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Alien: Earth
Alien: Earth is an American science fiction horror television series created by Noah Hawley. It is the first television series in the Alien franchise and is set two years before the events of the 1979 film Alien. The series stars Sydney Chandler, Alex Lawther, Essie Davis, Samuel Blenkin, Babou Ceesay, Adarsh Gourav, and Timothy Olyphant in main roles.
Development for the series was reported to have begun in early 2019, with Ridley Scott attached to executive produce for FX on Hulu. It had started pre-production by April 2023, with Chandler cast in the lead role the following month, and further casting taking place from July to November that year. After principal photography was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, production began in July 2023 but was halted in August due to the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike. Filming resumed in April 2024 and ended in July that year.
Alien: Earth premiered on FX and FX on Hulu in the United States and on Disney+ internationally on August 12, 2025. In November 2025, the series was renewed for a second season. A release date for the second season has not been established, shooting has been anticipated to being in mid- to late-2026; the second season should also see Peter Dinklage joining the cast in an as yet unspecified role.
The opening of the first episode introduces the series' central premise: humanity's pursuit of immortality through three paths: cyborgs, humans enhanced with biomechatronic body parts; synthetics, fully artificial beings endowed with intelligence; and hybrids, synthetic bodies containing transferred human consciousness.
When the deep space research vessel USCSS Maginot crash-lands on Earth, a young hybrid woman named Wendy and a group of tactical soldiers make a discovery that puts them face-to-face with the planet's biggest threat.
In February 2019, Bloody Disgusting reported that two Alien television series were in development, one animated – Alien: Isolation – and one live-action, from Ridley Scott for the network FX on Hulu. In December 2020, as part of Disney's Investor Day presentation, the latter television series project was officially announced to be in development for the network, with Noah Hawley as showrunner and Scott as executive producer, being set on Earth in the near future.
On February 17, 2022, The Hollywood Reporter revealed that the series is a prequel taking place before the events of Alien (1979). Asked about his approach to adding the show to a franchise like Alien with consideration to established canon, Hawley himself confirmed that the series would be "its own thing" tied more into the style and mythology of the original 1979 film and its sequel Aliens (1986), intentionally excluding some plot and style elements introduced in some of the other Alien media, like the prequel films Prometheus (2012), and Alien: Covenant (2017). In April 2023, chairman of FX Productions, John Landgraf, stated that the series was in active pre-production. According to FX Entertainment president Gina Balian, the scale of the production of Alien: Earth was much bigger than that of the 2024 FX series Shōgun, whose budget has been reported as $250 million.
In September 2025, Hawley stated that work had not yet begun on a second season, but that conversations were ongoing. He mentioned that he was ready to begin immediately if The Walt Disney Company decided to renew the show and expected a renewal decision to be made "soon" after the airing of the season finale on September 23, 2025, once its viewership could be evaluated. On November 11, 2025, FX renewed the series for a second season.
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Alien: Earth
Alien: Earth is an American science fiction horror television series created by Noah Hawley. It is the first television series in the Alien franchise and is set two years before the events of the 1979 film Alien. The series stars Sydney Chandler, Alex Lawther, Essie Davis, Samuel Blenkin, Babou Ceesay, Adarsh Gourav, and Timothy Olyphant in main roles.
Development for the series was reported to have begun in early 2019, with Ridley Scott attached to executive produce for FX on Hulu. It had started pre-production by April 2023, with Chandler cast in the lead role the following month, and further casting taking place from July to November that year. After principal photography was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, production began in July 2023 but was halted in August due to the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike. Filming resumed in April 2024 and ended in July that year.
Alien: Earth premiered on FX and FX on Hulu in the United States and on Disney+ internationally on August 12, 2025. In November 2025, the series was renewed for a second season. A release date for the second season has not been established, shooting has been anticipated to being in mid- to late-2026; the second season should also see Peter Dinklage joining the cast in an as yet unspecified role.
The opening of the first episode introduces the series' central premise: humanity's pursuit of immortality through three paths: cyborgs, humans enhanced with biomechatronic body parts; synthetics, fully artificial beings endowed with intelligence; and hybrids, synthetic bodies containing transferred human consciousness.
When the deep space research vessel USCSS Maginot crash-lands on Earth, a young hybrid woman named Wendy and a group of tactical soldiers make a discovery that puts them face-to-face with the planet's biggest threat.
In February 2019, Bloody Disgusting reported that two Alien television series were in development, one animated – Alien: Isolation – and one live-action, from Ridley Scott for the network FX on Hulu. In December 2020, as part of Disney's Investor Day presentation, the latter television series project was officially announced to be in development for the network, with Noah Hawley as showrunner and Scott as executive producer, being set on Earth in the near future.
On February 17, 2022, The Hollywood Reporter revealed that the series is a prequel taking place before the events of Alien (1979). Asked about his approach to adding the show to a franchise like Alien with consideration to established canon, Hawley himself confirmed that the series would be "its own thing" tied more into the style and mythology of the original 1979 film and its sequel Aliens (1986), intentionally excluding some plot and style elements introduced in some of the other Alien media, like the prequel films Prometheus (2012), and Alien: Covenant (2017). In April 2023, chairman of FX Productions, John Landgraf, stated that the series was in active pre-production. According to FX Entertainment president Gina Balian, the scale of the production of Alien: Earth was much bigger than that of the 2024 FX series Shōgun, whose budget has been reported as $250 million.
In September 2025, Hawley stated that work had not yet begun on a second season, but that conversations were ongoing. He mentioned that he was ready to begin immediately if The Walt Disney Company decided to renew the show and expected a renewal decision to be made "soon" after the airing of the season finale on September 23, 2025, once its viewership could be evaluated. On November 11, 2025, FX renewed the series for a second season.