Overview

• The eight-episode first season premieres on Disney+ on August 13 with a double-episode launch followed by weekly releases.
• The story unfolds in 2120 after Prodigy’s USCSS Maginot crashes over the megacity Neu-Siam, releasing captured xenomorphs on Earth for the first time.
• Noah Hawley created and showruns the series for Disney+/FX, with Ridley Scott executive producing and Sydney Chandler starring as Wendy opposite Timothy Olyphant’s android mentor Kirsh.
• Early coverage highlights the series’ emphasis on social themes of corporate greed, identity and artificial intelligence alongside the franchise’s signature horror atmosphere transplanted to an Earth setting.
• A limited-source report indicates Hawley plans to omit the Prometheus prequels from continuity, though this has not been independently confirmed by the creative team.