Uncover the surprise of our planet earlier than it’s too late.
FX has launched a brand new teaser trailer and poster for Noah Hawley’s Alien sequence Alien: Earth, in celebration of Earth Day. It sounds just like the teaser is narrated by Neil deGrasse Tyson.
IGN has additionally launched a “Alien: Earth” World Information, which is an interactive marketing campaign for the sequence that “gives followers of the acclaimed sci-fi horror franchise an unique have a look at the FX-Hulu sequence coming this summer time.”
The marketing campaign will into this yr’s Alien Day on Saturday, April 26, and it’s a place arrange for followers to search out unique data and teasers for Alien: Earth, together with a video sequence “chronicling the gestation of a Xenomorph.” The primary of these movies is already accessible at present.
Within the sequence: “When a mysterious area vessel crash-lands on Earth, a younger lady (Sydney Chandler) and a ragtag group of tactical troopers make a fateful discovery that places them face-to-face with the planet’s biggest menace.
“As members of the crash restoration crew seek for survivors among the many wreckage, they encounter mysterious predatory life varieties extra terrifying than they might have ever imagined.
“With this new menace unlocked, the search crew should struggle for survival and what they select to do with this discovery might change planet Earth as they understand it.”
The story is ready three many years earlier than the occasions of Ridley Scott’s 1979 basic Alien and some years earlier than Prometheus. The sequence will discover the characters “caught in a battle with the start of synthetic intelligence and the competitors amongst builders and customers.”
Hawley beforehand stated of the story: “It is set on Earth of the long run. At this second, I describe that as Edison versus Westinghouse versus Tesla. Somebody’s going to monopolize electrical energy. We simply do not know which one it’s.”
He continued: “Within the films, we have now this Weyland-Yutani Company, which is clearly additionally growing synthetic intelligence-but what if there are different corporations making an attempt to take a look at immortality differently, with cyborg enhancements or transhuman downloads? Which of these applied sciences goes to win?”
This sequence will mix “each the timeless horror of the primary Alien movie with the continuous motion of the second, it’s going to be a scary thrill trip that can blow folks again of their seats.“
Hawley additionally stated: “There’s one thing about seeing a Xenomorph within the wilds of Earth with your personal eyes. That’s really chilling to consider it shifting right here amongst us, and so I can’t inform you underneath what circumstances you’ll see that, however you’ll see it — and also you’re going to lock your door that evening.”
He added: “What was actually enjoyable for me was to actually have interaction with the creature, deliver a few of my very own ideas to the design whereas not touching the silhouette, as a result of that’s sacrosanct.
“However a number of the parts as we all know, regardless of the host is, informs what the ultimate creature is. I simply needed to mess around somewhat bit to make it as scary accurately.”
The present additionally stars Alex Lawther (The Finish of the F*cking World) because the male lead, a soldier named CJ, with Samuel Blenkin (Black Mirror) as one other foremost character named Boy Kavalier, a CEO. Further forged members embody Essie Davis (Miss Fisher’s Homicide Mysteries) as Dame Silvia, and Adarsh Gourav (The White Tiger) as Barely.
Alien: Earth shall be launched in 2025.