The FX Alien TV show news has been slow since its announcement, but the move to the small screen is beginning to take shape in Alien: Earth. The long-running horror/sci-fi franchise Alien has thus far been exclusive to the big screen, with the Xenomorphs having starred in eight motion pictures to date. Beginning in 1979 with Ridley Scott's Alien and continuing through to Scott's prequel Alien: Covenant in 2017, the series has a long and rich history — and its next big leap will be to the small screen with Noah Hawley's Alien: Earth on FX.

Shortly after acquiring 20th Century Fox in 2019, Disney announced plans to create a new installment in the Alien movie franchise. While a new movie did eventually take shape, the studio also made it known that it intended to bring the Alien mythology to TV for the first time. The announcement came in 2020, along with news that Fargo's Noah Hawley will act as showrunner. Taking the franchise in a fresh new direction, Alien: Earth is already shaping up to be the most original installment since the 1979 original.

Alien: Earth Latest News

More Teasers Arrive For The Alien TV Show

With much of the show still shrouded in mystery despite its looming release in 2025, the latest news arrives in the form of more teasers for Alien: Earth. Released on Alien Day, the first teaser features narration which explains that a ship has collected five different alien species from around the galaxy. The camera closes in on the cages as the monsters writhe and jump in silhouette. Finally, a Xenomorph climbs over the cages before leaping at the camera. The teaser ends with an exterior shot of a ship beginning to crash through Earth's atmosphere.

The second teaser is much longer and shows the gestation of an alien creature from its first cell all the way to its eventual emergence from an egg. The gruesome being continues to grow even as the ship begins to wake up from hibernation, and a computer screen is shown analyzing the creature's DNA. The teaser ends with the computer sounding an alarm about the unknown species before the Weyland-Yutani logo appears on-screen.

Alien: Earth Production Status

The FX Alien TV Series Is Coming In 2025

No Alien: Earth release date has been announced yet, though Noah Hawley's comments revealed he and FX are aiming for a 2025 window. Multiple pandemic-fueled delays, as well as the need to fit Fargo season 5 into Hawley's schedule, have meant a shifting shooting window, but Hawley has confirmed that work on his Alien series is "going great," albeit slowly.

With much of the show under wraps, it could be that creative tinkering is still happening behind-the-scenes.

Now, the series is gunning for a summer 2025 release window, though specifics are still under wraps. It's unclear why a release date is still so elusive, especially since Hulu hopes to deliver the show so soon. With so much still unknown about the show, it could be that creative tinkering is still happening behind-the-scenes.

The Alien TV show began filming in early 2024.

Alien: Earth Cast Details

Timothy Olyphant Plays A Replicant

The Alien TV show cast its first actor with Sydney Chandler ing the series in May 2023. Chandler will be playing Wendy, a woman with the body of an adult but the mind of a child. Timothy Olyphant is also slated to appear in the show as a synth named Kirsh who is Wendy's mentor and might have a connection to the synth, David, from Prometheus. Also, Foundation star Sandra Yi Sencindiver has been cast as an unnamed higher-up at the Weyland-Yutani Corporation.

There are a ton of other names attached to the series, but their characters are being left mysterious for now. The franchise hasn't really shown much of Earth yet, so Alien: Earth's cast is understandably large to accommodate an entire planet's worth of stories.

The known cast of Alien: Earth includes:

Alien: Earth Story Details

Weyland-Yutani Is Up To Their Old Tricks

showrunner Noah Hawley explained that the Xenomorph will change depending on "whatever the host is."

Relatively little is currently known about the Alien: Earth story, with one confirmed detail being that it will be set on Earth in the distant future. Setting the story on future Earth appears to be Hawley's way of refocusing what the franchise has been about thus far. Throughout all the Alien movies, the Weyland-Yutani Corporation has been a consistent antagonist almost as bad as Xenomorphs. Relentlessly pursuing immortality primarily through the creation of artificial intelligence (and at the expense of real human life), the company totally dominates deep space in the Alien franchise.

The basic premise of the show is that a ship full of intergalactic creatures, including the Xenomorph, crashes down on Earth. Presumably, this will unleash alien havoc on the planet, and also bring the terror to terra firma for the first time. Weyland-Yutani originally dispatched the aforementioned crashed ship, so the company will likely stop at nothing to recover their precious specimens.

Hawley's Alien: Earth will reportedly explore some of Weyland-Yutani's competitors, suggesting that there are other, probably equally nefarious, means and methods being tested to unlock the technological secret to eternal life. It's been confirmed that the Xenomorphs will appear on Earth in the new spinoff, and will potentially even be loosed from their corporate cages to stalk unsuspecting humans. In an interview with Deadline, showrunner Noah Hawley explained that the Xenomorph will change depending on "whatever the host is."

Alien: Earth Trailers

Watch The Teasers Below

Even before the show has earned an official release date, FX has released a creepy teaser trailer for Alien: Earth. Living up to its name, the teaser opens with a shot of Earth as seen from space as it slowly dissolves into a reflection on the shiny skull of a Xenomorph that lunges at the camera. The teaser closes with a title card that reveals the show will arrive in 2025.

FX revealed a second teaser in November 2024 which clarified more of where Alien: Earth fits in the franchise timeline. The short trailer opens by revealing that the show will be set in 2120, before fading into a shot of the Xenomorph when growls and lunges. Though the teaser gives away little, it more firmly places the show in the larger Alien universe.

A third teaser trailer for Alien: Earth arrived in January 2025, and it explains the key impetus for the series. Seen from the perspective of a Xenomorph face-hugger, the camera scurries along an abandoned ship corridor as alarms play, and a voice warns of a "containment breach". The creature reaches a porthole window and the perspective shifts to outside the ship, where it is revealed that it is beginning to crash down on Earth. While many details aren't known, the teaser explains how the monsters make it to Earth.

FX dropped two more teasers for Alien: Earth in April 2025, the first of which explains that the ship is carrying five alien specimens from the darkest corners of the galaxy. The trailer ends with the Xenomorph crawling over the cages before leaping at the camera. The second teaser shows the gestation period of an alien creature from a single cell, and also shows some interiors from the doomed ship.