Pay close attention, readers: there were some big Weyland-Yutani emblems that seemed to be suggesting a possible Predator/Alien crossover in May when the Dan Trachtenberg’s Predator: Badlands teaser leaked. With his official full teaser for the forthcoming Alien prequel series Alien: Earth on Disney+ and FX, Creator Noah Hawley seems to be sowing his own seeds of stream-crossing. To grasp our point, see the preview of the drama featuring Sydney Chandler, Alex Lawther, and Timothy Olyphant below;
“This ship collected five different life forms,” notes Babou Ceesay’s character, Morrow, midway through the new Alien: Earth trailer. The film revolves on the crash-landing of the research vessel USCSS Maginot on Earth, you guessed it! There are still four more aliens for Chandler’s Wendy and her tactical unit to find even if this atmospheric appetite whetter does manage to expose one alien from “the darkest corners of the universe”—a chestburster—in a few brief flashes. The truth is, though, that genre monster experts will continue to do some dot-connecting even if there isn’t a Yautja in sight; these are some dubious clicking and chittering. If you still need further convincing, the very specific and strong use of the word “predatory” ought to be sufficient to make you tinfoil your hat.
Set aside your theories and review the series summary: Five companies who rule Earth in 2120 are Prodigy, Weyland-Yutani, Lynch, Dynamic, and Threshold. In this Corporate Era, humans coexist with cyborgs—that is, humanoid robots fitted with artificial intelligence—who mix biological and synthetic components. Everything changes, though, when the brilliant CEO and Prodigy Corporation founder finds a new scientific discovery: hybrids, robots with human consciousness implanted into them. The first hybrid prototype, “Wendy” (played by Sydney Chandler), started the search for perpetual life.After the Weyland-Yutani spacecraft slams into Prodigy City, Wendy and the other hybrids encounter unidentified and deadly life forms.
Five species, some more perfect than others, are thus prowling Earth; we thus have a reasonable idea of what two of them could be. What kinds of alien threats might Wendy and her team encounter when they find the three still missing? How will Hawley’s production relate to the prequels Covenant and Prometheus, under direction by Sir Ridley Scott? Will the next big story point in this series be Ripley and the doomed voyage of the USCSS Nostromo? At last, we will be seeing the Alien against. Predator conflict that has been long awaited. Though Alien: Earth will hopefully (not) crash land on Disney+ on August 13th, we will have to live with conjecture until the movie opens.
