‘Alien: Earth’: What are the 5 companies that management Earth?

Alien: Earth takes place earlier than the primary Alien film chronologically, at a time when the globe — and a few of house — is dominated by 5 totally different companies.

A few of these are names we have heard earlier than within the Alien universe, whereas others are model new. Some seem like extra related to the story Alien: Earth is telling than others. That will help you hold observe, we have damaged down the 5 companies, and all the things we find out about them thus far.

What are the 5 companies in Alien: Earth?

Though solely three of the companies have been talked about thus far within the present, the names of all 5 have been revealed within the official Alien: Earth press launch. These are:

• Weyland-Yutani

• Lynch

• Dynamic

• Threshold

• Prodigy

We get a quick glimpse of the individuals who presumably run these 5 companies close to the beginning of episode 1, throughout an impromptu politics lesson given by Maginot engineer Shmuel (Michael Smiley) to his apprentice Malachite (Jamie Bisping).

What do we all know in regards to the companies?

We all know fairly a bit a couple of couple, and principally nothing about some others. The 2 companies which were key to the Alien: Earth story thus far are Weyland-Yutani, which owns the USCSS Maginot deep house analysis vessel that crashes on Earth carrying the alien specimens, and Prodigy, a more recent company that owns Prodigy Metropolis in New Siam, the place the ship lands, and the “Neverland” analysis island the place the hybrids are based mostly.

Prodigy is owned by Boy Kavalier (Samuel Blevin), the “youngest trillionaire ever” who we study based the corporate round a decade in the past — Alien: Earth is about in 2120. Prodigy is thought for synths and AI, however as we uncover in episode 1, they’re within the means of pioneering one thing new: hybrids, that are basically synths with a downloaded human consciousness.

When it comes to the opposite companies, we all know principally nothing about Lynch and Threshold — these have not been talked about in Alien: Earth but — and the one factor we find out about Dynamic is that they management the moon, because of a passing remark by Zaveri (Richa Moorjani) within the Maginot canteen. As Shmuel explains additional within the scene, Weyland-Yutani has management of each North and South America and Mars and Saturn.

As we already know from the Alien franchise as a complete, Weyland-Yutani has an obsession with Xenomorphs, and buying alien species for its personal shady functions (usually on the expense of the people concerned with mentioned buying). Given the lengths the company has already gone to to assemble the specimens onboard the Maginot, what lengths may they go to to attempt to get them again?

Alien: Earth premieres Aug. 12 at 8 p.m. ET on Hulu and FX with two episodes, then weekly on Tuesdays.