After seeing the very first previews for Noah Hawley’s Alien: Earth at some of the openings for Alien: Romulus which was later released on FX Networks’ YouTube channel and the recent short footage that has been circulating from the recent Disney+ preview event in Brazil, we now finally have a longer teaser released.
The official poster for the series has also been released:
The most important piece of information is that we have a conclusive date when this series takes place. It is indeed set in 2120, two years before Alien and we can expect the series to air on Hulu in the summer of 2025. The soundscape of the teaser is very reminiscent of the original trailer for Alien. The tagline, along with the narration style unexpectedly evokes that infamous Alien 3 teaser trailer (On Earth, everyone can hear you scream).
The VFX overlay was very VCR inspired which gives more credence to Noah’s previous statements about preferring the Low-Fi Sci-Fi aesthetics of the films.
In the ‘blink and you’ll miss it’ jump cuts, we see an Alien egg opening, a frightened and screaming person, but also what seems to be an eye of an animal such as a cow, sheep or goat. Does this mean we can expect the first on screen appearance of Aliens form animal hosts since Alien 3? Only time will tell!
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But we'll see.
They don't really need to
Just differentiate the jockeys and the engineers and most people won't care about Ridley's prequels
See I'm still of the belief that it won't. Retoconning David's role in the creation maybe, but I think the lore and world building established will be followed for the most part. There's some school stuff to work with from that time period.
Maybe this a naive thought, but I don't know if Disney/20th Century Studios would have leaned so hard on the prequel connections in Romulus if they were just going to wipe it all away the following year.
Lethe matches up with the "remystify the Xenomorphs" objective
My mistake. So then 2 years before the first movie, set on Earth. Essentially acting as a true prequel to the whole Alien series (excluding Prometheus)?
Only if the moon is not LV426 though.
Based on that teaser video with actual footage specifically mentioning that the samples come from a moon, I don't think they'll come from a ship floating in space here. I think it'll be down on the actual surface.
Which could be as simple as, they get every sample available and there are none left. No point in going back.
There has to be some factor that prevents them going back to acquire further eggs so as not to break contunioty with the films.
But if it is, then as PortugueseXeno said, then WY at large isn't really going to be able to pinpoint the specifics of exactly where the samples came from over the course of the show.
Since the Maginot will crash in Prodigy City, maybe "retrieving its black box" will be a plot point, in order to know where they got those xenos from.
The Prodigy outbreak will most likely be contained through a nuclear explosion, but not before a Weyland-Yutani team retrieves the black box or something like that in order to directly tie up with the original movie from 1979.
But this will probably (if it happens) be a plot point of season 3, lmao
As SiL said it's set in 2120. WY probably f**ks up in the show and need other specimens later on, thus giving the special order 937 to the Nostromo.
We don't have Hulu in Australia. Its content gets released on Disney+.
Winter in the southern hemisphere is summer in the north. The ad that says Winter says D+ and the ad that says Summer says Hulu.
It's the same time.
Tim Olyphant as Marines captain,
Marines vs Aliens maybe Highland Goat Xenomorphs, Drukathi Xenomorph, Yautja Xenomorph or Mala'kak Xenomorph
Listen that works too, i actually prefer that as the image is usually larger on the post rather than the smaller thumbnail.
Heh, I didn't know that; I always host images and link to them 🤣
Click "more" and then "modify" on the bottom right corner of your reply post and then you'll see a box under the area you type that says, "Click or drag files here to attach them."
That will allow you to add photos or files to your post.
It is. Annoyingly, I can't figure out how to get pics on here, as I do have a screenshot of it.
haha same
Is that true? That's interesting.
For me it was to quick and lacking real substance to make that type of comparison.
Just the hand then.
Good enough for me i guess. I dislike the Engineers and David as creator idea so much in fact that i can't enjoy anything regarding Alien that is made after the prequels. But if that's the case at least i can ignore them.
You really don't need to
The marvel comics already confirm that the black goo predate the engineers
And the ancient citizens are out there
No need to erase the engineers, just have the far away moon be Lethe
He said nothing about retconning out the Engineers or the Plagiarus praepotens, that's
purist anti-Ridley revenge fanficwild speculations.I think you may wanna temper expectations; not mentioning something isn't the same as overwriting something; Noah prefers to think of the Alien as ancient, and as he put it "not something made half an hour ago". But so far we haven't had any confirmation that it exists in a separate canon; just lots of people saying that based on his comments; he said Prometheus isn't useful to his show. It it likely that there there is simply no mention or reference to the Engineers or David, but I'm not sure Disney (who seem to love creating a universe shared with expanded media) will thumbs up anything that challenges their most recent success with Romulus. More likely, it's simply not going to be mentioned or discussed, so those that want to just watch this and then the original movies can, and those who enjoy the prequels can enjoy this as part of that universe too.. I think it'll just leave it open.
Didn't Noah Hawley specifically state that his Alien is a lifeform that evolved over millions of years and not some science experiment of some tacky bald-headed pale bodybuilders and a demented android? Why then are people worrying about the timeline? It doesn't at all belong to the prequels, thank god!
Why do you think Scott said Hawley honors his first movie specifically? Because the prequels are not involved thats why!
It would be so cool
https://www.avpcentral.com/images/black-goo-pathogen-mutations/trilobite.jpg
We may be in for some creative creatures.