What’s FX‘s most anticipated new show this summer: “The Bear” Season 4 or Noah Hawley‘s prequel series “Alien: Earth“? The new trailer for Hawley’s series makes a great case for itself, and it may just be the buzziest must-see TV of the next three months.
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Set before the events of Ridley Scott‘s 1979 film, “Alien: Earth” follows a cyborg and a ragtag group of tactical soldiers as they investigate a deep space research vessel’s mysterious crash-landing on Earth: a mission that pits them face-to-face against the planet’s biggest threat.
Here’s an official synopsis for “Alien: Earth,” courtesy of FX:
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.
“Alien: Earth” stars Sydney Chandler, Timothy Olyphant, Alex Lawther, Samuel Blenkin, Babout Ceesay, and Adrian Edmondson. David Rysdahl, Essie Davis, Lily Newmark, and Erana James also star. Adarsh Gourav, Jonathan Ajayi, Kit Young, Diêm Camille, Moe Bar-El, and Sandra Yi round out the main cast.
Hawley serves as creator, showrunner, and executive producer on “Alien: Earth.” Other executive producers on the series include Scott, David W. Zucker, Joseph Iberti, Dana Gonzales, and Clayton Krueger.
Watch the new trailer for “Alien: Earth” below. The show premieres on FX and Hulu on August 12.