On August 13, 2025, Disney+ launched the first Live-Action series «Alien: Planet Earth»which promises to reinvent the classic franchise started in 1979. Creator Noah Hawley (Fargo, Legion) places the action in 2120, two years before the events of the original film. A mysterious ship, Maginotcollapses on Earth, and a team of soldiers and a young woman discovers an extraterrestrial form that threatens the survival of humanity.
The SF series explores a world dominated by five huge corporations, where cyborgs and androids coexist with people. The appearance of hybrids – androids with human consciousness – opens a new era of immortality, and the main characters bear inspired names Peter Panamong them being Wendy (Sidney Chandler) and Boy Kavalier (Samuel Blenkin). The island-laborer where the experiments run is called Neverland (Nowhere).
Humanity is between the dark past and the technology that gets out of control – and the new series promises to explore this dilemma in detail. With monsters and androids, with corporations that now have face and name, «Alien: Planet Earth» He intends to redefine what it means to be a man in the twentieth century.
“We live in a world where nature returns against us and technology gets out of control.”
Hawley confessed to the international launch conference of the series that it was inspired by its own children to outline the moral and human conflicts of the series: “My children grow up in a society where the natural world begins to return against us and the technology we created escapes us.
A novelty brought by by «Alien: Planet Earth» is to provide a face to corporations. “One of the characteristics that define” Alien, the eighth guest “and” alien: the return “is the idea of an anonymous and faceless corporation, Weyland-Yutani. Space drivers or soldiers are, in reality, at the mercy of this anonymous corporation. But nowadays, corporations have a face, and this face belongs to young techniques,” explains Hawley, emphasizing the element brought in contemporaneity to the original film.
Alex Lawther, who plays CJ “Hermit”a human soldier, a doctor and the brother of Wendy, even compared the fear that xenomorphs can cause with the one that some billionaires in the field of technology generates: “A creature like this makes us ask questions about our own humanity. In the end, what’s more frightening? Xenomorph, an alleged killing machine, or a billionaire who treat morality with total indifference? ”.
“It is a challenge to ask ourselves if humanity can survive their own sins.”
“I went through several phases, telling stories full of hope and dystopian. I remember, for example, from 2001:” a spatial odyssey “or”Star Wars». Then, “Alien”. While in “Star Wars” things seem to go in, in “alienable»Everything is aggravated. For me, it was a responsibility to adapt the saga on the small screens, because it means to create a vision of the future, in which the characters face the question: what it means to be a man. It is also a challenge to ask ourselves if humanity can survive their own sins ”, Hawley said.
He then added that the science-fiction genre has the responsibility to address the problems of the Earth and to imagine a future with solutions: “The challenge was also to remove the monsters from the equation for a moment and see what the protagonists can bring. There are monsters who are not xenomorphs, but people. We explore many themes about the world we live in through the science fiction, projecting everything to the future.”
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The surprise element of the series – Thailand, chosen as an exotic decor
In «Alien: Planet Earth» Another unexpected protagonist appears: Thailand. The Asian country is exotic and fascinating, but rarely used as a science-fiction decor. “They treated us wonderfully, it was an extraordinary place for filming. In the series it was sweating a lot. Although we had an excellent makeup team, a large part of perspiration came from reality, due to the specific moisture of the Thai climate. We had incredible locations; it was magical to film in the Krabi region, in the jungle, it was very spectacular. said Alex Lawther.
Hawley concluded: “Science fiction must approach the problems of the Earth and imagine a future in which we can solve them. I hope the public will feel this emotional journey from one episode to another and continue to talk about it for a long time after watching. “
