'Alien' Spinoff Touches Down on TV: Everything to Know
- Alien: Earth premieres August 12, 2025, on Hulu, FX, and Disney+, depicting a 2120 Earth governed by five corporations during the Corporate Era.
- The series introduces advanced hybrids—androids integrated with sentient minds—developed by Prodigy, a competitor to Weyland-Yutani, signaling a major leap in technological progress.
- Wendy, the first hybrid prototype played by Sydney Chandler, joins a ragtag group investigating the USCSS Maginot crash-landing, leading to encounters with terrifying mysterious life forms.
- Executive producers include Noah Hawley and Ridley Scott, who bring the Xenomorphs to Earth before the original Alien events, expanding the franchise’s canon reportedly two years earlier than the film’s timeline.
- The series’ debut promises to deepen Alien’s mythology, integrating corporate dystopia and synthetic life while introducing five monsters, thereby reshaping the franchise’s narrative landscape.
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Alien: Earth lands mid-August
Alien: Earth will arrive on Hulu in the US on August 12 and Disney+ worldwide on August 13. When the mysterious deep space research vessel USCSS Maginot crash-lands on Earth, “Wendy” (Sydney Chandler) and a ragtag group of tactical soldiers make a fateful discovery that puts them face-to-face with the planet’s greatest threat in FX’s Alien: Earth. In the year 2120, the Earth is governed by five corporations: Prodigy, Weyland-Yutani, Lynch, Dynam…
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