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Alien: Earth To Premiere In August, First Plot Details
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Alien: Earth officially has a premiere date, along with some of the first details on the series’ plot. Deadline reports that the Noah Hawley-created Alien TV series will premiere with two episodes on August 12th on FX and Hulu in the US, and on Disney+ internationally with new episodes following every week on Tuesdays at 8 PM.
The series, set two years before the events in the original Alien, is described as follows:
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 (Chandler), marks a new dawn in the race for immortality. After Weyland-Yutani’s spaceship collides with Prodigy City, Wendy and the other hybrids encounter mysterious life forms more terrifying than anyone could have ever imagined.
Hawley (Legion, Fargo) created the series and serves as showrunner and executive producer, as well as having directed the first episode. Ridley Scott is also on board as an executive producer. You can see some photos from the series below:
"The first hybrid prototype, Wendy, marks a new dawn in the race for immortality. After Weyland-Yutani’s ship collides with Prodigy City, Wendy and the other hybrids encounter mysterious life forms more terrifying than anyone could have ever imagined."#AlienEarth. August 12. pic.twitter.com/LzCQUcSeGm
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