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With Weapons dominating the horror discourse this week, you might have forgotten that we are just over 24 hours away from the return of the Alien franchise with “Alien: Earth,” the long-running horror saga’s first ever official television series. In fact, the first Two episodes of creator Noah Hawley’s “Alien: Earth” will premiere on Tuesday night, August 12!

You’ll be able to watch “Alien: Earth” on FX, Hulu, and Hulu on Disney+ for bundle subscribers, with the first two episodes being unlocked for premiere at 8pm Et tomorrow night.

In Episode 1: “Neverland,” When a spaceship crash-lands on Earth, a sister searches for her brother amidst an unexpected alien threat.

And in Episode 2: “Mr. October,” Tensions rise between rival corporations, a reunion takes place, and a secret is revealed.

New episodes of “Alien: Earth” will premiere weekly, and you can expect those episodes on August 19, August 26, September 2, September...

The new sci-fi horror series Alien: Earth delivers a bold, terrifying vision for the beloved Alien franchise. Steered by showrunner Noah Hawley, the show lands on Earth for the first time, offering a gripping blend of creature horror, corporate dystopia, and complex emotional drama.

Release Date & Schedule for Alien: Earth Episodes

Alien: Earth comprises eight episodes, with a two-episode premiere, and new episodes released weekly every Tuesday in the U.S. and on Wednesdays internationally.

Full Release Timeline (U.S. schedule on Hulu/FX): Episode Title U.S. Air Date 1 Neverland Tuesday, Aug 12 2 Mr. October Tuesday, Aug 12 3 Metamorphosis Tuesday, Aug 19 4 Observation Tuesday, Aug 26 5 Emergence Tuesday, Sep 2 6 The Fly Tuesday, Sep 9 7 In Space, No One Tuesday, Sep 16 8 The Real Monsters Tuesday, Sep 23

International Release (Disney+):

Episodes drop on Wednesdays starting August 13, 2025. See your local Disney+ for exact times.

Plot Overview:

Set in the year 2120, Earth is ruled by five mega-corporations.

Ahead of the show’s premiere on Tuesday, August 12, on FX and Hulu in the U.S. and Disney+ internationally, FX will launch a global stunt across 14 cities in support of the sci-fi series, Alien: Earth.

The Uscss Maginot has crash-landed on Earth, and containment units holding mysterious alien life forms have fallen from the wreckage and landed in cities around the world. Brave fans who approach the Prodigy Corp officers protecting the salvaged containment crates will be rewarded with a chance to instantly win an exclusive prize.

Domestically, the immersive stunt will feature containment unit crates from the series, hidden Easter Eggs, photo opportunities, and exclusive prizes. By participating, fans have a chance to win a pair of limited-edition Alien: Earth x Skullcandy Crusher Evo Headphones with mind-blowing multi-sensory bass, an Alien: Earth thermos, or a collectible pin.

Plus, fans can receive special offers from “The Hunt” collaborations with...

Alien: Earth's showrunner and actors address the possibility of a new crossover with the Predator franchise. Premiering August 12 on FX, Alien: Earth brings the horror sci-fi franchise to live-action television for the first time in a new story set before Ridley Scott's inaugural Alien film. Meanwhile, the Predator franchise is also resurgent under director Dan Trachtenberg, with the animated Predator: Killer of Killers on Hulu, and Predator: Badlands premiering in theaters in November.

During ScreenRant's interviews for Alien: Earth, which already boasts the Alien franchise's highest Rotten Tomatoes score since 1986, creator and showrunner Noah Hawley, as well as actors Samuel Blenkin and Babou Cessay, spoke to Liam Crowley about the chances of a new Alien vs. Predator crossover.

While Hawley was cautious about the idea, citing that the Alien franchise has to "prove ourselves on television" first and noting his concern about a crossover could "steal some energy from the franchise,...

At first, the idea of bringing the Alien franchise to TV sounds about as dumb as getting into an elevator with a hungry xenomorph. But if anyone could translate Alien’s cinematic thrills for the small screen, it’d be Noah Hawley, who’s previously worked his magic adapting Fargo and Marvel’s Legion for FX. And he hits paydirt again with Alien: Earth — debuting Tuesday, Aug. 12 on FX and Hulu; I’ve seen the first six episodes — spinning a fresh story that combines genuinely terrifying alien attacks straight out of your nightmares with provocative meditations on what it means to be human.

Noah Hawley had no plans to appear in his new FX series Alien: Earth; however, things changed quickly when an opportunity revealed itself.

Hawley will make his acting debut in the premiere episodes of the sci-fi series he created, wrote, showran and executive produced. By his side, and also in his first acting role, is Hawley’s son Lev, 12. The elder Hawley will play Wendy’s (Sydney Chandler) father in a flashback, and Lev as a young Cj Hermit (Alex Lawther), Wendy’s brother.

“No. I mean, I’ve never done it before. It was not my goal,” Hawley told Deadline at an event in May when asked whether he had always planned to appear in the series.

