Overview

• FX, Hulu and Disney+ will debut the eight-episode series on August 12, 2025, marking the franchise’s first live-action television outing
• Set in 2120 Earth controlled by five rival megacorporations, the show follows cyborgs, synthetics and human-synthetic hybrids investigating five alien lifeforms aboard the crashed USCSS Maginot Wētā Workshop built every creature on set, delivering extended, wire-assisted Xenomorph sequences and other practical aliens without any CGI
• Noah Hawley said COVID shutdowns and the 2023 writers’ and actors’ strikes granted extra months for weekly workshops and editing to refine tone and narrative
• Timothy Olyphant leads the cast as a synthetic operative alongside Sydney Chandler and Essie Davis, with executive production from Ridley Scott and FX’s team