Xenomorphs on Earth: Bold new teaser for upcoming Alien FX series

Almost 50 years later, the iconic sci-fi horror franchise Alien is still going strong. The latest film in the series, Alien: Romulus, just quietly became the highest-grossing horror film of 2024, and there's more in store for the Xenomorphs and the poor humans forced to come into contact with them for our entertainment.

This week kicked off with the official teaser for the upcoming FX series Alien: Earth, created by award-winning Fargo showrunner Noah Hawley. As the title suggests, the show will be an earthbound series, a franchise first. Previous films have taken place in outer space, spaceships, derelict vessels, and other planets.

It sounds like Alien: Earth takes a more grounded and straightforward approach, with a group of scientists contending with the aftermath of a crashed spaceship and what it contains. Set 30 years before the original movie, Alien: Earth is a prequel show described as a "big imaginative reimagining" of the franchise, per Deadline.

The teaser is pretty simple, just showing a close-up of Earth that is then revealed to be reflected by a Xenomorph's super shiny head. As the camera pans out, we hear a horrifying scream and see the alien's terrifying mouth brimming with razor-sharp teeth and monster drool. The show's tagline is, fittingly, "the perfect planet for the perfect organism." If you saw Alien: Romulus in theaters, you might have been lucky enough to have seen the teaser early as it played during the previews in select showings.

FX President John Landgraf previously said that the network is leaning heavily into Hawley's series, which is intended to be "ongoing." Landgraf reportedly wants Hawley to write at least two seasons before moving forward on a potential sixth season of Fargo.

No release date has been announced for the series just yet, but we do know that it is expected to air in 2025 on FX and stream exclusively on Hulu. Alien: Earth stars Sydney Chandler, Alex Lawther, Samuel Blenkin, Essie Davis, Timothy Olyphant, and Adarsh Gourav.