Alien: Earth is a brilliant and terrifying expansion of the franchise
FX’s Alien: Earth — Pictured: Sydney Chandler as Wendy. CR: Patrick Brown/FX | FX
While the monsters in each of the nine Alien movies have been a little bit different, the nefarious corporate forces have remained the same. Ridley Scott’s original Alien
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didn’t need to mention Weyland-Yutani by name for it to be clear that a singular mega-company had cornered the market on space exploration. But subsequent Alien films turned the franchise into a terrifying rumination on the violence baked into capitalism’s DNA.
Though Weyland-Yutani has loomed larger and larger in various Alien projects over the years, FX’s new Alien: Earth series is the first to explore what it looks like on the ground. Set two years before the original f …
Alien: Earth has a bigger scale than fellow FX series Shogun — and the production to go along with it. If the trailers released for it so far hadn’t made it clear, Alien: Earth is a major production for FX. Just how big? In a recently published report it was…
FX announced today that the FX, Hulu and Disney+ series Alien: Earth has been renewed for a second season as part of an overall new deal that FX and Disney Entertainment Television have sealed with showrunner Noah Hawley. Alien: Earth, Season 2 begins filming in London in 2026. “It has…
No casting has been confirmed, but star Sydney Chandler is expected to return. | Image: FX More than a month after the first season’s finale aired, FX has finally confirmed that Alien: Earth will get a second run of episodes, ending some sleepless nights for this reporter / Alien obsessive.…