A brand new Alien: Earth trailer has emerged on-line, providing followers their greatest look but on the upcoming TV collection.
The trailer, revealed on the @CineGeekNews X/Twitter account, under, was first proven at Disney’s 2025 Annual Meeting of Shareholders. It reveals the determined survivors of an area ship devastated by a Xenomorph, and on a course for Earth.
A brand new Special Look Trailer for ‘ALIEN: EARTH’ has been launched.#AlienEarth hits Disney+ this Summer! pic.twitter.com/tWVeFJRwtT
— The Cine Geek (@CineGeekNews) March 22, 2025
The trailer reveals off the brand new Xenomorph design, however is maybe most putting for revealing simply how shut Alien: Earth’s aesthetic matches that of Ridley Scott’s iconic 1979 horror unique. The scene is ready inside a MU/TH/UR management room that appears almost similar to the one within the Nostromo. It was there, in fact, that Ripley found the true horror of the crew’s scenario.
In the Alien: Earth trailer, a determined crew member pleads for assist, banging on the sealed door because the Xenomorph will get to work. Morrow, performed by Babou Ceesay, appears tired of her plight, reporting that the “specimens are free,” declaring the crew useless, and setting the ship’s affect level as Earth. We then see six troopers make their manner in direction of one thing, presumably the crashed ship. I think about issues don’t go properly for them.
The trailer sparks loads of questions. Does Morrow survive? What was his (its?) motivation? Did every other crew members survive? Was anybody left impregnated by the Xenomorph? And how precisely are these troopers inevitably killed?
This all units up the premise of Alien: Earth, which sees a mysterious area vessel (the one we see within the trailer) crash-land on Earth, with a younger lady (Sydney Chandler) and the aforementioned ragtag group of tactical troopers making “a fateful discovery that places them face-to-face with the planet’s best menace.”
FX’s Alien collection is ready in 2120, properly after Prometheus and simply two years earlier than Alien and the unlucky occasions that befell the crew of the Nostromo. Because of this setting throughout the Alien timeline, followers have speculated that Alien: Earth might depict the Nostromo leaving Earth, or reveal how evil megacorp Weyland-Yutani came upon concerning the Xenomorphs. As a reference level, the just lately launched interquel Alien: Romulus takes place between Alien and Aliens.
In January final yr, showrunner Noah Hawley defined why he isn’t utilizing the backstory supplied in Prometheus for Alien: Earth, saying he likes the “retro-futurism” of the unique movies. Hawley mentioned he spoke to Alien chief Ridley Scott about “many, many components” of the Alien collection, together with its ties to the prequels, however finally determined to chop free and transfer away from the bioweapon backstory as a result of he most well-liked the lore of the unique movies.
FX’s Alien: Earth hits Hulu in summer season 2025. Alien: Romulus 2 can be within the works.
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