UPDATE: A teaser trailer of a spaceship making a crash landing on Earth dropped during the AFC Championship game. Watch it above.
As its summer release inches closer, the new FX series Alien: Earth will drop new assets and interviews teasing what’s ahead. Today, the network has released new key art titled “XenoDome” revealing a closer and spookier view of the Xenomorph and its massive head, which you can see below.
From Noah Hawley, Alien: Earth is set two years before the events of the 1979 film Alien.
According to the show’s synopsis, “When a mysterious space vessel crash-lands on Earth, a young woman and a ragtag group of tactical soldiers make a fateful discovery that puts them face-to-face with the planet’s greatest threat in the sci-fi horror series Alien: Earth.
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As members of the crash recovery crew search for survivors among the wreckage, they encounter mysterious predatory life forms more terrifying than they could have ever imagined. With this new threat unlocked, the search crew must fight for survival and what they choose to do with this discovery could change planet Earth as they know it.
The cast includes Sydney Chandler, who leads the project, Alex Lawther, Timothy Olyphant, Essie Davis, Samuel Blenkin, Babou Ceesay, David Rysdahl, Adrian Edmondson, Adarsh Gourav, Jonathan Ajayi, Erana James, Lily Newmark, Diem Camille and Moe Bar-El.
“There’s something about seeing a Xenomorph in the wilds of Earth with your own eyes,” Hawley told Deadline at the Emmy Awards in September. “That is truly chilling to think of it moving here among us, and so I can’t tell you under what circumstances you’ll see that, but you’ll see it — and you’re going to lock your door that night.”
Regarding his approach to designing the sharp-tooth creatures, he said, “What was really fun for me was to really engage with the creature, bring some of my own thoughts to the design while not touching the silhouette, because that’s sacrosanct. But some of the elements as we know, whatever the host is inform what the final creature is. I just wanted to play around a little bit to make it as scary as it should be.”
New video game?
Uh, those aliens were not intelligent on the level to fly a spaceship. They were weapons, like attack dogs. Not sophisticated beings that could open doors, push buttons, regulate any kind of controls. So already the premise is stupid.
I actually kinda hate the idea that it takes place 2 years before the OG movie.
” Alien: Earth is set two years before the events of the 1979 film Alien.”
Very lame. Moves like this cheapen the storytelling of the original. I get that they want to milk the franchise, but stop doing prequels and re-doing things.
Part of why Alien:Romulus fell flat is because of all the nostalgic callbacks and leaning on the past of the franchise.
Major studios only want to make safe bets with these properties and that’s why they continue to cheapen the brands.
But Romulus didn’t fall flat – It was great. I agree with the rest of your point though.
Dave Romulus was weak. Weak naive characters / victims, Jackson’s Star and Romulus without security Colonial Marshals, Marines, WY Commandos, PMC
Terrible VFX. Looks like it’s a trailer for an A L I E N mobile game that came out over a decade ago. Up your game Disney and improve it before release. Surely you have the money?
That Jimmy Butler trade won’t happen until February, Riles wants to hold and he ask for too much in return. Then Rowanda came in with the bird flu that put a dent on the 11 satellites Space X supposed to launch.
We have to hope this was made just for advertisement. If this is a scene from the show…yikes.