FX's Alien: Earth Teaser Drops New Monsters — Just in Time for Alien Day

Alright, strap in, because Alien Day 2025 just dropped a spicy new look at FX’s upcoming series Alien: Earth, and if you’re an old-school Alien fan like me, it’s time to get hyped (and horrified).

FX rolled out two new videos for Alien: Earth — a super gross but oddly beautiful gestation scene and a new teaser showing some nasty xenomorph-related creatures packed away in crates aboard a Weyland-Yutani spaceship. Classic bad corporate decisions incoming. The new footage also finally gives us some meat on the story bones. Set in the year 2120, Alien: Earth takes place a few decades after Prometheus and right before the OG 1979 Alien. It's the perfect setting to get real messy.

Source: ScreenRant

A Quick Chestburster-Sized History Lesson

Let’s not kid ourselves: the original Alien (1979) isn’t just a "classic" sci-fi film. It rewrote how horror could be done in space. Directed by Ridley Scott, with creature designs by H.R. Giger, Alien combined the gritty realism of 70s sci-fi with primal, body-horror terror. It introduced us to Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver), the most badass final girl in film history, and birthed the xenomorph into pop culture forever.

Then came Aliens (1986) — James Cameron took the claustrophobic horror vibe and cranked it into a full-on action war movie. Game over, man!

After that? Well… let’s say the Alien movies have had their ups and downs. We'll get to that.

What’s New in Alien: Earth?

The official plot for Alien: Earth sounds deliciously on-brand:

"When a mysterious space vessel crash-lands on Earth, 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."

Yeah, this ain’t no simple bug hunt. The teaser voiceover nails it perfectly:

“This ship collected five different life forms from the darkest corners of the universe, each one a unique, deadly species… monsters!”

So we’re not just getting your average xenomorph. FX seems to be going full Aliens meets John Carpenter’s The Thing with this. Multiple creatures. Multiple horrifying ways to die. The Weyland-Yutani executives? Still the worst.

The cast is stacked too, with Sydney Chandler leading the team, plus Timothy Olyphant, Essie Davis, Babou Ceesay, and more solid talent backing her up. Chandler looks set to take the Ripley torch forward — no pressure, right?

How Alien Games Have Kept the Dream (Nightmare?) Alive

While the film side of the franchise stumbled (Alien: Covenant, anyone?), gaming kept the Alien universe thriving.

• Alien: Isolation (2014) - Straight-up masterpiece. You play as Ripley’s daughter, trapped on a haunted space station. The xenomorph hunts you relentlessly, and it learns how you play. It’s one of the best horror games of all time.
• Aliens: Fireteam Elite (2021) - Fun, co-op shooter with waves of xenos, hive queens, and lore dumps for days. It’s no Isolation, but it's a blast with friends.
• Alien: Dark Descent (2023) - Real-time strategy squad game — basically XCOM but against chestbursters. Brutal, tense, and faithful to the Alien atmosphere.

Even though Hollywood has been hit or miss with the franchise lately, Alien games have kept that feeling of dread, wonder, and desperation alive.

Ranking the Alien Movies (Because We Have To)

Here’s my totally fair and extremely scientific ranking of the Alien films:

Why FX’s Alien: Earth Could Actually Be Good

Honestly? Alien: Earth sounds like it gets it. They're not trying to reboot Ripley. They're not trying to over-explain the Space Jockey again. They're giving us an isolated crew, monstrous creatures, and Weyland-Yutani’s eternal stupidity. It’s got the bones of the original and the scale of Aliens. That’s exactly the sweet spot this franchise needs.

FX also has a pretty damn good track record with mature sci-fi (Devs, Legion, The Bear even if not sci-fi, shows they let creators cook).

Plus, it's launching this summer — not "soon" or "sometime in 2027" like a lot of other teases we get nowadays. It’s basically ready to explode out of its egg sac and ruin our day

"Fear takes new forms."

On Alien Day, it’s good to remember: Space is terrifying. Corporations are evil. Xenomorphs always win unless you nuke them from orbit.

FX’s Alien: Earth looks like it's ready to bring that energy back. Whether you’re a chestburster newbie or a veteran Colonial Marine, it’s gonna be one hell of a summer.

Prepare to run. Prepare to hide. Prepare to scream. Happy Alien Day, everybody.