Watch 5 Mysterious Clips From Alien: Earth’s Crashed Ship

A heavy, sturdy black case arrives at my door. On it, a emblem well-known to sci-fi followers: Weyland-Yutani, the corporate from the Alien franchise. An organization whose determined makes an attempt to safe a Xenomorph have resulted in 1000’s of deaths, possibly extra. So, while you obtain a package deal from them, you understand something important is about to occur.

What’s about to occur is the debut of Alien: Earth, FX’s upcoming show set years earlier than any of the Alien movies. It follows a crew of troopers who examine a ship that has crashed on Earth and are pressured to cope with what it accommodates. We assume, in fact, that it accommodates one thing that can finally create an alien, however what precisely? The package deal that arrived at my door had some clues.

Together with the package deal was a notice from an organization known as Prodigy Corp. It defined that the case was “recovered from a just lately crashed Weyland-Yutani vessel.”

“We suspect there’s vital info pertaining to Weyland-Yutani’s Deep Area Packages that may very well be of use to the company,” the notice reads. “Please examine all components and report your findings.” Comfortable to oblige.

The in-world crossover is usually disconnected from the precise contents of the package deal. A hat, mug, and deck of playing cards are the largest objects. Every has the emblem for the USCSS Maginot, the title of the crashed ship. The important thing objects, nonetheless, are a cat collar and a USB drive with 5 movies on it.

The collar is vital as a result of the movies are all from the POV of the cat aboard the ship. They present him principally simply being a cat. However in his explorations, he stumbles upon a couple of very curious issues you could watch on the movies included within the drive. Right here’s video one.

So right here you get to see the cat get the digital camera placed on him and stroll round a bit. The important thing takeaway is the top the place we see a pc—very like Mom within the first Alien—with a really comparable “Precedence One” message: “Acquisition and secure return of all organisms for evaluation. All different issues secondary.” So, this ship was despatched out to search out one thing. And discover one thing, it did. Right here’s video two.

This one is much less concerning the visuals and extra concerning the banter. The primary pullout is the point out of the planet Arcturus, a spot that has been talked about in Alien lore earlier than, but only very tangentially. Right here it’s mentioned to be “gross” to wish to go there. Is that the place they discover the specimen on the present? Let’s test video three.

Right here, our hero cat catches two crew members enjoying playing cards and discussing one thing they’ve discovered. “Flora or fauna?” one asks. “Possibly each,” she responds. “We’re nonetheless operating checks.” The concept that they will’t inform if what they discovered is a plant or an animal strongly suggests it’s a face-hugger egg. Or one thing new we haven’t seen. On to video 4.

This time our curious cat finds what we predict are the samples the ship has found. We are able to’t precisely see what’s in there however there are a minimum of 4 of them. Might or not it’s 4 eggs? Lastly, the final clip.

We see one of many crew members in hypersleep when one thing goes improper. A hearth. Is that this the incident that began the crash again to Earth? What precipitated the hearth? We don’t know.

All of it is a very cool strategy to tease the present and it’s culminating later this week in Austin, Texas. That’s the place FX has recreated the crash web site of the Maginot for followers to take a look at at SXSW. Learn more about that here.

Alien: Earth is coming to FX this summer time. Because of the streamer for sending us the package deal.

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