On Wednesday, FX released a teaser trailer and key art for “Alien: Earth,” the first “Alien” franchise TV series, which is coming to Hulu in summer 2025. The teaser features an image of Earth reflected in the gleaming black head of a hungry xenomorph, and unveils the tagline for the series, which is sticking in my head, not necessarily in a good way: “Mother Earth is expecting.” It’s no “Whoever wins… we lose,” the classic tagline from “Alien vs. Predator,” but it’s something.
The highly anticipated sci-fi series is created by Noah Hawley, who has prior experience adapting a movie for television with the “Fargo” series. It’s set in the year 2120, two years before the events of the original “Alien.”
Here’s the official logline for the series: “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.’ 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 is led by Sydney Chandler, of “Don’t Worry Darling” and Apple TV+’s “Sugar” and the daughter of actor Kyle Chandler. The supporting cast features 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.
In a 2021 Vanity Fair interview, Hawley talked about why his take on “Alien” is set on Earth. “The alien stories are always trapped… Trapped in a prison, trapped in a space ship. I thought it would be interesting to open it up a little bit so that the stakes of ‘What happens if you can’t contain it?’ are more immediate,” he said. He also said that the show will explore the theme of inequality, as the movies are about the workers sent by a faceless corporation into dangerous situations. In the series, we’ll see the managers sending the workers, too — and things won’t be good for them.
It’ll be a few months before “Alien: Earth” is on Hulu, but the latest “Alien” move, “Alien: Romulus,” is coming to Hulu on Friday, Nov. 22.
