Alien turns 40 this year. Celebrating its 40th Anniversary, the franchise partnered up with Global Creative Community Tongal to develop and produce 6 original shorts set in the Alien universe.
Check out the official teaser trailer for the shorts below:
These aren’t just any run-of-the-mill shorts. Twentieth Century Fox reportedly reviewed over 550 pitches from filmmakers, ending up settling on six of those ideas.
Every filmmaker had exclusive access to everything in the Alien franchise. Storytelling elements, creatures, and characters were all at the disposal of each director.
Each of these six shorts delivers new tales in the Alien universe while paying homage to the original films. The films will all roll out on a weekly basis on IGN, beginning on March 29.
On May 3rd, the shorts also will be available on the official @AlienAnthology social channels and AlienUniverse.com, along with exclusive behind-the-scenes content.
Check out the synopsis for each of the shorts below:
“ALIEN: Alone”: Hope, an abandoned crew member aboard the derelict chemical hauler Otranto, has spent a year trying to keep her ship and herself alive as both slowly fall apart.
After discovering hidden cargo, she risks it all to power up the broken ship in search of human life. Written and Directed by Noah Miller.
“ALIEN: Containment”: Four survivors find themselves stranded aboard a small escape pod in deep space. Trying to piece together the details around the outbreak that led to their ship’s destruction.
They find themselves unsure to trust whether or not one of them might be infected. Written and Directed by Chris Reading.
“ALIEN: Harvest”: The surviving crew of a damaged deep-space harvester
A motion sensor is their only navigation tool leading them to safety while a creature in the shadows terrorizes the crew. However, the greatest threat might have been hiding in plain sight all along. Directed by Benjamin Howdeshell.
“ALIEN: Night Shift”: When a missing space trucker is discovered hungover and disoriented, his co-worker suggests a nightcap as a remedy.
Near closing time, they are reluctantly allowed inside the colony supply depot where the trucker’s condition worsens, leaving a young supply worker alone to take matters into her own hands. Written and Directed by Aidan Breznick.
“ALIEN: Ore”: As a hard-working miner of a planet mining colony, Lorraine longs to make a better life for her daughter and grandchildren.
When her shift uncovers the death of a fellow miner under mysterious circumstances, Lorraine is forced to choose between escape or defying management orders and facing her fears to fight for the safety of her family.
Written and Directed by the Spear Sisters.
“ALIEN: Specimen”: It’s the night shift in a colony greenhouse, and Julie, a botanist, does her best to contain suspicious soil samples that have triggered her sensitive lab dog. The lab unexpectedly enters a full shutdown, trapping her.
Little does she know, an alien specimen has escaped the mysterious cargo, and a game of cat and mouse ensues as the creature searches for a host. Directed by Kelsey Taylor.
