2025 8-part sci-fi drama series, a prequel to Ridley Scott's classic 1979 film 'Alien', released on Hulu and Disney+ in 2025.
It is set in 2120, two years before the events of the original 'Alien movie, and explores a future where Earth is dominated by five powerful corporations. This includes 'Weyland-Yutani', where the quest for immortality has led to the development of cybernetically enhanced humans (cyborgs), artificial intelligence (synthetics), and hybrid beings (synthetic beings with human consciousness). When the spaceship Maginot crashes on Earth, Wendy, a young hybrid woman, along with her ragtag group of hybrid soldiers make a fateful discovery that puts them face-to-face with the planet’s greatest threat.
Jonathan Ajayi had a major role playing 'Smee' who is described as a human-synthetic hybrid. He is one of the 'Lost Boys' which refers to terminally ill human children who are undergoing a transfer of consciousness to synthetic hybrids.
★★★★★ "Nothing short of a triumph. An Alien saga at once familiar and entirely fresh. An unsettling transhuman fable that stands on its own without aliens at all. An acutely cinematic experience, precision-tooled for hour-long instalments...This is the Alien resurrection we’ve long been waiting for" - Empire