Noah Hawley’s Alien TV series Earthhas been in development for so long at this point—we’ve been reporting on it for at least five years by now—that it’s kind of amazing to get continued evidence that the thing exists. But exist it does, as FX celebrated the annual “Alien Day” (it’s 4/26, the original Alien had them find the facehugger eggs on LV-426, some marketing person presumably received a small reward for thinking of this) by releasing a new, brief teaser for the show.
Which is, fair to say, extremely premise-forward: There’s a ship. The ship has five extremely gnarly alien lifeforms on it. (Collected by Weyland-Yutani, even though, as far as we can tell, the company’s endless efforts to weaponize extraterrestrial death machines has worked exactly zero times in nearly 5 decades of films.) The ship appears to be plummeting toward Earth. There’s also a Xenomorph there, jump-scare, we’re out.
In addition to the teaser, the press materials around the show are now also including a fairly hefty cast list, which includes 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, all centered around series star Sydney Chandler. Oh, and a tagline that tells you slightly less than the teaser, honestly, but we’ll go ahead and pop it in here anyway: “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.”
Alien most recently slithered into theaters last year with Fede Álvarez’s Alien: Romulus; despite a slightly lukewarm reception from critics, the film did well enough to reassure decision makers that people still like to see the monsters explode out of the people, and then eat them. Hawley, for his part, has been fairly quiet since Fargo‘s fifth season rolled out back in late 2023, presumably because, well, this. Alien: Earth is slated for an as-yet-undefined “Summer 2025” debut on FX.