He continued, “I have this maxim where I always talk about trying to combine maximum creativity with maximum efficiency. My son asked if...

The terrifying new series tells another chapter in the saga of humanity’s dark fascination with the lethal aliens.

Humanity faces the peril of its fascination with the unknown in “Alien: Earth,” the new series coming to Hulu this month. The series is the latest title in the storied “Alien” franchise, which has been terrifying audiences since 1979. The franchise shifts from the cinema to the TV screen with “Alien: Earth,” and we’ll share all the details we have about the new series here.

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“Alien: Earth” debuts on Hulu with its first two episodes on Tuesday,...

Reviews for Alien: Earth are in, and some critics are facehugging with excitement.

The FX drama series has an 89 percent at Rotten Tomatoes and an 86 score on Metacritic. It takes place in Prodigy City in 2120 — that's two years before the events of the influential first Alien film. Created by Emmy winner Noah Hawley (Fargo), Alien: Earth focuses on the Weyland-Yutani Corporation and the race to create new android life.

"Noah Hawley’s dazzlingly haunting epic is all about what exactly defines us as human," proclaims Brandon Yu (The Wrap).

Martin Robinson (London Evening Standard) agrees, raving, "Alien: Earth is the big win, managing to finally deliver on the promise the franchise has always had."

And Alan Sepinwall (Rolling Stone) notes, "As he did with Fargo, turning a classic and beloved movie into a long-running, award-winning anthology series, Hawley has taken a concept that has no business working for television and shaped it into something thrilling,...

With Noah Hawley in charge, fans have long expected Alien: Earth to offer a vastly different take on the long-running sci-fi franchise. Still, if the first wave of reviews is anything to go by, the Fargo and Legion showrunner has indeed put a bold new spin on the iconic property.

Boasting a story focusing on synthetics over the expected slaughter of human fodder courtesy of the Xenomorphs, Alien: Earth might not be what everyone wants from Alien. However, critics certainly appear impressed by the show.

The focus looks to be more on Alien: Earth's characters than its aliens, though the majority seem to agree that it still makes for compelling viewing. Some were less impressed (the word "boring" is thrown around), but most appear to approve of how Hawley is approaching the property.

Between this and Fede Álvarez's Alien: Romulus, it seems the Alien franchise is well and truly back,...

In just a few short days, the very first live-action episodic series to come from the Alien franchise will make first contact with FX. Titled Alien: Earth, the production is set to expand the sci-fi universe and switch up the format that audiences have been so accustomed to over the franchise’s seven standalone films. The first results are starting to roll in from critics, and it’s looking like Fargo and Legion creator, Noah Hawley, has hit a homerun that’s leaving the atmosphere. Currently, the title sits on Rotten Tomatoes at 90%, making it the highest-rated title in the franchise since James Cameron’s Aliens.

For a quick rundown, Cameron’s flick, which served as a sequel to the original, comes in at the number one spot on the franchise’s Rotten Tomatoes page, with a near perfect score of 94%. Falling just behind is the movie that started it all,...

The opening moments of Alien: Earth are a deliberate act of cinematic archaeology. We are back in the cold, functional corridors of a Weyland-Yutani vessel, the Uscss Maginot, watching a crew emerge from the stillness of cryosleep. This scene is a powerful signifier, a direct line to the 1979 film that codified a certain type of Western industrial dread. Yet, this familiarity is a feint.

The show quickly abandons the void of space for the dense, stratified society of a near-future Earth, where corporations have replaced nations. When the Maginot and its menagerie of horrors crash-land in the Southeast Asian territory of New Siam, the franchise’s core terror is transplanted into a new cultural ecosystem.

This external threat arrives almost simultaneously with an internal one: the corporation Prodigy has perfected “hybrids,” synthetic bodies implanted with the consciousness of terminally ill children. The series immediately establishes its dual concerns—the classic...

Sydney Chandler probably didn’t expect a career in acting to involve running from a nightmare she’s had since childhood. But that’s exactly what happened on the set of Alien: Earth, FX’s first live-action Alien TV series. Playing Wendy, a synthetic-human hybrid loosely based on the character from Peter Pan, Chandler finds herself face-to-face with a Xenomorph. Only this time, it’s not haunting her dreams, it’s chasing her down a corridor. “I saw this movie also at too young of an age,” she admitted during an Alien: Earth press conference. “And the Xenomorph visited me in my nightmares many a time. So, it was a full-circle moment to be chased by a real Xeno instead of just dreaming about it.” She even gave a shout-out to Cameron Brown, the actor who brings the alien menace to life: “Cam was so wonderful… He should be here.

Plot: Two years before the Nostromo fell prey to a xenomorph, the space vessel Maginot crash-lands on Earth with some very dangerous cargo.

Review: Noah Hawley’s Alien: Earth is probably the most ambitious TV series of the year. Featuring top-notch production values and a budget that would likely put most other shows to shame, FX is clearly trying to turn the Alien franchise into a high-end, tentpole series—something that can do for them what Game of Thrones and The Last of Us did for HBO. But how exactly does Alien work as a TV series?

