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Television ALIEN: EARTH (Premieres August 12, 2025)

I am hyped, one of the few that likes every movie in the franchise.
 
I hope this is good. If they make the aliens have emotions then I am out.
 
It is continuing one trend that feels weird to me, in the past it was quite common for actors who are much older or look much older than the parts they are playing.

Today the opposite is true, it just seems so out of place when someone who doesn't look old enough to buy alcohol is playing a role of authority
 
I'm still trying to wrap my head around AVP not being canon as an origin story for Alienz on earth... but I'll put that aside & take in this new story... if it's an official canon offering.

@GtehMVP you know this world more than most.

Serious question: is this story considered "canon Alien" or is this another side project? what is your take on what we've been presented with in this series vs teh novelz & proper canon?
 
From the trailer this looks pretty cool and looks to be really well made. Lets hope its good! Seems like they took the best parts of each movie with a little bit of what was explored in prometheus and covnent.
 
Myrddin Wild said:
I'm still trying to wrap my head around AVP not being canon as an origin story for Alienz on earth... but I'll put that aside & take in this new story... if it's an official canon offering.

@GtehMVP you know this world more than most.

Serious question: is this story considered "canon Alien" or is this another side project? what is your take on what we've been presented with in this series vs teh novelz & proper canon?
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Oh it's official canon baby, set not long before the 1st Alien film, think a few years.

GearSolidMetal said:
The more I think about this prequel-Alien series set on Earth, the more I'm convinced it can't possibly be good.

Hoping I'm wrong.
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One of my fav stories is set on Earth/Earth orbit and it's the prequel novel to Alien Covenant (movie I didn't like). It's basically about a group of cultists who try and stop the Covenant from launching, with loads of new lore for what happened to the Weyland Corp.

Hopefully this story is just as intriguing as that novel was. It's a cool timeline because the Weyland-Utani merger is still fresh (just happened in the novel) so I expect some classic corporate shenanigans like the Covenant Origins novel had (set a decade or so before this).

One of my fav aspects of Cyberpunk and Blade Runner (loosely tied to Alien) are the mega corps, and Aliens has them in spaids.

At least Noah Hawley is behind the creative. I'm excited to see what he'll do. Legion was wicked!

I liked Alien Romulus, just hope for less memberberries.
 
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deviake said:
Came here to post this.

Also, solid breakdown

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Nice! Alien Theory, the goat YT channel covering the franchise. This guy got hundreds of extra hours/views from me as I fell asleep to his playlists countless times.

This is a great breakdown, thanks for sharing. I like that they're pulling from Bug Hunt (a cool little collection of short stories) to give us new creatures on screen.

As I've probably posted a dozen times over the years, anyone who likes all things Alien/AVP, be sure to watch his motion comic-like videos on the Dark Horse series of graphic novels (read them if you can too). Those are total gems, especially the earth war, and the adventures of Hicks and Newt a decade after Aliens (before Aliens 3 did them dirty). There are so many great characters and corpo madness.




For Predator fans, this is a different story than we got in the 2nd movie with Glover, which it influenced. It covers Arnold's brother, Detective Schaefer.

 
GtehMVP said:
For Predator fans, this is a different story than we got in the 2nd movie with Glover, which it influenced. It covers Arnold's brother, Detective Schaefer.

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Man, I haven't thought of that book in decades.

Dark Horse was awesome.
 
Lycandroid said:
It is continuing one trend that feels weird to me, in the past it was quite common for actors who are much older or look much older than the parts they are playing.

Today the opposite is true, it just seems so out of place when someone who doesn't look old enough to buy alcohol is playing a role of authority
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Nailed it!

Leonardo Di Caprio Look GIF by Once Upon A Time In Hollywood


That is exactly why I couldn't get into Romulus. I finally watched it last week and it just did nothing for me.

I will give this series a chance because, well, why not?
 
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really excited for this kid, Samuel Blenkin. bro had a single guest appearance as a one-off character in Atlanta (s3ep5, “Cancer Attack”) & his performance had me like, yo who the fuck is this?! it’s one of the best eps of Atlanta in large part due to his performance imo.

i’m honestly surprised he hasn’t rocketed into bigger roles yet, but hopefully his main cast spot here will be lead to bigger things down the line because this kid def has the juice. he’d slot nicely in the same indie/indie-adjacent corner that Barry Keoghan occupies—basically, a modern-day millennial character actor, but w/ bigger lead/co-lead opportunities mixed in compared to previous generations’ character actors
 
Lycandroid said:
It is continuing one trend that feels weird to me, in the past it was quite common for actors who are much older or look much older than the parts they are playing.

Today the opposite is true, it just seems so out of place when someone who doesn't look old enough to buy alcohol is playing a role of authority
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Some weird trend where Hollywood started casting super young for everything. I don't like it.
 
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