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Alien: Earth Overhauls Franchise Canon With Hybrid Heroine and New Alien Species

Hawley rejects Scott’s prequel mythology in favor of a parallel narrative on a corporate-ruled 2120 Earth.

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Overview

  • The series premieres August 12 on FX and Hulu as the Alien franchise’s first television prequel.
  • It abandons plot elements from Prometheus and Covenant to run concurrently with the upcoming film Alien: Romulus.
  • The story unfolds on a flooded 2120 Earth reeling from climate collapse under the control of rival megacorporations.
  • Sydney Chandler stars as Wendy, the franchise’s inaugural human-synthetic hybrid, while Timothy Olyphant plays Kirsh, a cyborg bent on advancing post-human evolution.
  • Behind-the-scenes footage unveils new alien species beyond the Xenomorph, including a tentacled eyeball and a centipede-like creature recovered from a crashed Weyland-Yutani vessel.