It’s a great time to be an ALIEN fan. A brand new trailer was released on Thursday for the highly anticipated FX’s Alien: Earth.
This is absolutely brilliant, especially the final shot – what a great trailer. Can’t wait for August 12!
In an interview with Collider, creator Noah Hawley and executive producer and director Dana Gonzales had a ton of new info about the series:
“I think we designed something that is very photographable and scary and detailed. I don’t know if some of the older movies had some of the stunt techniques that we have now, the wirework, and the fact that we can kind of fly the Xeno around and stuff like that. So it’s not so much just coming out and scaring you and having that kind of jump scare. It’s literally flying through the air. It’s chasing. There’s a lot that supports the fact that you see it, and I don’t know if those other films had that.”
While the Alien franchise has featured some top-tier visual effects over the years and Alien: Earth does involve CG in post-production, Gonzales made a point to emphasize, “We don’t have any CG Xenomorph. It’s 100% real.” He continued:
“And the Facehuggers we have, they’re all real. I don’t know how many we have, but we have many Facehuggers that do different things. So there are mostly real creatures. I think [it’s] the fact that Wētā built these incredible characters that do several things really well that we can see them longer. Even the eggs are quite sophisticated, and we can show them. I think that’s gonna be the strength of the show, especially to have eight hours of that compared to an hour and a half movie and, like you said, four minutes. I don’t know our running time of creatures, but it’s going to be quite a bit.”
“There’s a lot of Xenomorph activity going on wall-to-wall.” He also teased, “Two and 3, I can tell you, are massive episodes. One, 2 and 3 together are going to be unbelievable.”
While Gonzales wouldn’t go as far as giving us a Xenomorph count for Alien: Earth, he did promise, “We’re seeing more Xenomorph than any of these movies.” He continued:
“All the movies, if you really study them, are like, 20 frame, two seconds, they show the Xenomorph. We have huge sequences where all you’re seeing is the Xenomorph.
In addition to showing more Xenomorph, Hawley emphasized another overall goal he and the team had when incorporating the iconic creatures into their story:
“I am trying to re-mystify Alien. So much of what made that first movie and the second movie so horrifying was that every time you thought you knew what the lifecycle of this creature was, it just got worse. It was like, okay, it’s an egg, and this giant crab comes out and grabs your face, and you think, ‘I’m out.’ Then it’s like, ‘No, I’m not done.’ Now, the giant crab lays another egg inside of you that then bursts out of your chest, and you’re like, ‘Okay, game over.’ Then it’s like, ‘No, now it grows to be 10 feet tall.’ Then James Cameron added, ‘Well, who’s laying those eggs?’ But you’re never going to get an audience to be surprised by that again, and so I’ve tried to come up with ways that the show returns that sense of, ‘What’s going to happen next? That’s so gross!’”
Check out the recently updated website too – with new Immersive Content: https://www.fxnetworks.com/shows/alien-earth/immersive-content
When the mysterious deep space research vessel USCSS Maginot crash-lands on Earth, “Wendy” (Sydney Chandler) and a ragtag group of tactical soldiers make a fateful discovery that puts them face-to-face with the planet’s greatest threat in FX’s Alien: Earth.
In the year 2120, the Earth is governed by five corporations: Prodigy, Weyland-Yutani, Lynch, Dynamic and Threshold. In this Corporate Era, cyborgs (humans with both biological and artificial parts) and synthetics (humanoid robots with artificial intelligence) exist alongside humans. But the game is changed when the wunderkind Founder and CEO of Prodigy Corporation unlocks a new technological advancement: hybrids (humanoid robots infused with human consciousness). The first hybrid prototype named “Wendy” marks a new dawn in the race for immortality. After Weyland-Yutani’s spaceship collides into Prodigy City, “Wendy” and the other hybrids encounter mysterious life forms more terrifying than anyone could have ever imagined.
Led by Chandler, the series showcases an expansive international cast, which includes Timothy Olyphant (“Kirsh”), Alex Lawther (“Hermit”), Samuel Blenkin (“Boy Kavalier”), Babou Ceesay (“Morrow”), Adrian Edmondson (“Atom Eins”), David Rysdahl (“Arthur Sylvia”), Essie Davis (“Dame Sylvia”), Lily Newmark (“Nibs”), Erana James (“Curly”), Adarsh Gourav (“Slightly”), Jonathan Ajayi (“Smee”), Kit Young (“Tootles”), Diêm Camille (“Siberian”), Moe Bar-El (“Rashidi”) and Sandra Yi Sencindiver (“Yutani”).
FX’s Alien: Earth is created for television and executive produced by Peabody and Emmy® Award-winning Noah Hawley. Ridley Scott, David W. Zucker, Joseph Iberti, Dana Gonzales and Clayton Krueger also serve as executive producers. Alien: Earth is produced by FX Productions.
