Earth Trailer Hints At New Lifeforms Being Launched

It’s uncommon to see a tagline so completely summarize the center of a present like, “We had been safer in house.” FX’s sci-fi horror sequence Alien: Earth has put out its first full trailer, and people two-and-a-half minutes set this up as a contender for the scariest present of 2025.

The TV sequence is ready earlier than the authentic Alien movies, and the trailer reveals the early days of humanity’s deadly curiosity round otherworldly creatures. Down on Earth, we see an unidentified spacecraft crash land in Prodigy Metropolis in 2120, two years earlier than the occasions of the unique Alien movie, and also you already know issues are going to be dangerous. Curly haired Boy Kavalier (Samuel Blenkin), the CEO of an as-yet unidentified company (who might or not it’s?!), desires no matter is on that ship.

We study that the vessel is carrying 5 totally different lifeforms from the darkest elements of the universe, one in every of them wanting peculiarly just like the jellyfish-like metroid predators from the online game universe. We see this alien species use its terribly sturdy tentacles to tear out somebody’s eyes, then management their physique after taking on their mind. That creepiness is cunningly contrasted in one other sequence the place we see a sick little one, Wendy, have her human consciousness transferred into an artificial grownup physique (Sydney Chandler).

We’ve had a number of teases for Noah Hawley’s (Fargo, Legion) method to the Alien universe over the past 12 months, however this primary correct trailer’s revelation that there are 5 totally different lifeforms on that ship might counsel we’ll be assembly extraterrestrial abominations by no means earlier than seen within the Alien universe.

Alien: Earth is because of arrive on FX and Hulu on August 12, and if the present can sustain the tempo of what’s promised on this trailer, we may very well be set for one of many scariest, most thrilling applications of the 12 months.

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