The New Alien: Earth Teasers Create Scary New Life

April 26 is Alien Day, and to celebrate, FX released a caller brace of videos for Alien: Earth that spell astir teasing what’s successful store. (Spoiler: thing good!) Unlike prior ones, these are a small much explicit astir the show’s premise, though they doesn’t incorporate immoderate existent footage from the bid itself—just immoderate bully aged Alien creepiness and huffy subject that’d marque David proud.

In the first, labeled “Gestation,” we spot the technological commencement of…something that’s writhing astir successful a crate. Whatever it is, a laboratory terminal successful the vessel has labeled it a caller taxon whose familial worldly comes from an chartless source. Or rather, sources, plural: the 2nd video, “Crate,” features narration explaining Weyland-Yutani sent a vessel retired to cod “five antithetic beingness forms from the darkest corners of the universe, each 1 a unsocial deadly species.” Series creator Noah Hawley antecedently indicated we’d beryllium seeing immoderate caller Xenomorph variants, and “Crate” offers tiny glimpses astatine the parents of those incoming creations.

Alien: Earth takes spot successful 2120—two years earlier the archetypal Alien—after a Weyland-Yutani vessel has crashed connected humanity’s location planet. Unfortunately, a radical of soldiers spell astir investigating and observe immoderate nasty secrets inside. With the satellite astatine stake, the squad volition person to past each those beingness forms and the company’s ain agendas. The formed includes Sydney Chandler, Timothy Olyphant, Babou Ceesay, and Alex Lawther.

Look for Alien: Earth to hatch this summertime connected FX and FX connected Hulu.

Encounter the monsters within.#AlienEarthFX premieres this Summer connected FX | @hulu. pic.twitter.com/UyhOSosSpU

— IGN (@IGN) April 26, 2025

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