Alien: Earth Teases Five Alien Life Forms and Total Carnage

FX and Hulu’s prequel series Alien: Earth may have been one of the most anticipated projects in sci-fi over the last decade, but there was one thing viewers didn’t anticipate: having to wait almost two more years for a second trailer. After premiering the first short teaser during the 2023 NFL season, the duo last month released the first proper trailer for the series ahead of its eventual debut on August 12, 2025. Now, with just weeks remaining, FX and Hulu have once again upped the ante by releasing one final trailer before the premiere. As with the previous trailer, the streaming duo released a more fleshed-out synopsis to go with the footage.

Fans of the iconic science fiction horror franchise will feel at home with what Alien: Earth has to offer. The series will be both moody and contemplative, with new footage depicting sci-fi horror spliced with almost existential sequences of unknowable alien craft floating through the inky blackness of space. Bodies litter the floors of an unknown, dimly lit, and foreboding corridor. Limp, naked, and covered in blood, some humans claw their way frantically to escape, while in the distance, through a crack in the floor, the unmistakable form of a xenomorph’s silhouette can be seen, slowly slithering, ever patient, and all-consuming in the darkness.

Alien: Earth’s showrunner, Noah Hawley, is known for being a slower-paced showrunner in his approach to series-building, and he has previously stated that the tone and mythology of Alien: Earth would hew more closely to Ridley Scott’s original Alien (1979) than to prequels Prometheus (2012) or Alien: Covenant. Set two years before the first film, the eight-episode series will follow events in the not-so-distant future of 2120. While humanity does exist at this point, Earth in 2120 is not dominated by world governments and is instead represented by five mega-corporations vying for more influence, most of all over life itself, and the possibility of immortality at that.

The World of 2120: Five Mega-Corporations and the Rise of the Hybrids

The companies leading the charge are Prodigy, Weyland-Yutani, Lynch, Dynamic, and Threshold. This is the Corporate Era, the future in which cybernetic implants and robots are common, and cyborgs work alongside synthetics, humanoid robots powered by artificial intelligence. The nature of these entities would not change for the worse if a little more technology found its way into humanity, however. The Founder and CEO of the Prodigy Corporation was a young man at only 24 years old, but he is still one of the smartest in the business.

Prodigy will invent the cutting-edge concept of humanoid robots with actual human consciousness and will be the first to do so with one of their top scientists. Wendy is a prototype of their ultimate goal, not so much life itself but rather immortality. Wendy is special in that she is fully grown with “the body of an adult and the consciousness of a child.” Played by Sydney Chandler, Wendy will play the lead role in what humanity’s future may be like should it be allowed to continue on its current path without intervention or tragedy.

Prodigy’s research facility has enjoyed a long period of peace in Prodigy City until a routine flying schedule is interrupted when a Weyland-Yutani spaceship crashes into the city. One of Wendy’s creators was close by during the landing and discovered some unusual alien organisms in the ship, not dead but unknown species much deadlier than previous known species of xenomorphs have been in previous films. Wendy was one of the hybrids close to the crash and helped to transport the samples to the research lab and make contact with the unknown.

Alien: Earth’s Supporting Cast and the Details of Its Premiere

The revelation of Wendy’s existence and the potential future of artificial intelligence and human immortality would only be the first steps of what the future will bring when the next xenomorphs crash into Prodigy City and meet the first known hybrid human. Chandler’s lead performance is only one of many exciting performances viewers will see when Alien: Earth releases. Timothy Olyphant plays Kirsh, a synthetic, and Wendy’s synthetic trainer. He is almost fatherly in his care and guidance for Wendy.

Alex Lawther is C.J., a soldier with only his best interests in the lead-up to and time of the events of Alien: Earth. Samuel Blenkin plays Boy Kavalier, an uber-smart CEO with similar interests in Wendy as Prodigy does. Essie Davis is Dame Silvia, a patriarchal leader with an agenda that very much meshes with the world of synthetics Prodigy has created and hopes to control. Other cast members include Adarsh Gourav as Slightly, Kit Young as Tootles, David Rysdahl as Arthur, Babou Ceesay as Morrow, Jonathan Ajayi as Smee, Erana James as Curly, Lily Newmark as Nibs, Diem Camille as Siberian, and Adrian Edmondson as Atom Eins.

FX and Hulu released the short teaser for the upcoming series in January during the NFC Championship game in a surprise bit of marketing and brand-building that left everyone more curious about the full show than anyone could have anticipated at the time. The teaser itself, which can now be viewed below, is completely from a xenomorph’s point of view. The brief window shows a massive corridor the xenomorph is running through with ship controls and panels all around it before the interior of the spacecraft becomes illuminated, and a geostationary trajectory for the large planet Earth comes into view. The craft then plummets through space and the same corridors, but there is no window as to what these events all mean.

Alien: Earth will be streaming exclusively on FX and Hulu when it premieres on August 12.