Last month, director Fede Alvarez turned back the clock on the Alien franchise with Alien: Romulus, but the upcoming TV series will go back even further. FX’s Alien: Earth is set three decades before Ridley Scott’s original film. And as the title implies, this means the xenomorphs have gotten closer to Earth than anyone previously realized. Now, the first teaser for the series reveals a slightly changed xenomorph design as our home world is reflected on its head.
This clip was previously attached to a few theaters showing Alien: Romulus, but it’s now been released online for the first time. Additionally, FX has sent out the show’s description, which reveals that the xenomorph, or at least the facehuggers, arrived on Earth in “a mysterious space vessel” that crashed on th…