Of course, Hawley is the guy who turned Fargo into one of the network’s signature shows, although it’s worth noting he’s not infallible—his last stab at sci-fi, Legion, got a mixed reaction.

Alien: Earth definitely benefits from Hawley’s clear love of Ridley Scott’s original. The first episode...

In its very first moments, FX’s Alien: Earth feels like nothing so much as, well, Alien.

Here we are once more aboard a Weyland-Yutani spaceship, the Uscss Maginot this time, watching a rumpled crew emerge from cryogenic hibernation. Here they go now gathering around the canteen, trading jokes and complaints. And here again is a crewmember examining way too closely the creepy-crawlies they have encountered on their travels.

You can fill in the rest from there — and indeed, Earth trusts you to do just that, initially offering only brief, jarring teases of the crew’s expectedly gruesome fates.

But if the prologue confirms that creator Noah Hawley can faithfully replicate the superficial trappings of this franchise, what comes next suggests he gets something of its spirit, too. Because Earth, as it turns out, is mostly not about rehashing Alien at all. Instead, like all the series’ most interesting follow-ups,...

Noah Hawley brings a classic sci-fi horror franchise to the small screen with the lavish-looking Alien: Earth. Here’s our spoiler-free review of episodes 1 and 2:

Television spin-offs from hit genre films haven’t always had a particularly good hit-rate. RoboCop, Highlander and Total Recall all got their own small-screen shows years ago, and while there was entertainment to be found in them, it’s probably fair to say that their meagre budgets meant they couldn’t always compare to the movies on which they were based.

This is the 21st century, though: an era in which TV shows are given a level of financing and visual polish that the makers of, say, Highlander: The Series could only have dreamed of. We’re also living through a period in which TV now attracts the kind of talent that would have been making mainstream movies in the 80s and 90s. In other words,...

Noah Hawley’s Alien: Earth has been in development for a long time — so long, in fact, that another theatrical film was developed and released before the show even came out. However, just as Hawley infused fresh air into other IPs, he does so with Alien: Earth, delivering a thrilling yet thoughtful blend of sci-fi and horror that was well worth the wait.

Alien: Earth Review

Alien: Earth is a prequel to the original film, set on Earth (as the title implies), as a space vessel containing monstrous cargo crash lands, setting off a fight between dueling companies to gain control over the specimens it contains. Although the concept of bringing this typically space-based concept to Earth may seem like a risky endeavor, it actually allows Hawley to enrich the world in compelling ways.

FX’s Alien: Earth — Pictured: Timothy Olyphant as Kirsh. Cr: Patrick Brown/FX

For the first few episodes,...

Alien: Earth lulls you with familiarity. Opening on the clinical, white-padded walls of a Weyland-Yutani vessel, we find daisy-petal cryo tubes surrounded by glowing monitors that spit text with a furious chatter. A ramshackle crew, complete with creepy science officer and grousing mechanics, eat and smoke around the breakfast table. It’s an almost uncanny facsimile of Ridley Scott’s Alien, lifted straight from 1979. But while the Uscss Maginot (history nerds may knowingly smirk) is not the Nostromo, its mission ends just as unfortunately.

The crash brings us to an Earth thus far only teased at in Alien cinematic lore — one carved up and ruled not by governments, but by five mega-corporations. It’s into this supra-capitalist dystopia that the Maginot takes its nosedive, a familiar biomechanical monster stowed in the hold.

From a parasitic eyeball to vampire termites, every one of Alien: Earth's ornery ETs is concentrated nightmare fuel...

For the first time, the horrifying creatures from the “Alien” franchise are set to cause terror on our home planet in a new television series. This fresh chapter, developed for FX, will move the action away from the isolated corridors of spaceships and distant colonies, bringing the iconic Xenomorphs directly to Earth.

The show comes from the mind of Noah Hawley, known for his work on series like “Fargo” and “Legion.” It promises to deliver a new kind of suspense to a world that, until now, has been largely unaware of the extraterrestrial threat.

This series will not feature familiar faces like Ellen Ripley or the characters from the recent prequel films. Instead, it introduces a completely new cast and storyline, focusing on a different corner of the vast “Alien” universe. The show is designed to stand on its own while still honoring the tone and style of the original 1979 film directed by Ridley Scott.

Timothy Olyphant and Sydney Chandler are stepping out for the European premiere of their new FX series!

The actors joined co-stars Babou Ceesay, Alex Lawther, and Samuel Blenkin on the black carpet at the premiere of Alien: Earth on Tuesday (July 29) held at the Barbican Centre in London, England.

Fellow cast members in attendance included Essie Davis, Kit Young, David Rysdahl, Jonathan Ajayi, Jamie Bisping, Diem Camille, Sandra Yi Sencindiver, Moe Bar-El, Max Rinehart, Tom Moya, Ade Edmondson, Erana James, Lily Newmark, and Adarsh Gourav along with creator and executive producer Noah Hawley.

