Alien: Earth will make you scream on Hulu and Disney Plus in mid-2025, but its latest teaser won't

Can this teaser just (xeno)morph into something better, please?

News By Tom Power published 20 November 2024

Are you ready to be terrified by xenomorphs and face huggers galore again? You better be, because Alien: Earth – the first-ever TV series set in the sci-fi horror franchise's universe – has secured a mid-2025 release window.

Announced in a Disney press release, the show, which is being helmed by Fargo creator Noah Hawley, will officially make its debut on Hulu (US) and Disney Plus (internationally) sometime between June and September next year. Indeed, confirmation comes by way of a brand-new teaser for the Alien franchise's inaugural small screen project, which revealed Alien: Earth will emerge from its ovomorph in summer 2025 (that's winter for southern hemisphere dwellers).

Alien: Earth | Teaser - Reflections | FX - YouTube

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Unfortunately, the series' latest teaser doesn't contain any new footage for fans to pore over. That'll be a grave disappointment to many people, myself included, too, especially after Alien: Earth's first teaser was the most underwhelming one I'd seen in a long time.

To be fair to this newest trailer – if it can be labeled as such – there are some quick-flash clips that appear around its midway point. The blurry nature of these snippets, though, mean it's incredibly difficult to determine what's being shown. Indeed, the only thing I could pick out was a person screaming at around the 0:24 mark. It's a bizarre way to market what's like to be one of the best Hulu shows and best Disney Plus shows of 2025, too, especially after a 'new on Disney Plus in 2025' trailer, which arrived in mid-November, actually showed some proper footage from Alien: Earth. Why not include those clips in this new teaser, then?

What is Alien: Earth about?

But enough of my complaining. You want to know what to expect from Alien: Earth's plot, don't you? Lucky for you, FX/Disney has provided new details concerning its story.

"When a mysterious space vessel crash-lands on Earth," the plot synopsis reads, "a young woman and a ragtag group of tactical soldiers make a fateful discovery that puts them face-to-face with the planet’s greatest threat in the sci-fi horror series Alien: Earth.

"As members of the crash recovery crew search for survivors among the wreckage, they encounter mysterious predatory life forms more terrifying than they could have ever imagined. With this new threat unlocked, the search crew must fight for survival and what they choose to do with this discovery could change planet Earth as they know it."

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