Noah Hawley had delivered some fantastic television with shows like Legion and Fargo, and now he’s going to be dabbling in Ridley Scott’s iconic IP with Alien: Earth.
The series is set to hit FX this August, and we have a new trailer that looks just like it was a spinoff to the original 1979 Alien movie. Check this out:
Here’s the official description for the series:
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.
Though recent properties like Alien: Romulus have embraced more of the horror elements of the story, it does look like Earth is going to be tackling more of the existential themes that Prometheus was going for—what with the character of Wendy being a human put into a synthetic body.
Besides the Xenomorph, it also looks like there are going to be other creatures that will be introduced in the series. It’s possible that these were all just grown out of experiments with the Xenomorph, and our poor characters are just going to be subject to whatever punishment the humans on the ship had summoned for playing god.
Admittedly, the Alien franchise had been in a slump since Covenant, but Romulus was great, and this show looks pretty amazing as well. I’m just hoping that it keeps to the more philosophical themes because I don’t need to watch hours of a series of just aliens murdering people brutally one by one.
Watch out for Alien: Earth when it comes to FX on Aug. 12.
