- calendar_today August 31, 2025
New Trailer for Alien: Earth Teases Hybrid-Human Drama
FX and Hulu’s Alien: Earth prequel series is almost upon us. The project, which had a surprise first teaser release back in January, is still set to premiere on August 12, 2025, on Hulu and FX Max in the U.S., and will air in Australia on FX and in the U.K. on Hulu, and the streaming services have now unveiled one final trailer for the show before its release. To go with it, a full story synopsis has also been released, with this new trailer for Alien: Earth painting a picture of a show that is both chilling and existential. Part ethereal, almost contemplative imagery, and part old-school sci-fi horror, the trailer gives us glimpses of alien spacecrafts moving through the darkness of space, bodies on the floor of a dark hallway, humans covered in blood running for their lives, and then, in the background, the unmistakable shape of a familiar shadow. A xenomorph, hiding in the darkness.
Showrunner Noah Hawley, a very deliberate creator with an approach to tone that runs hot and cold, has previously said that the tone and mythos of Alien: Earth will sit more in line with the original Ridley Scott Alien (1979) than the two prequels, Prometheus (2012) and Alien: Covenant. So the eight-episode first series, set in the year 2120 (two years before the first film), is told in a near-future dystopia, where cutthroat mega corporations vie with each other to claim ownership of the most precious thing in the universe: Life, potentially even Immortality.
A Race for Immortality in a Corporate World
In the Alien: Earth timeline, by the year 2120 on Earth, not governments, but five mega corporations rule the world: Prodigy, Weyland-Yutani, Lynch, Dynamic, and Threshold. It’s known as the Corporate Era, a period in human history when cyborgs (humans who have had parts of themselves replaced with artificial parts) work beside synthetics (humansoid robots that use advanced AI to operate). But the status quo would soon change thanks to one of the five mega-corporations, Prodigy. The young Founder and CEO of the company, a scientific and business genius, was about to achieve the one thing that all the other corporations in the world were after: immortality.
Prodigy has developed humanoid robots called hybrids, which are the key to this new world, and in order to complete the formula for what this future race represents, one of them is created, “Wendy”, a hybrid prototype. Wendy, played by Sydney Chandler, is said to be “a small humanoid being with the body of an adult and the consciousness of a child.” As the trailer shows us, an alien spaceship crashes into the Prodigy city, and it isn’t long before Wendy and other hybrids are put in contact with other unknown alien organisms – creatures that will be much more dangerous than any humanity has seen before.
As for the rest of the cast, Timothy Olyphant plays Kirsh, a synthetic, and Wendy’s trainer, while Alex Lawther is CJ, a soldier. Samuel Blenkin is Boy Kavalier, CEO of a powerful corporation, while Essie Davis is Dame Silvia, and Adarsh Gourav is Slightly. Kit Young plays Tootles, David Rysdahl is Arthur, Babou Ceesay is Morrow, and Jonathan Ajayi is Smee. Erana James is Curly, Lily Newmark is Nibs, and Diem Camille is Siberian. Adrian Edmondson plays Atom Eins.
Teaser Trailer and Story Reveal
FX and Hulu teased their Alien: Earth project in a surprise way back in January, when they released a short teaser during the NFL’s AFC Championship game. The trailer was shot entirely from the POV of a xenomorph, and it showed the alien careering down the hallway of a spaceship as the space vehicle smashed toward Earth on a collision course. It was a deeply unsettling POV shot, but at the time it was released, we had no idea of the context of this moment, but it was enough to get fans going with theories.
Fast forward to last month, and the first full trailer for the Alien: Earth prequel series was dropped. It was a whole different animal, and it offered us more detail and context on the show. The trailer opened up with Wendy being created in the year 2120, on a remote location known as Neverland Research Island. As an alien spaceship crashes nearby, Wendy volunteers to collect its mysterious contents. However, instead of opportunity, she would find carnage. The wreckage is home to five alien life forms – five new, deadly, unknown species in true Alien fashion that would be taken back to a laboratory for study.
It’s a familiar setup for anyone familiar with the films, and it’s exactly what happens: human hubris meeting an apex predator. As this final trailer for Alien: Earth shows us, this show is going to be less action spectacle and more about the creeping dread, and Hawley and company’s approach to telling the story, through a cast of morally ambiguous characters and a careful eye for world-building, seems to be something more than your traditional monster movie. It leans into what made the original Alien so good, and has that feeling of claustrophobic horror mixed with moral and ethical questions to tease out an existential dread.
FX/Hulu has the science fiction action horror series Alien: Earth set to premiere on August 12 on Hulu and FX Max in the U.S., FX in Australia, and Hulu in the U.K.
