Earth’ Trailer Adds Even More Alien Monsters

In the Alien movies, one killer species is more than enough for humanity to deal with. Actually, it’s almost always too much. Most everyone usually dies. But, in Alien: Earth, which comes to FX on August 12, it’s not just that iconic xenomorph the characters will have to deal with. Four other killer monsters have crash-landed on our planet too. Let the fun begin.

From the mind of Noah Hawley, Alien: Earth takes a whole new look at the franchise made famous by the likes of Ridley Scott and James Cameron. It shows a story of a ship that crashes on Earth and the aftermath of that. But that’s in service of a larger story about scientific attempts to extend and improve life, which leads to one company transferring the consciousness of sick children into adult robot bodies. Yeah. It’s a lot. And you can see it all in this brand-new trailer.

This trailer does a pretty good job of setting up how all of these things come together. In the show, Earth is undergoing a scientific race to extend human life. That’s led to the creation of cyborgs, which are “humans with both biological and artificial parts,” synthetics, which are “humanoid robots with artificial intelligence,” and now, thanks to a company called Prodigy, hybrids, which are “humanoid robots infused with human consciousness.” That’s who Sydney Chandler plays. She’s Wendy, the leader of a group of hybrids who have no idea what they’re getting into when they are sent in to explore the crash of the Weyland Yutani deep space research vessel USCSS Maginot. The Maginot has acquired and returned with five different alien species for its parent company, and, well, for some reason the ship crashed. What could’ve possibly gone wrong?

We are super pumped for Alien: Earth and we hope you are too. We’ll have much more on the show in the coming weeks, including full coverage of the presence at San Diego Comic-Con.

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