The Alien franchise is still alive and well. After the movie Alien: Romulus in 2024 and a few video games in the 2020s, the new series Alien: Earth is coming to our screens on August 12. It’s created and produced by Noah Hawley (Bones, Fargo), Ridley Scott (Alien, Gladiator), David W. Zucker (The Terror), Joseph Iberti (Watchmen), Dana Gonzales (Fargo) and Clayton Krueger (Dope Thief) also serve as executive producers.
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.
One of the main topics of the show seems to be hybrids. Wendy is a hybrid, a “humanoid robot infused with human consciousness”, a recurring concept in science-fiction, giving the human consciousness immortality through the machine. Here, Wendy is transferred into this new adult-like body as a child, which leads to many ethical, moral and practical questions.
Led by Sydney Chandler, the cast includes Timothy Olyphant (Kirsh), Alex Lawther (Hermit), Samuel Blenkin (Boy Kavalier), Babou Ceesay (Morrow), Adrian Edmondson (Atom Eins), David Rysdahl (Arthur Sylvia), Essie Davis (Dame Sylvia), Lily Newmark (Nibs), Erana James (Curly), Adarsh Gourav (Slightly), Jonathan Ajayi (Smee), Kit Young (Tootles), Diêm Camille (Siberian), Moe Bar-El (Rashidi) and Sandra Yi Sencindiver (Yutani).
