It’s now just three days until new Disney+ series Alien: Earth makes its global debut. The series, masterminded by Noah Hawley, debuts with a two-episode premiere on August 13, 2025. Ahead of its launch we sat down with cast members Samuel Blenkin who plays Boy Kavalier and Babou Ceesay who plays Morrow. Over the next few days in the run up to the premiere we’ll be sharing what they had to say about joining this legendary franchise.
When the mysterious deep space research vessel USCSS Maginot crash-lands on Earth, “Wendy” (Sydney Chandler) and a ragtag group of tactical soldiers make a fateful discovery that puts them face-to-face with the planet’s greatest threat in FX’s “Alien: Earth.”
Check out the series trailer in the player below. Head down the page to find out what Babou and Samuel had to say when we asked what long-time fans of the franchise can expect from the series.
NB: This interview has been edited for length and clarity.
Neil Vagg (GYCO): The Alien fanbase is just so notoriously passionate and rabid. What do you hope the long time fans will appreciate about this new take? And going back to the beginning, as it were?
Samuel Blenkin: I think that, to me what makes great TV is when it’s a singular vision. I think Noah Hawley has a track record of taking IP like this and turning them into great stories, but that can be made only in the way that he makes them. I think that that’s one of the key ingredients to making great art. So, you know, when I heard that he was doing the series I didn’t know what that would look like. I know what Alien looks like. I know what the creatures feel like. I know what that iconic film did to me when I watched it when I was really young. But the exciting thing for me is seeing somebody with a very specific vision for the way that they tell stories combine that with such an influential universe. So I think that that’s what they’ll appreciate is the combination of those two things creating something new.
Babou Ceesay: I think sometimes it’s easy to forget that we’re fans. So in a way that was what it was like on set. It wasn’t lost on anybody where we were in what we were doing. It was hard to not get lost because there’s an eight foot Xenomorph standing in the corner and so it’s made for the fans by the fans. We just hoping we’ve done enough. This franchise belongs to the fans. We’ve just come from Comic-Con in San Diego and the passion, the love. We watched the first episode in Hall H with 6,400 people. It was emotional.
In the year 2120, the Earth is governed by five corporations: Prodigy, Weyland-Yutani, Lynch, Dynamic and Threshold. In this Corporate Era, cyborgs (humans with both biological and artificial parts) and synthetics (humanoid robots with artificial intelligence) exist alongside humans. But the game is changed when the wunderkind Founder and CEO of Prodigy Corporation unlocks a new technological advancement: hybrids (humanoid robots infused with human consciousness). The first hybrid prototype named “Wendy” marks a new dawn in the race for immortality. After Weyland-Yutani’s spaceship collides into Prodigy City, “Wendy” and the other hybrids encounter mysterious life forms more terrifying than anyone could have ever imagined.
Led by Chandler, the series showcases an expansive international cast, which includes Timothy Olyphant (“Kirsh”), Alex Lawther (“Hermit”), Samuel Blenkin (“Boy Kavalier”), Babou Ceesay (“Morrow”), Adrian Edmondson (“Atom Eins”), David Rysdahl (“Arthur Sylvia”), Essie Davis (“Dame Sylvia”), Lily Newmark (“Nibs”), Erana James (“Curly”), Adarsh Gourav (“Slightly”), Jonathan Ajayi (“Smee”), Kit Young (“Tootles”), Diêm Camille (“Siberian”), Moe Bar-El (“Rashidi”) and Sandra Yi Sencindiver (“Yutani”).
FX’s Alien: Earth is created for television and executive produced by Peabody and Emmy® Award-winning Noah Hawley. Ridley Scott, David W. Zucker, Joseph Iberti, Dana Gonzales and Clayton Krueger also serve as executive producers. “Alien: Earth” is produced by FX Productions.
