share 0 0 0 0 0 0 We finally have a better idea of how FX’s upcoming series, Alien: Earth , will fit into the overarching Alien timeline, with a new trailer revealing that the show will be set in 2120 , two years before the events of the original 1979 film. Check out the 40-second teaser here: This new information clears up previous reports that the series would be set before the events of 2012’s Prometheus , with the trailer describing that “in 2120, Mother Earth is expecting”, following the usual close-up of a Xenomorph as seen in previous teasers . Short glimpses of other creatures are also shown, including a Xenomorph egg hatching and what looks to be the eye of an unknown white creature.
Advertisement ▼ More details on its cast were also revealed, with the show being led by Sydney Chandler ( Pistol, Don’t Worry Darling ), alongside Alex Lawther ( The End of the F***ing World ), Timothy Olyphant ( Deadwood ), Essie Davis ( The Babadook ), Samuel Blenkin ( The Witcher: Blood Origin ), Babou Ceesay ( Severance ), David Rysdahl ( No Exit ), Adrian Edmondson ( The Young Ones ), Adarsh Gourav ( The White Tiger ), Jonathan Ajayi ( The Drifters ), Erana James ( The Wilds ), Lily Newmark ( Cursed ), Diem Camille ( The Great Silence ), and Moe Bar-El ( Honour ). Setting the show’s chronology to be much further away from the events of Prometheus does come as no surprise, with showrunner Noah Hawley explaining earlier in the year that he would not be using the backstor.