The Xenomorph gets some terrifying new friends in Alien: Earth trailer
Alien comes to the small screen for the first time on August 12.
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Alien: Earth wants to take you back in time. The new FX series from Fargo creator Noah Hawley serves as a prequel to Ridley Scott’s original Alien movie, focused on the planet that Ripley and co. left behind. But Hawley’s desire to turn back the clock extends past the show’s plot. “My job, as I have also discovered with Fargo, is to figure out what the original movie makes me feel and why, and then to recreate that feeling for you,” he told The A.V. Club in a recent interview. “I think we found a way to create that feeling of awe in you that only that original movie could create. So that’s my hope is that the real innovation here is to take everyone back to that place in 1979 or whenever you watched it, so you can go, ‘Oh my god, I can’t believe how much that’s creeping me out.'”
The show’s new trailer certainly captures that eerie tone, but it also has a few surprises in store. Most notably: there’s not just one alien species, but “five different life forms from the darkest corners of the universe.” Even though many of this Earth’s humans are synthetic, that’s a lot to take on.