With Alien: Earth launching today, FX has released a new trailer fans of the original Alien movie are sure to enjoy.
FX has remade the original Alien movie trailer with material from Alien: Earth, complete with similar shots, the same sounds, and re-jigged effects.
In the original trailer for Ridley Scott’s seminal 1979 sci-fi horror movie, we see the word ‘Alien’ appear bit by bit as a xenomorph egg comes into view over an alien landscape. The egg cracks open alongside scary sounds, with footage from the movie showing Sigourney Weaver’s Ripley and the rest of the crew of the Nostromo looking increasingly desperate before we close out on a shot of the Nostromo in space and that iconic tagline: “In space no one can hear you scream.”
This Alien: Earth trailer is very similar. It begins with the words ‘Alien Earth’ appearing bit by bit, as they do in the original trailer, except Earth itself is the egg. Earth then cracks open with the same visual effect, and we get similarly frantic footage from the show. Where Sigourney Weaver’s Ripley was running inside a spaceship corridor, we see new Alien star Sydney Chandler as Wendy, the first hybrid, running in a similar shot.
Some of the shots we see are certainly not for the faint of heart, although they are in keeping with prior Alien: Earth trailers. Where the original Alien trailer showed Ripley’s cat, Jonesy, we see another cat in this Alien: Earth trailer, and, well… let’s just say that poor cat will never be the same again.
The new trailer ends with a new tagline: “We were safer in space.”
For a side-by-side comparison, check out the video below:
Alien: Earth is full of homages to the original film – and this latest trailer is one of them! pic.twitter.com/Gnk3xnyhUb
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There’s a lot of excitement among fans for Alien: Earth, from Fargo creator Noah Noah Hawley. It reportedly has a bigger scale than fellow FX series Shogun — and the production to go along with it.
Alien: Earth revolves around the mysterious deep space research vessel USCSS Maginot, which crash-lands on earth. Wendy (Sydney Chandler) and a group of tactical soldiers make a “fateful discovery” that puts them face-to-face with the xenomorph fans know well, but also a number of never-before-seen alien species. Some of these look disgusting, which is of course in-keeping with the Alien franchise’s sci-fi horror roots.
Alien: Earth is set just a few years before the events of Alien, which famously debuted the xenomorph. At this point in the Alien timeline, Earth is governed by five corporations: Weyland-Yutani, Prodigy, which owns the city the Maginot crashes into, Lynch, Dynamic, and Threshold. Cyborgs and synthetics coexist with humans, but then the boss of Prodigy invents hybrids (humanoid robots with human consciousness). Wendy is the first hybrid prototype, and is part of the established push for immortality that is a running theme in the Alien franchise.
Alien: Earth premieres its first two episodes on August 12 on Hulu at 8pm ET, and on FX and Disney+ at 8pm PT / ET (August 13 in the UK and internationally on Disney+). New episodes of the eight-episode season debut each following Tuesday.
In January last year, Hawley explained why he is not using the backstory provided in Prometheus for Alien: Earth, saying he likes the “retro-futurism” of the original films. Hawley said he spoke to Alien chief Ridley Scott about “many, many elements” of the Alien series, including its ties to the prequels, but ultimately decided to cut loose and move away from the bioweapon backstory because he preferred the lore of the original films.
Check out IGN’s Alien: Earth review to find out what we think of the show.
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