The Alien franchise has all the time been terrifying, however every horrific Xenomorph encounter comes with a silver lining: Hey, a minimum of it did not occur on Earth! (Apart from the Alien vs. Predator movies, after all.)
Nonetheless, FX’s upcoming Alien: Earth does away with that silver lining completely, asking what would occur if Xenomorphs arrived on Earth. The quick reply: nothing good!
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Created by Noah Hawley (Fargo), this prequel sequence kicks off when a Weyland-Yutani deep area analysis vessel crash lands in Earth’s Prodigy Metropolis, named after the Prodigy Company, certainly one of Weyland-Yutani’s rivals. An area ship smashing into a significant metropolis is already a disaster by itself, however issues go from catastrophic to “oh no, the world is screwed” as soon as it seems the ship was carrying not one, not two, however 5 hostile alien life kinds from the deepest reaches of area. Amongst them is the Xenormorph, together with new creatures assured to offer you nightmares.
Whereas the crash is a catastrophe for the complete world, Prodigy CEO Boy Kavalier (Samuel Blenkin) views it as a chance for revenue. He needs to take management of no matter Weyland-Yutani discovered, so he sends a squad of troopers to research the ship.
However these troopers aren’t abnormal people. They’re hybrids: humanoid robots who’ve been implanted with the consciousness of sick human kids. Sure, that is totally different from Alien‘s synthetics, which have synthetic consciousness along with a robotic physique.
Because the troopers, led by Wendy (Sydney Chandler), shut in on the crashed USCSS Maginot, the stage is about for an epic showdown between aliens and synthetics. For Earth’s sake, let’s hope the synthetics come out on high.
Produced by Alien director Ridley Scott, Alien: Earth additionally stars Timothy Olyphant, Alex Lawther, Babou Ceesay, Adrian Edmondson, David Rysdahl, Essie Davis, Lily Newmark, Erana James, Adarsh Gourav, Jonathan Ajayi, Equipment Younger, Diêm Camille, Moe Bar-El, and Sanda Yi Sencindiver.
Alien: Earth premieres Aug. 12 at 8 p.m. ET on Hulu and FX.
