Disney+ debuts new footage from Goosebumps: The Vanishing and Alien: Earth

Xenomorphs have arrived on Earth for the first time ever in the Alien franchise, and David Schwimmer really wants to make sure no one goes in his basement in the newly released Goosebumps: The Vanishing footage shared by Disney+ previewing the streamer's 2025 slate.

Alien: Earth marks a few firsts for the long-running franchise started with Ridley Scott's 1979 classic, namely that it's the first official television series set in the sci-fi universe and, as mentioned, marks the creatures coming to planet Earth. What makes it particularly intriguing is that Alien: Earth is set before the 1979 film, three decades prior, to be exact.

What could that mean for Earth in the Alien franchise? Might Xenomorphs still be roaming around somewhere? Or do they succeed in stopping the threat? We'll have to wait until next year when Noah Hawley's series makes its debut on FX to find out.

The brief footage teased in the video embedded above doesn't give much away beyond showing a glimpse of star Sydney Chandler, who plays a Poor Things-like character named Wendy, that Deadline describes as a woman "with the body of an adult, but the brain and consciousness of a child." The narration also tells us that a returning ship carries "collected specimens from a faraway moon, monsters."

On the Goosebumps side, viewers are privy to a clip showing a monster grabbing for a young woman and Schwimmer's character warning that the basement is a no-trespassing zone.

Goosebumps: The Vanishing is the second season of Disney's live-action supernatural horror series based on R.L. Stine's iconic book series. Instead of each episode centering on a different story, as in the 1995 television series, the Disney+ show changes its storyline per season to create a serialized anthology. The sophomore season will follow teenage siblings delving into the mysterious disappearance of five teenagers who vanished in 1994.

Goosebumps: The Vanishing is set to premiere on January 10, 2025, while Alien: Earth does not yet have a release date but seems likely to be on track for an early 2025 debut.