Alien franchise crafts new creatures for Alien: Earth TV show

Both new and familiar alien life forms lurk around in the Disney+ series Alien: Earth, based on director Ridley Scott's original 1979 sci-fi horror movie.

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"By bringing the story to Earth, we're shifting to 'can humanity itself survive?' And then it becomes a question of 'well, what is humanity, and do we really deserve to survive?'" the new show's American director Noah Hawley says.

"These creatures that are coming are a kind of representation of the natural world reasserting its dominance, right? Reminding us that we're still part of the food chain," adds the creator of crime comedy-drama series Fargo (2014 to 2024).

Alien: Earth follows a group of travelers with various jobs who are drawn into action when a spacecraft carrying alien samples crash-lands on Earth.

It is set two years before the first Alien movie that introduced audiences to American actress Sigourney Weaver's character Ellen Ripley and the terrifying alien called a xenomorph.

Other than the xenomorphs that fans are familiar with, there are four other deadly creatures on the crashed spacecraft.

"These creatures have some, to varying degrees, recognition factor," said producer David W. Zucker.