Having reconfigured Joel and Ethan Coen’s Fargo into a phenomenal multi-season television hit, Noah Hawley now tackles an even more illustrious classic with Alien: Earth A prequel to Ridley Scott’s 1979 sci-fi thriller,

Earth takes viewers to a time and place never before seen in the Alien franchise: Earth, two years before the fateful voyage of the USCSS Nostromo. Earth is controlled by five different corporations,

As its name suggests, Alien: Earth imagines what would happen if the Xenomorph wound up on our planet. Here, it arrives as part of the cargo of the USCSS Maginot, a Weyland-Yutani research vessel that crash lands in New Siam, Prodigy City, named after Weyland-Yutani rival Prodigy Corporation.