Keep reading to find out more…Here’s the synopsis: “When the mysterious deep space research vessel Uscss Maginot crash-lands on Earth, ‘Wendy’ (Chandler) and a ragtag group of tactical soldiers make a fateful discovery that puts them face-to-face with the planet’s greatest threat.”

Alien: Earth premieres on August 12 on FX and will be available for streaming on Hulu.

Something is coming, and it’s not waiting for streaming. Alien: Earth, the highly anticipated new installment in the iconic sci-fi horror franchise, is set to make its explosive debut next week with an exclusive theatrical screening of the first episode, just days before its official FX and Hulu premiere.

In other words, you have the chance to be among the first to witness the nightmare begin on the big screen. The first episode of the new series will be shown early in select movie theaters on Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2025, at 7:00 p.m. You can get free tickets for this early screening on Fandango. However, keep in mind that seating is on a first-come, first-served basis. That said, showing up early is important because admission is not guaranteed.

Attendees will get free refreshments and opportunities to take photos. A mini poster giveaway will also take place at the screening, making...

“Alien: Earth” premieres August 12 on FX and Hulu, but the first episode will be playing in select theaters next Wednesday, August 6, and 7pm.

Free tickets are available from Fandago. The screening includes complimentary refreshments, photo ops, and mini posters.

Showings are first-come, first-served, so be sure to arrive early to ensure you get a seat.

The eight-episode series is set in the year 2120 — two years prior to the events of Alien and 16 years after Alien: Covenant.

Five corporations – Prodigy, Weyland-Yutani, Lynch, Dynamic, and Threshold – wield the power of nations, and proprietary advancements in technology provide the promise of a new tomorrow. 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.

Sydney Chandler, Timothy Olyphant, Alex Lawther, Samuel Blenkin, Babou Ceesay, Adrian Edmondson, David Rysdahl, Essie Davis, Lily Newmark,...

Babou Ceesay, one of the stars of the upcoming Alien: Earth, recently spoke about how his character connects to one of the Alien franchise's oldest villains. Alien: Earth takes place early on in the Alien timeline and deals heavily with the Weyland-Yutani Corporation and other companies. Now, we know a bit more about the Yutani Corporation before it merged with Weyland.

In an interview with ComicBook.com, Babou Ceesay spoke about his Alien: Earth character Morrow and his relationship to the Yutani Corporation. Yutani is the name of a character in Earth (Sandra Yi Sencindiver), her grandmother, and the second half of the infamous Alien villains, the Weyland-Yutani Corporation.

I don’t even want to give away his backstory … but he’s a cyborg, let’s just say that. When I say cyborg, what do you think? This is interesting. People have been saying odd things to me when I tell them I’m a cyborg.

Comic-Con 2025 and the Party Report return to San Diego where celebrities also embraced the con’s lively party scene. EW’s annual Saturday night bash returned to the Hard Rock’s Float rooftop, along with Fandom and a few notable others.

This year, there was also plenty to do offsite around the convention, so here are TheWrap’s photos from some of Sdcc 2025’s best parties and activations.

Nick Wheeler and Tyson Ritter of The All-American Rejects perform onstage during the Fandom Party at Sdcc 2025.

Fans watch The All-American Rejects perform onstage during the Fandom Party at Sdcc 2025.

Legendary comic book artist and DC Comics publisher Jim Lee along with actress Tiffany Smith attend the Fandom Party at Sdcc 2025.

Actress and Comic-Con veteran Aisha Tyler rolls up to the Blerd and Boujee Party at Sdcc 2025.

FX’s “Alien: Earth” series creator Noah Hawley, stars Sydney Chandler, Babou Ceesay, Alex Lawther,...

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Hulu is ready with an entertainment-packed August this year. While we already know all the brilliant films that will be leaving Hulu in the upcoming month, we will also see the premiere of the highly anticipated Alien prequel series and the streaming release of Osgood Perkins‘ The Monkey. Just like every month, Hulu is ready to overload you with great content. So, we’re here to tell you about the 13 new movies and TV shows coming to Hulu in August 2025.

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We are now just over two weeks away from the premiere of “Alien: Earth,” and FX has teamed with Cocktail Courier and Kraken Rum on a themed cocktail kit for your home viewing pleasure.

Creator Noah Hawley’s “Alien: Earth“ will premiere with the franchise horror series’ first two episodes on August 12 at 8pm on FX and Hulu in the US and Disney+ internationally. New episodes will follow weekly on Tuesdays at 8pm through September 23.

FX, Kraken Rum, and Cocktail Courier are stirring up something sinister for the premiere: a limited-edition cocktail kit featuring Kraken Rum. The “Containment Cocktail Kit” includes co-branded glasses and ingredients to make two custom cocktail recipes inspired by FX’s Alien: Earth. The kit is available now via Cocktail Courier.

