Fargo honcho Noah Hawley’s long-gestating series is just about ready to burst out.
I figured we’d be getting something on Alien: Earth about now. The two Predator trailers leading up to it primed the pump, and besides – why waste Alien Day? April 26 – 4/26 in the American style, referencing the franchise’s planet LV-426 – saw FX/20th Century fang out the briefest of teasers for the upcoming series. Behold:
So, there you go. We also have a quick official synopsis:
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.
Set two years before the events of 1979’s Alien, the eight-episode series comes to us from Noah Hawley, who gave us the way-better-than-we-could-have-expected Fargo TV series and the criminally underseen X-Men-adjacent Legion. He’s been working on it for a while, too. News of the series first broke in 2019, and Hawley’s involvement was announced in 2020.
Sydney Chandler, who was a pretty decent Chrissie Hynde in Pistol, stars as Wendy, the aforementioned young woman, who apparently has “the body of an adult and consciousness of a child”, which is certainly a choice. Timothy Olyphant is Kirsh, her synthetic mentor, because what’s an Alien show without a robot? Alex Lawther is CJ, one of the ragtag soldiers; Samuel Blenkin is CEO Boy Kavalier; Essie Davis is Dame Silvia; Adarsh Gourav is Slightly; Kit Young is Tootles; and David Rysdahl, Babou Ceesay, Jonathan Ajayi, Erana James, Lily Newmark, Diêm Camille, and Adrian Edmondson round out the regular cast.
No firm release date for Alien: Earth yet, though. The best we can do is a vague “Summer 2025 on Hulu” which, translated into Australian, is Winter 2025 on Disney+.
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