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For the first time ever, the Alien universe is crash-landing onto the small screen.
In the wake of 2024’s Alien: Romulus, a seventh film entry in the storied franchise that began with Ridley Scott’s 1979 sci-fi thriller classic Alien, Fargo creator Noah Hawley’s new TV series Alien: Earth will see the long-running horror saga touch down on a world it’s never explored before: our very own planet Earth.
“The thing with Alien is that it’s not just a great monster movie. It’s the story of humanity trapped between its primordial parasitic past and its AI future, and they’re both trying to kill us. So, there’s nowhere to go,” Hawley has said of the inspiration for Earth, which is also produced by Scott. “It’s really a story of does humanity deserve to survive? Does humanity’s arrogance in thinking that we’re no longer food and its arrogance in creating these AI beings who we think will do what we tell them—but ultimately might lose their mind—is there a way out?”
The first two episodes of Earth premiere Aug. 12 at 8 p.m. ET on FX, with subsequent installments releasing every Tuesday through Sept. 23. New episodes will be available to stream on Hulu in the U.S. and Disney+ internationally.
Here’s how Alien: Earth fits into the overall Alien timeline.
How Alien: Earth connects to Alien
While Romulus was set in the year 2142—right smack in between the events of Alien, which takes place in 2122, and the 1986 James Cameron-directed sequel Aliens, set in 2179—Earth serves as a prequel series that takes place in 2120, two years before the events of the original movie.
The show unfolds in a not-so-distant future where five rival corporations—Prodigy, Weyland-Yutani, Lynch, Dynamic and Threshold—effectively govern the Earth. As we learn from an opening transmission in Episode 1, it’s a moment in time when the race for immortality has evolved to take three different forms. There are…
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