The description reads: “A space vessel has crashed, and what it carried couldn’t be classified—it had to be contained. FX’s Alien: Earth...

The chilling silence is shattered. They are here. The Xenomorphs have landed. We repeat. The Xenomorphs have landed.

Alien: Earth is set to bring a new perspective and fresh storyline to honour the original masterpiece and Ridley Scott’s legacy. Appearing at the San Diego Comic-Con 2025 (via Black Girl Nerds), the esteemed creator and visionary Noah Hawley and the cast talked about staying true to the original piece of art while also incorporating a persona required for a television landscape. Talking about what it means to be a part of an Alien franchise, Hawley stated,

“Well, it’s a gift really. You know, I have a relationship with the movies that I adapt at this point and I do it from a place of love.”

“It’s been such a joy when you walk onto that set for the first time of the Majinot, which was built literally to the specifications of Ridley’s Nostromo.

The Alien franchise is all set to break new ground with Alien: Earth, the first live-action TV series set in its iconic xenomorph-bursting universe. It is set two years before the 1979 film, Alien, and takes place on Earth instead of a ship journeying through space. The show will explore a dystopian Earth controlled by mega-corporations where alien threats and synthetic life will collide.

Created by Noah Hawley and executive produced by Ridley Scott, this Hulu and FX original will introduce a new crew to the acid-blood creatures. This show is set to deliver the same seat-gripping horror that audiences have come to expect from the franchise, but with a better exploration of corporate greed, artificial intelligence, and more.

Expect more of what you saw in the opening scenes of the Cailee Spaeny starrer Alien: Romulus, but for multiple episodes and with the titular aliens. The release date is set, and...

"I almost peed."

That was Sydney Chandler's reaction to coming face-to-face with a terrifying Xenomorph for the first time on the set of Alien: Earth, FX's television adaptation of the popular film franchise. She plays Wendy, a powerful female robot with the consciousness of a human child. Chandler joined showrunner Noah Hawley, executive producer David W. Zucker, and cast members Timothy Olyphant (Kirsh), Babou Ceesay (Morrow), Alex Lawther (Hermit), and Samuel Blenkin (Boy Kavalier) at San Diego Comic-Con on Friday for a panel in Hall H, which followed the world premiere screening of the first episode.

"I became a kid again," Chandler revealed. "Xenomorph was in my nightmares as a kid. And so, when you're doing night shoots and you're running around at 4 or 5 a.m. and you have a Xenomorph — played by our wonderful vegan Cameron Brown — running at you very fast, I was just giddy. I...

Alien: Earth, the prequel spinoff series to Ridley Scott's sci-fi horror franchise Alien, is nearing its August 12 premiere on FX and Hulu. On July 25, the series had its advance screening at the San Diego Comic-Con, where some lucky fans had their first look. Creator Noah Hawley and cast members made an appearance in Hall H to present the first episode of the series, and participated in a Q&a where they talked about the highly anticipated show and how it differs from the original movies.Alien: Earth will stand apart from previous installments in the Alien universe in numerous ways — including new creatures and characters.

As reported by Deadline, Hawley felt humbled to take on the challenge of making an Alien series, especially one that features such a drastic change of location — per its title, the show takes place on Earth. He talked about Scott's original creation and how...

Noah Hawley and the cast of Alien: Earth got fans excited for FX’s anticipated take on the franchise during its Hall H panel at San Diego Comic-Con on Friday.

The audience in the room got to experience the entire first episode, which arrives on August 12, prior to a Q&a that included Timothy Olyphant, Sydney Chandler, Alex Lawther, Samuel Blenkin, and Babou Ceesay.

Hawley says he hopes viewers think his take on the terrors of the Zenomorph is a little different than the franchise has offered thus far, while also paying deserved homage to the titles that came before it, especially the original Alien.

“I have a relationship with the movies that I adapt at this point, and I do it from a place of love,” Hawley said. “These are movies that I loved [and] were very formative for me, and so it’s been such a joy when you...

The Alien franchise is set to continue on the small screen with an “FX on Hulu” TV series called Alien: Earth, from Fargo creator Noah Hawley, and the 8-episode first season of the show is set to debut with two episodes on Tuesday, August 12, at 8 p.m. Et on Hulu and the FX linear channel, and via Disney+ internationally. New episodes will drop on Tuesdays on Hulu and FX at 8 p.m. Et. Attendees of the San Diego Comic-Con had the chance to watch the first episode of the show today, and the first reactions are starting to make their way online!

Saw #AlienEarth pilot here at #Sdcc. Very strange (in a good way), smart take. Thankfully, not just a rehash of the movies because of Noah Hawley and his Fargo TV series sensibility. You’ll think you won’t be keeping up with all the characters but no worry: victims,...

Noah Hawley, the mind behind five seasons of Fargo, has poured nearly eight years into Alien: Earth, FX’s bold new sci-fi series based on the legendary Alien franchise. The show hasn’t even aired yet, but already, there’s talk of a second season. Hawley hopes the first season, which premieres August 12, will prove the concept. If audiences respond well, the team is ready to go bigger.

