New Alien: Earth Trailer Emerges Online, Reveals Xenomorph Design and Call-Back to Ridley Scott’s Iconic 1979 Horror Film

A new Alien: Earth trailer has emerged online, offering fans their best look yet at the upcoming TV series.

The trailer, revealed on the @CineGeekNews X/Twitter account, below, was first shown at Disney's 2025 Annual Meeting of Shareholders. It shows the desperate survivors of a space ship devastated by a Xenomorph, and on a course for Earth.

A new Special Look Trailer for ‘ALIEN: EARTH’ has been released.#AlienEarth hits Disney+ this Summer! pic.twitter.com/tWVeFJRwtT— The Cine Geek (@CineGeekNews) March 22, 2025

The trailer shows off the new Xenomorph design, but is perhaps most striking for revealing just how close Alien: Earth’s aesthetic matches that of Ridley Scott’s iconic 1979 horror original. The scene is set inside a MU/TH/UR control room that looks nearly identical to the one in the Nostromo. It was there, of course, that Ripley discovered the true horror of the crew’s situation.

In the Alien: Earth trailer, a desperate crew member pleads for help, banging on the sealed door as the Xenomorph gets to work. Morrow, played by Babou Ceesay, seems uninterested in her plight, reporting that the “specimens are loose,” declaring the crew dead, and setting the ship’s impact point as Earth. We then see six soldiers make their way towards something, presumably the crashed ship. I imagine things do not go well for them.

The trailer sparks plenty of questions. Does Morrow survive? What was his (its?) motivation? Did any other crew members survive? Was anyone left impregnated by the Xenomorph? And how exactly are those soldiers inevitably killed?

This all sets up the premise of Alien: Earth, which sees a mysterious space vessel (the one we see in the trailer) crash-land on Earth, with a young woman (Sydney Chandler) and the aforementioned ragtag group of tactical soldiers making “a fateful discovery that puts them face-to-face with the planet’s greatest threat.”

FX’s Alien series is set in 2120, well after Prometheus and just two years before Alien and the unfortunate events that befell the crew of the Nostromo. Because of this setting within the Alien timeline, fans have speculated that Alien: Earth may depict the Nostromo leaving Earth, or reveal how evil megacorp Weyland-Yutani found out about the Xenomorphs. As a reference point, the recently released interquel Alien: Romulus takes place between Alien and Aliens.

In January last year, showrunner Noah Hawley explained why he is not using the backstory provided in Prometheus for Alien: Earth, saying he likes the "retro-futurism" of the original films. Hawley said he spoke to Alien chief Ridley Scott about "many, many elements" of the Alien series, including its ties to the prequels, but ultimately decided to cut loose and move away from the bioweapon backstory because he preferred the lore of the original films.

FX's Alien: Earth hits Hulu in summer 2025. Alien: Romulus 2 is also in the works.

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