FX与Hulu推出的新剧《异形：地球》设定在《异形》电影宇宙中，故事发生在2120年，比1979年的首部《异形》电影早两年。剧集讲述了一群士兵和仿生人在携带异形（及其他宇宙生物）的飞船坠毁地球后发生的故事。作为系列的一部分，该剧将继续探讨韦兰-尤坦尼公司（Weyland-Yutani Corporation）为牟取私利而对异形进行实验的阴谋。剧集还可能暗示了与原版电影的联系，例如韦兰-尤坦尼公司将诺史莫号（Nostromo）转移到某个星球的情节。此外，该剧也设定在《异形：罗马》之前，因此该片中的角色不在其时间线内。剧集将通过仿生人角色探讨关于生命、死亡和人性的深刻议题。

🔹《异形：地球》是FX和Hulu推出的新剧，故事背景设定在《异形》电影宇宙中，时间线被安排在2120年，即1979年首部《异形》电影事件发生的两年前。这一定位意味着经典的艾伦·雷普利（Ellen Ripley）在剧集设定的时间点上仍然健在，尽管她与异形首次相遇的地点是LV-426行星，因此在剧中出现的可能性不大。

🔹剧集的核心情节围绕一群士兵和仿生人在一艘载有异形及其他宇宙生物的飞船坠毁地球后展开，预示着生物逃逸后将引发一系列混乱。此外，该剧也延续了系列中韦兰-尤坦尼公司的核心设定，该公司以其为牟取暴利而对异形进行实验的邪恶企图而闻名。

🔹该剧的时间线也比前一年的《异形：罗马》早了二十多年，这意味着《异形：罗马》中的主要角色，如Rain Carradine和她的仿生人搭档Andy，并不存在于《异形：地球》的时间线中。

🔹剧集将深入探讨仿生人技术，特别是韦兰-尤坦尼公司在创造用于人类的仿生人身体方面的实验。例如，剧中角色Wendy就是一个将脑部移植到合成成人身体的绝症女孩。这为剧集提供了一个独特的视角来审视生命、死亡以及人性的本质。

🔹剧集创作者Noah Hawley曾向《名利场》透露，他尚未确定剧集整体时间跨度或最终走向，但承认在某个时刻，韦兰-尤坦尼公司可能会将诺史莫号转移到某个星球，这为剧集提供了与原版电影进行潜在交叉的机会，例如展示“电话另一端”发生的事情。

"Alien: Earth" follows a group of soldiers as a ship carrying a Xenomorph crash-lands on Earth.The FX TV series is set in the same universe as the "Alien" movies.Here's when "Alien: Earth" takes place in the "Alien" timeline.

The "Alien" timeline has become quite busy in the last decade, thanks to Ridley Scott's 2010s prequels and 2024's "Alien: Romulus." So, audiences might be confused about when the new TV series, "Alien: Earth," takes place.

The eight-episode series, which starts streaming on August 12 on FX and Hulu, follows a group of soldiers and androids after a ship carrying a Xenomorph (and other cosmic creatures) crash-lands on Earth.

Presumably, chaos will ensue once the creatures escape. Like the other stories in the franchise, it will also involve Weyland-Yutani, the nefarious company that seeks to experiment on the Xenomorph for its own profit-driven ambitions.

Here's where "Alien: Earth" sits in the franchise's timeline.

"Alien: Earth" takes place two years before the original "Alien" movie.

"Alien: Earth" takes place in 2120, two years before the events of "Alien," which came out in 1979.

This means the iconic character Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) is alive during the time the series is set. But it seems unlikely that she'll be in the show as she first encounters the Xenomorph in "Alien" after her ship is directed to a planet called LV-426.

However, the show's creator, Noah Hawley, did address the idea of a crossover with the original movie when speaking to Vanity Fair in July.

Hawley said: "I don't yet know, in terms of the series from beginning to end, how much time is going to pass or where we're going to end up, but I do know that at a certain point, the Weyland-Yutani Corporation is going to divert the Nostromo to that planet…We have the opportunity to maybe see what was happening on the other side of that phone call."

The show is also set over 20 years before last year's "Alien: Romulus," which means Rain Carradine (Cailee Spaeny) and her faithful android Andy (David Jonsson) aren't alive in its timeline.

Speaking of androids, we do know that companies like Weyland-Yutani are experimenting with creating android bodies for human beings in "Alien: Earth." Sydney Chambers plays Wendy in the TV series, a terminally ill young girl whose brain is transferred into a synthetic adult body.

It will be interesting to see what the show has to say about humanity, life, and death through the lens of its android characters.