New Alien: Earth Trailer Emerges Online, Reveals Xenomorph Design and Call-Back to Ridley Scott’s Iconic 1979 Horror Film

A caller Alien: Earth trailer has emerged online, offering fans their champion look yet astatine the upcoming TV series.

The trailer, revealed connected the @CineGeekNews X/Twitter account, below, was archetypal shown astatine Disney's 2025 Annual Meeting of Shareholders. It shows the hopeless survivors of a abstraction vessel devastated by a Xenomorph, and connected a people for Earth.

A caller Special Look Trailer for ‘ALIEN: EARTH’ has been released.#AlienEarth hits Disney+ this Summer! pic.twitter.com/tWVeFJRwtT

The trailer shows disconnected the caller Xenomorph design, but is possibly astir striking for revealing conscionable however adjacent Alien: Earth’s aesthetic matches that of Ridley Scott’s iconic 1979 fearfulness original. The country is acceptable wrong a MU/TH/UR power country that looks astir identical to the 1 successful the Nostromo. It was there, of course, that Ripley discovered the existent fearfulness of the crew’s situation.

In the Alien: Earth trailer, a hopeless unit subordinate pleads for help, banging connected the sealed doorway arsenic the Xenomorph gets to work. Morrow, played by Babou Ceesay, seems uninterested successful her plight, reporting that the “specimens are loose,” declaring the unit dead, and mounting the ship’s interaction constituent arsenic Earth. We past spot six soldiers marque their mode towards something, presumably the crashed ship. I ideate things bash not spell good for them.

The trailer sparks plentifulness of questions. Does Morrow survive? What was his (its?) motivation? Did immoderate different unit members survive? Was anyone near impregnated by the Xenomorph? And however precisely are those soldiers inevitably killed?

This each sets up the premise of Alien: Earth, which sees a mysterious abstraction vas (the 1 we spot successful the trailer) crash-land connected Earth, with a young pistillate (Sydney Chandler) and the aforementioned ragtag radical of tactical soldiers making “a fateful find that puts them face-to-face with the planet’s top threat.”

FX’s Alien bid is acceptable successful 2120, good aft Prometheus and conscionable 2 years earlier Alien and the unfortunate events that befell the unit of the Nostromo. Because of this mounting wrong the Alien timeline, fans person speculated that Alien: Earth whitethorn picture the Nostromo leaving Earth, oregon uncover however evil megacorp Weyland-Yutani recovered retired astir the Xenomorphs. As a notation point, the precocious released interquel Alien: Romulus takes spot betwixt Alien and Aliens.

In January past year, showrunner Noah Hawley explained wherefore helium is not utilizing the backstory provided successful Prometheus for Alien: Earth, saying helium likes the "retro-futurism" of the archetypal films. Hawley said helium spoke to Alien main Ridley Scott astir "many, galore elements" of the Alien series, including its ties to the prequels, but yet decided to chopped escaped and determination distant from the bioweapon backstory due to the fact that helium preferred the lore of the archetypal films.

FX's Alien: Earth hits Hulu successful summertime 2025. Alien: Romulus 2 is besides successful the works.

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