“Season 1 is the proof of concept,” Hawley says. “And if it works commercially, then Season 2 is about building a model upon which we can envision making a Season 3, 4, 5.”

The show is set in 2120, two years before the events of the original Alien movie. It brings the terrifying Xenomorph creatures down to Earth, dropping them into a future where mega-corporations run everything.

One of these companies created Wendy, a strange hybrid being who looks like a woman but thinks like a child. Wendy is played by Sydney Chandler,...

The Alien franchise is set to continue on the small screen with an “FX on Hulu” TV series called Alien: Earth, from Fargo creator Noah Hawley, and the 8-episode first season of the show is set to debut with two episodes on Tuesday, August 12, at 8 p.m. Et on Hulu and the FX linear channel, and via Disney+ internationally. New episodes will drop on Tuesdays on Hulu and FX at 8 p.m. Et. With the premiere date right around the corner, a 4 minute behind-the-scenes featurette has dropped online and can be seen at the bottom of this article. The featurette includes interviews with Hawley and multiple cast members.

One of the first things we heard about the Alien TV series – and one of the most surprising things about it – is that it will be set on Earth (thus the title), a couple of decades before the events of the first movie.

"When aliens come to our planet, we realize they're really the thing of nightmares... Which we're gonna give people." Scary! FX has revealed a new 5-minute behind-the-scenes "First Look" featurette for the new spin-off series Alien: Earth, based on the Alien series. Ready for release soon in August. When a specimen collection spaceship crash lands on Earth, a woman (Sydney Chandler) & ragtag group of tactical soldiers make a fateful discovery that puts them face-to-face with the planet's greatest threat. Created & directed by Noah Hawley. Also starring Alex Lawther, Timothy Olyphant, Essie Davis, Samuel Blenkin, Babou Ceesay, David Rysdahl, Adrian Edmondson, Moe Bar-El, Adarsh Gourav, and others. This video includes creator Noah Hawley and much of the main cast discussing making this series, including what it's going to offer, who their characters are, and much more. It's a much better inside look at this series than the most recent trailers. Alien: Earth...

Does humanity deserve to survive? That’s a question that was on creator Noah Hawley’s mind while making “Alien: Earth,” and it’s one he ponders aloud in a brand new featurette video unleashed this morning that gives us our most exciting look at the upcoming TV series to date.

Meet the characters, both human and synthetic, as well as the many monsters of FX’s “Alien: Earth” by checking out the 4-minute featurette titled ‘On-Set Dispatches’ down below.

“The show is huge, and it’s going to be something people are going to really have to sink their teeth into. This strange, exciting, and scary world,” teases star Samuel Blenkin.

Creator Noah Hawley’s “Alien: Earth“ will premiere with the franchise horror series’ first two episodes on August 12 at 8pm on FX and Hulu in the US and Disney+ internationally. New episodes will follow weekly on Tuesdays at...

Letterpress Play is now an official licensee for Disney/FX in support of FX’s Alien: Earth, the highly anticipated sci-fi series inspired by the acclaimed feature film franchise premiering August 12 on FX, Hulu, and Disney+ internationally.

In celebration of the new series and in collaboration with the iconic Alien franchise, Letterpress Play has designed two limited-edition letterpress prints, which will be released exclusively at San Diego Comic Con 2025 on Thursday, July 24th.

Join us on Thursday, July 24 at Loter, Inc.’s booth (#3913) from 1:30pm – 2:30pm Pst for a special signing with Alien: Earth creator Noah Hawley. The limited-edition letterpress prints will be available for purchase exclusively at the Loter booth. He’ll also be signing autographs at the Disney Booth on Friday, July 25 at 3:15pm Pst. Additionally, don’t miss the Alien: Earth World Premiere and Q&a on Friday, July 25 from 1:25pm – 2:50pm in...

After a series of immersive experiences at Austin and Las Vegas, FX is pulling out all the stops for “Alien: Earth” at Sdcc this year.

FX will host the series’ World Premiere in San Diego Comic-Con’s Hall H on Friday, July 25, 2025 from 1:25pm – 2:50pm and transform the Hilton Bayfront lawn into “The Wreckage,” a uniquely immersive experience which allows guests to step into the terrifying world of “Alien: Earth”.

The FX series is set in 2120 when “five corporations – Prodigy, Weyland-Yutani, Lynch, Dynamic and Threshold – wield the power of nations, and proprietary advancements in technology provide the promise of a new tomorrow.” As for the plot, “When a mysterious space vessel crash-lands on Earth, a young woman (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 highly anticipated TV series ‘Alien: Earth’ from creator Noah Hawley.

FX has released a second full trailer for Noah Hawley's Alien: Earth, and in addition to giving us a glimpse of the show's redesigned Xenomorph, we get to see some of the other "monsters" Sydney Chandler's human/android hybrid soldier Wendy and the other protagonists will face

The Xeno only appears right at the end of the teaser (and at a distance), but it appears to have retained the classic look of the iconic creature for the most part.

