Alien: Earth gets a teaser trailer and a Summer 2025 premiere window

TheAlienfranchise is set to continue on the small screen with an “FX on Hulu” TV series calledAlien: Earth,fromFargocreator Noah Hawley. The show began filming in Thailand last year, then had to halt production after a month due to the actors strike. Filming resumed earlier this year and wrapped a few months ago – and now a teaser trailer has made its way online to let us know that the show has aSummer 2025premiere window! You can check it out in the embed above.

One of the first things we heard about theAlienTV series – and one of the most surprising things about it – is that it will be set on Earth (thus the title), a couple of decades before the events of the first movie. FX chairman John Landgraf has said the show will take place “right near the end of this century.” According to Deadline, the setting puts it “a few years beforePrometheus,”which Hawley has previously said hehas chosen not to acknowledge.Hawley decided to set the show on Earthbecause“The alien stories are always trapped… Trapped in a prison, trapped in a space ship. I thought it would be interesting to open it up a little bit so that the stakes of ‘What happens if you can’t contain it?’ are more immediate.“Variety noted that theAlienTV series will “explore the formation of the Weyland-Yutani Corporation and the race to create android life.”

Alien: Earthhas the following synopsis:When a mysterious space vessel crash-lands on Earth, a young woman (Sydney Chandler) and a ragtag group of tactical soldiers make a fateful discovery that puts them face-to-face with the planet’s greatest threat.

Chandler’sAliencharacter is the meta-human Wendy, who has the body of an adult, but the brain and consciousness of a child. Her co-stars include Essie Davis (The Babadook) as Dame Silvia, Alex Lawther (The End of the F*cking World) as a soldier named CJ, Samuel Blenkin (Black Mirror) as a CEO named Boy Kavalier, Adarsh Gourav (The White Tiger) as a character named Slightly, Kit Young (Shadow and Bone) as a character called Tootles, and Timothy Olyphant (Justified) Kirsh, a synth who acts as a mentor and trainer for Wendy. Babou Ceesay (Guerrilla), Jonathan Ajayi (Wonder Woman 1984), Erana James (The Wilds), Lily Newmark (Sex Education), Diêm Camille (Washington Black), Adrian Edmondson (The Young Ones), Moe Bar-El (The Peripheral), and David Rysdahl (Fargoseason 5) are in the cast as well, but no details have been revealed about their characters.Sandra Yi SencindiverofFoundationwill be playing “a senior member of the Weyland-Yutani Corporation” in multiple episodes, and her role could be expanded as the series continues.

What did you think of theAlien: Earthteaser trailer? Will you be watching this show when it premieres next summer? Let us know by leaving a comment below.