Alien: Earth

In 2021, we began our journey to 2120.

Four years ago, Wētā Workshop was approached by Creator Noah Hawley to work on Alien: Earth, the thrilling FX series that sees a ragtag group of tactical soldiers make a fateful discovery that puts them face-to-face with the planet’s greatest threat when a mysterious deep space research vessel called the USCSS Maginot crash-lands on our planet, a couple of years before the events of Ridley Scott’s 1979 classic.

It was a rare, incredible privilege for us to be a part of the storytelling in this sci-fi universe, one that would see our design and manufacture teams spend thousands of hours helping bring it (and its scares) to life. While we explored a wide range of briefs during the early conceptual phase that encompassed costume design, props, environments and vehicles, our focus shifted primarily to creature development as this project evolved, helping bring horror in new forms to terra firma.