During a new interview with Collider, Hawley explained why he was hesitant to deviate too much from the original design, and "didn't want to mess with the silhouette of the creature at all.”

“I always felt like it was the least effective when it looked like a guy in a suit. You know what I mean? So there are elements, like in the classic, there's just this big ribcage,...

As the TV world kicks into high gear with Emmys season, streaming platforms are still hard at work to bring the latest in film and television right into your homes. August’s offerings on Hulu and Disney+ include a handful of new movies, family-friendly programming, a lot of “Ice Age” and “John Wick,” and the return of Chris Hemsworth’s quest for immortality. Disney+ has livestreams planned for outdoor adventures and World Princess Week, as well as the animated anthology “Eyes of Wakanda,” set in the “Black Panther” universe; while Hulu will premiere a new season of “King of the Hill” and a two-episode limited series about the wrongfully convicted Amanda Knox.

Top Pick: “FX’s Alien: Earth”

In Noah Hawley’s latest installment to the “Alien” universe, it’s the year 2120 and our planet is ruled by corporations (yikes!). Five giants run the world: Prodigy, Weyland-Yutani, Lynch, Dynamic, and...

It’s a great time to be an Alien fan. A brand new trailer was released on Thursday for the highly anticipated FX’s Alien: Earth.

This is absolutely brilliant, especially the final shot – what a great trailer. Can’t wait for August 12!

In an interview with Collider, creator Noah Hawley and executive producer and director Dana Gonzales had a ton of new info about the series:

“I think we designed something that is very photographable and scary and detailed. I don’t know if some of the older movies had some of the stunt techniques that we have now, the wirework, and the fact that we can kind of fly the Xeno around and stuff like that. So it’s not so much just coming out and scaring you and having that kind of jump scare. It’s literally flying through the air. It’s chasing. There’s a...

The Alienfranchise's first steps onto the small screen are coming up quickly, and fans are getting a good look at the IP's future. The FX and Hulu series Alien: Earthis taking the sci-fi horror franchise from the mind of executive producer Ridley Scott to uncharted territory: Planet Earth. Show creator Noah Hawley will usher the Xenomorph-filled universe into a new age with new monsters. In Alien: Earth, which is set before the events of the original Alien in 2120, a ship with five monsters collected from "the darkest corners of the universe" crash lands on Earth. While fans know one of the monsters, the iconic Xenomorph, very well, the other four remain a mystery.

The series' second trailer shows off bits and pieces of the new monsters that will run loose on the planet we call home. Hawley's series tackles "the emergence of the story’s infamous Weyland-Yutani Corporation and the...

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Disney+ ha publicado un nuevo tráiler de la esperadísima serie Alien: Planeta Tierra, que expandirá (una vez más) el icónico universo cinematográfico de la saga Alien, creada por Ridley Scott. Esta vez, el temible xenomorfo aterriza en el entorno más familiar –y terrorífico– posible: nuestro querido planeta Tierra. Así es, todo un hito, porque será la primera vez que veremos a la criatura en nuestro hogar.

Alien: Planeta Tierra se ambienta en el año 2120, cuando una nave espacial se estrella en la Tierra. Una joven y un variopinto grupo de soldados tácticos hacen un fatídico descubrimiento que les enfrentará cara a cara con la mayor amenaza del planeta. Mientras los miembros del equipo de rescate buscan supervivientes entre los escombros, se topan con misteriosas formas de vida depredadoras, más terroríficas de lo que jamás hubieran imaginado. Tras conocer esta nueva amenaza, el equipo de búsqueda debe luchar por la supervivencia.

An alien invasion is about to hit FX on Hulu.

Alien: Earth is a sci-fi thriller that's set two years before the events of the influential first Alien film. Created by Emmy winner Noah Hawley (Fargo), the TV project focuses on the Weyland-Yutani Corporation and the race to create new android life. This marks the first major television series based on the franchise, which already consists of seven main movies and two crossovers with Predator. Read on for everything to know about Alien: Earth as the second trailer drops.

When is the premiere date?

Mark your calendars! Alien: Earth will debut with two episodes on Aug. 12 at 8 p.m. Et/Pt on FX and Hulu, and will air every subsequent Tuesday until the Sept. 23 finale. The network is hoping this will be its next Shōgun, a big budget epic that will sweep upcoming awards shows and drive viewership numbers.

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The faint screaming of a creature stirring is heard at the end of the latest trailer for FX’s Alien: Earth from Fargo showrunner Noah Hawley, giving more clues to the series’ world-building and terrifying predators set to stalk a ragtag group of tactical soldiers in the year 2120 as they make a fateful discovery.

