Alien: Earth’s showrunner wanted it to be a dark reflection of our world
Sydney Chandler as Wendy / Marcy and Samuel Blenkin as Boy Kavalier. | Image: FX
In Alien: Earth, a techbro wunderkind controls 20 percent of the world's continental land mass, and he likes to play God in a secret lab located on a remote island. That's where the trillionaire has engineered a new pathway to human immortality, and given a group of dying children a second chance at life. But the island is also a kind of prison that the young trillionaire's employees cannot easily escape. And while most of the lab's previous test subjects have been human, the latest batch is a collection of dangerous, intelligent creatures from a distant planet.
Though Alien: Earth plays with many of the ideas that have defined the franchis …