks to the release of Alien: Romulus. In 2025, the sci-fi franchise will try something new in the original TV series Alien: Earth which takes the action to humanity’s home planet.

Alien: Earth comes from Fargo and Legion creator Noah Hawley. The series will feature a new cast including Sydney Chandler, Timothy Olyphant, Alex Lawther, Samuel Blenkin, and Essie Davis. Alien: Earth marks the first time the sci-fi franchise, which originated with Ridley Scott’s 1979 film, has taken the leap into television programming, and the series will serve as a prequel that takes place before the original story.

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By Alyssa Avina

The Alien: Earth Trailer Has Landed

Alien: Earth is approaching its summer release date and marketing for the series is ramping up. A new teaser trailer for the series was released by FX and Hulu, and it teases how the Xenomorphs arrive on Earth. Taken from the moving POV of a facehugger, the Alien: Earth trailer follows the creature through the various chambers of a spacecraft as an alarm sounds warning of a containment breach. The teaser ends as the facehugger reaches the window looking out at Earth, where its ship is currently bound for a crash landing.

In addition to the teaser, a new poster for Alien: Earth was released reaffirming the series’ Summer release window. The poster adds to the series’ eerie aesthetic by blending the Xenomorph with imagery of Earth. The tagline for the series reads, “We were safer in space.” These teases do little to give away the plot or direction of Alien: Earth, but the footage does reveal that the damaged ship will be the catalyst for the alien species’ invasion of Earth. The original Alien proved just how much damage one facehugger could do to a crew of seven people, so it isn’t hard to imagine what havoc one can wreak on a society of unsuspecting people.

How Alien: Earth Will Be Different to Other Projects In the Franchise

Previous teases for Alien: Earth has confirmed the series’ place on the timeline. One teaser trailer provided the ominous warning that “in 2120, Mother Earth is expecting,” which places Alien: Earth two years before Alien and after the events of Prometheus and Alien: Covenant. The official synopsis for the series reveals that Chandler’s character and a “ragtag group of tactical soldiers” uncover the crashed vessel, which leads them to discover the planet’s “greatest threat,” which is no doubt the Xenomorph.

Where prior Alien films have relied on introducing different species and evolutions of the Xenomorph, it appears Alien: Earth’s biggest point of difference will be its setting. The series will be the first Alien story to set its narrative on Earth, rather than on a spaceship or extraterrestrial planet. The fusion of these two ideas will no doubt be a breeding ground for new horrors about the Xenomorph, which audiences will find out about in Summer.