The series will serve as a prequel and will be set three decades before the events of the 1979 film Alien. It stars Sydney Chandler, Alex Lawther, Samuel Blenkin, Essie Davis, and Adarsh Gourav. The series is a joint-venture production between 20th Television and Scott Free Productions. Noah Hawley is showrunner and Ridley Scott is executive producer.
The Alien franchise depicts a series of deadly encounters between humanity and the Aliens. The Aliens are a hostile, endoparasitoid, extraterrestrial species. The series fictionalizes the origin of the human race.