Considering the cameras won't start rolling until next year, though, it's highly unlikely that Alien: Earth season 2 will launch on two of the world's best streaming services until late 2027. That's a best-case scenario, too, and will only be achievable if it enters full production in early 2026.

Picking up where the first season left off, the show will continue to flash back and forth across the life of Lee Shaw (played as a young Army officer in the 1950s by Wyatt Russell and in the modern day by his father Kurt ),