“We don’t lock them down… it will be too late,” Timothy Olyphant, as Kirsh, warns at one point in the teaser as mysterious predatory life forms imperil a deep space research vessel, Uscss Maginot, after it crash landed on Earth. The biggest threat among them to the research ship’s soldiers, led by Wendy (Sydney Chandler), is Xenomorph, a blood-dripping, sharp-toothed and screeching creature.

The series takes place near the end of the 21st century, before the event’s of Ridley Scott’s 1979 space-horror classic (Scott is an executive producer of the series via his...

The Alien franchise is set to continue on the small screen with an “FX on Hulu” TV series called Alien: Earth, from Fargo creator Noah Hawley, and the 8-episode first season of the show is set to debut with two episodes on Tuesday, August 12, at 8 p.m. Et on Hulu and the FX linear channel, and via Disney+ internationally. New episodes will drop on Tuesdays on Hulu and FX at 8 p.m. Et. With the premiere date right around the corner, a new trailer for the show has dropped online and can be seen in the embed above.

One of the first things we heard about the Alien TV series – and one of the most surprising things about it – is that it will be set on Earth (thus the title), a couple of decades before the events of the first movie. FX chairman John Landgraf said the show would take...

We are now just under a month away from the premiere of the FX television series “Alien: Earth,” which marks the first time the film franchise has made its way onto the small screen.

Creator Noah Hawley’s “Alien: Earth“ will premiere with the franchise horror series’ first two episodes on August 12 at 8pm on FX and Hulu in the US and Disney+ internationally. New episodes will follow weekly on Tuesdays at 8pm through September 23.

Watch the brand new trailer for “Alien: Earth” below for a fresh preview.

“Alien: Earth” is set before the events of the original Alien, in 2120. A ship charged with collecting monsters from the darkest corners of the universe crash lands on Earth, and one of the monsters is of course the legendary Xenomorph. But the “Alien: Earth” trailer makes it clear that it’s not the Only monster our human and android characters will have to deal with…...

"This ship collected specimens... 5 new lifeforms from distant planets... Monsters." Whoa! The best trailer yet. FX has unveiled a second official trailer for the spin-off series Alien: Earth, based on the Alien series. Confirmed for release in August this summer. Just a few more weeks to go... When a mysterious space vessel crash-lands, a woman (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. Set in 2120 when "five corporations - Prodigy, Weyland-Yutani, Lynch, Dynamic, Threshold - wield the power of nations, and proprietary advancements in technology provide the promise of a new tomorrow." This is created & directed by Noah Hawley. The cast includes Alex Lawther, Timothy Olyphant, Essie Davis, Samuel Blenkin, Babou Ceesay, David Rysdahl, Adrian Edmondson, Moe Bar-El, Adarsh Gourav, and others. The first full trailer for this series debuted last month, finally showing us some incredible footage.

FX has revealed a new trailer for Alien: Earth, the upcoming drama series from Noah Hawley inspired by the acclaimed feature film franchise. The series will premiere on Tuesday, August 12.

The first two episodes of Alien: Earth will be available to stream on Hulu at 8 p.m. Et and on the FX linear channel at 8 p.m. Et/Pt, and on Disney+ internationally. A new episode of the 8-episode season will premiere each following Tuesday on Hulu beginning at 8 p.m. Et and on FX at 8 p.m. Et/Pt.

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, Dynamic, and Threshold. In this Corporate Era,...

The Alien franchise is set to continue on the small screen with an “FX on Hulu” TV series called Alien: Earth, from Fargo creator Noah Hawley, and the 8-episode first season of the show is set to debut with two episodes on Tuesday, August 12, at 8 p.m. Et on Hulu and the FX linear channel, and via Disney+ internationally. New episodes will drop on Tuesdays on Hulu and FX at 8 p.m. Et. With the premiere date right around the corner, Hawley has revealed that the Xenomorph isn’t the only monstrous alien species that will be featured on the show, as it will be digging into the life cycles of other terrifying aliens as well.

One of the first things we heard about the Alien TV series – and one of the most surprising things about it – is that it will be set on Earth (thus the title), a couple...

Poster for ‘Alien: Earth’ (Photo Credit: FX)

Alien: Earth‘s big plans for the 2025 San Diego Comic-Con include the world premiere screening of the sci-fi series’ first episode. FX will be hosting an Alien: Earth panel in Hall H, and an interactive “The Wreckage” experience will give visitors a chance to step into the world of the franchise’s prequel series.

Sydney Chandler leads a cast that includes Alex Lawther, Timothy Olyphant, Essie Davis, Samuel Blenkin, Babou Ceesay, David Rysdahl, and Adrian Edmondson. Adarsh Gourav, Jonathan Ajayi, Erana James, Lily Newmark, Diem Camille, and Moe Bar-El also star.

Alien: Earth will premiere on August 12, 2025.

Alien: Earth at Comic-Con Details

FX’s Alien: Earth “The Wreckage” Activation:

Guests are invited to explore the mysterious debris of the Uscss Maginot to unearth new details from the highly anticipated upcoming series from creator Noah Hawley, inspired by the acclaimed feature film franchise.