EARTH Teaser Reveals New Xenomorph Footage and an Exciting Timeline Change

We got our first look at some footage from Alien: Earth via a Disney+ promo last week, and FX/Hulu has now released a new teaser and poster for Noah Hawley’s highly anticipated series.

The promo only features a few brief images of what has been described as a “new race” of Xenomorph, but it confirms the show’s summer 2025 premiere date, while also revealing a significant change to the previously established timeline.

We had been led to believe that the series would be set a full three decades before Ridley Scott’s Alienbut this teaser reveals that it will actually take place in the year 2120 – just two years prior to the events of the original film.

We’re not sure how significant this will turn out to be, but is there a chance we could see some sort of retcon? After all, if an alien ship with Xenos on board crashed on Earth a few years before Ripley and the crew of the Nostromo set off on their ill-fated mission, we’re pretty sure they would have heard about it.

Check out the new teaser and poster below, along with a more detailed synopsis.

“When a mysterious spacecraft crashes on Earth, a young woman (Sydney Chandler) and a group of tactical soldiers make a fateful discovery that brings them face to face with the planet’s greatest threat. As members of the rescue crew search for survivors among the wreckage, they encounter mysterious predatory forms more terrifying than they could have ever imagined.When this new threat is unlocked, the search team must fight for survival, and what they choose to do with this discovery, can change planet Earth as they know it.”

While talking to Deadline on the red carpet of this year’s Emmy Awards, Hawley teased a “nice” new take on Alien.

“There is something about seeing a Xenomorph in the wild wilderness of Earth with your own eyes. It’s really chilling to think that it’s moving here among us, and so I can’t tell you under what circumstances you’ll see it, but you’ll see it—and you’ll lock your door that night. What was really fun for me was really engaging with the creature, bringing some of my own thoughts to the design without touching the silhouette, because it’s sacred.”

“But some of the elements that we know, whatever the host is, inform what the final being is,” he added. “I just wanted to play a little to make it as scary as it should be.”

It doesn’t sound like this new creature design will deviate also much from the original, but Hawley’s comments certainly suggest we’ll see a Face hugger bond with a non-human host.

This has only happened once before in the franchise (unless you count the Proto-Xeno that hatched from the Engineer in Prometheus), when Aliens 3 introduced the divisive “dog-buster” (even though it was a bull in the Assembly Cut), so it will be very interesting to find out what Hawley has in store here.