Alien: Earth contains three several types of excessive tech lifeforms created by mankind, however one in every of them is previous information from the attitude of the characters.
Through the panel for the brand new Alien TV sequence at San Diego Comedian-Con 2025 at present, solid member Babou Ceesay (Into the Badlands, Rogue One) was requested about his character Morrow’s uncommon nature. Morrow is likely one of the crew members onboard the Maginot, a ship coming back from a mission in deep area to gather samples of 5 alien lifeforms for Weyland-Yutani.
Morrow can also be a cyborg, one thing we see represented by how he can rework his palms, making weapons and instruments seem. However as Ceesay factors out, the Maginot is wrapping up a 65-year mission when the present begins, which means when it comes to expertise, he’s historical. Or as Ceesay put it, “He’s coming again to a planet the place he’s basically an iPhone 1 in an iPhone 20 world.”
That is additionally attention-grabbing as a result of Alien: Earth begins with onscreen textual content informing us that there have been three completely different applied sciences all developed within the hopes of attaining immortality – cyborgs, synths, and hybrids. Synths are the artificial beings we’ve seen in all of the Alien motion pictures and hybrids are one thing new being launched in Alien: Earth’s 2120 setting – an artificial physique with a human consciousness. However cyborgs, as one expects, are people with cybernetic upgrades, which is one thing we’ve by no means seen within the Alien film earlier than.
Within the Alien: Earth premiere, Morrow is the one cyborg we meet, although that doesn’t imply he’s the one one round. However synths have been the prevalent such being within the Alien franchise (together with within the unique 1979 film, set two years after Alien: Earth). This makes it really feel like past Morrow himself being outdated, cyborgs could be thought of the previous and presumably principally passé tech generally, synths the present and most prevalent tech, and hybrids are undoubtedly the most recent tech, given we meet the first-ever instance of such a being (Sydney Chandler’s Wendy) within the sequence. However given all the different Alien motion pictures — some set lengthy after each Alien: Earth and Alien – lean a lot on synths, it looks like not solely do cyborgs fully fall by the wayside however that one thing stops hybrids from turning into a profitable expertise…. Although the query stays why that’s.
For now although, Alien: Earth will characteristic each hybrids and at the very least one cyborg in a distinguished function within the type of Morrow. And whereas Morrow could be seen as historical, old-timey expertise for the individuals of 2120, Ceesay nonetheless proudly proclaimed, “He’s obtained his swiss military knife arm!”
