If you’re hoping for squelching, disgusting xenomorph action in the upcoming series Alien: Earth, you’re in luck. Not only is it a prequel to the original movie, but it's expanding the basic canon of what we know about the xenomorphs, and when they first started using human bodies as hosts.
In a new trailer called “Gestation,” we get the inside view of how the xenomorph grows into a facehugger, its first stage after it emerges from its egg. No previous version of Alien has shown this process in such detail, and while the various images of cells dividing and reforming feel very much like the show’s possible opening credits, we’re also seeing how the series is visualizing its defining biological process.
