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Daily Mail
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Nepo baby actress puts on brave face as she continues Alien: Earth press tour despite Variety cover scandal
Sydney Chandler put on a brave face amid her Variety cover scandal over the weekend to promote Alien: Earth at San Diego Comic-Con. The nepo baby daughter of actor Kyle Chandler appeared to be in good spirits as she did the rounds alongside her co-stars from the upcoming FX series. Chandler, 29, commanded attention in a sheer black skirt and cropped leather jacket as she posed for photos with Alien: Earth's leading man Timothy Olyphant. She seemed more than happy to speak to press at the convention, conducting interviews with MTV, IGN, The Hollywood Reporter and many more. Olyphant even went out of his way to praise the ingénue, calling her 'a joy to work with.' 'A professional, on time, always made interesting choices,' he gushed to On The Red Carpet. Chandler did her best to smooth things over following her debacle with Variety magazine last week. The rising star clashed with the publication over her refusal to film a Q&A game called 'How Well Do They Know Each Other?' with co-star Olyphant and showrunner Noah Hawley. The game is a Variety staple and has previously been played by Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo, Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman, and many other A-listers. Chandler reportedly refused to play the game, claiming that she was a 'private person' and didn't feel comfortable with it. While she had her team offer up alternative ideas to Variety, such a breakdown of the Alien: Earth trailer, Variety's Editor-in-Chief Ramin Setoodeh refused to budge and pulled her from the cover shoot. However, both sides restarted negotiations and Chandler was once again set to shoot the cover alongside Olyphant and Hawley, only for the actress to pull out on the morning of the booking. This left Olyphant and Hawley to do the cover without Chandler, who is the lead star in Alien: Earth. Olyphant and Hawley also filmed the 'How Well Do They Know Each Other?' game together, without Chandler. Chandler made her acting debut with a supporting role in Olivia Wilde's controversial psychological thriller Don't Worry Darling back in 2022. That same year, she landed a coveted role playing rock legend Chrissie Hyde in FX's musical miniseries Pistol, which was based on the career of the Sex Pistols. Her famous father Kyle has been a Hollywood staple for years thanks to memorable roles in Argo, The Wolf of Wall Street, Netflix's Bloodline, the Godzilla franchise, and Friday Night Lights, which earned him an Emmy. The Variety scandal will most likely leave FX unimpressed given how much the network has put into Alien: Earth. While FX has declined to reveal the exact budget of the series, FX Entertainment president Gina Balian told Variety that it was 'bigger' than Shōgun, which cost $250 million. Alien: Earth is a prequel to the original 1979 film, which famously starred Sigourney Weaver as the iconic character Ripley. Chandler leads the series as Wendy, an android who has the body of a robot but the consciousness of a human. Her deep space research vessel crash lands on earth in the year 2120, where Wendy and a ragtag group of tactical soldiers must face 'mysterious life forms more terrifying than anyone could have ever imagined.' Alien: Earth premieres August 12 on FX and streams on Hulu and Hulu on Disney+.
Yahoo
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
‘Alien: Earth' Screens Blockbuster First Episode at Comic-Con
The upcoming Alien television series crash landed into Comic-Con with a blockbuster Hall H panel that got thousands of geeks sitting on the edge of their seats to an encroaching otherworldly horror. Alien: Earth, the FX series based on the classic 20th Century Studios science fiction horror movies, saw its first episode play on a giant screen in front of over 6,500 fans ahead of the show's premiere on FX and Hulu on Aug. 12. It was an ear-splitting, body-shaking experience that showcased epic moments, intimate moments and icky moments. More from The Hollywood Reporter 'Rick and Morty' Spinoff 'President Curtis' a Go at Adult Swim 'The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon' Renewed for Fourth and Final Season at AMC "James Fraser Dies" in First 'Outlander' Season 8 Footage 'This is by far the biggest thing I've ever made,' said Noah Hawley, the showrunner who wrote and directed the pilot episode. 'But I made it like I make everything else: By hand, and love for you.' The series is ostensibly about a crashed spacecraft that brings the dreaded Alien xenomorph to Earth. But as expected, in Hawley's hands, there is much more going on. There are themese of humanity's quest for immortality, the greed of corporations (and inter-corporate warfare) and sibling love. Sydney Chandler plays a young woman named Wendy who is a first of her kind hybrid, a humanoid robot infused with human consciousness made by one of the mega-corporations who run the world. When a research starship owned by another mega-corporation crashes in a Southeast Asian metropolis, the childlike Wendy leads a rescue mission in order to find her brother. Unbeknownst to all, a xenomorph is on the ship… and so are a bunch of brand new alien creatures. 'Each hour has to have its horror elements but it has to be a drama,' explained Hawley. 'It has to be a character journey and be themactically rich. You have to worry that I may kill one of these people. I just might.' Timothy Olyphant, who plays a father figure of sorts to Chandler's characters, concurred, adding that by the time audiences gets four episodes in, it will be the character moments they will remember. But let's get back to the new creatures. Hawley said that the idea behind that was creating new feelings of 'genetic revulsion.' 'The one feeling you can't get back is the discovery of the life cycle of this creature (we all know so well now),' he said. 'How every step along the way is worse than the step before.' That said, there is plenty of xenomorph action. And it was mostly practical effects. The xenomorph was a man in a suit, not CG. 'I almost peed,' Chandler said when she saw him on set for the first time. Alien: Earth has a strong presence at Comic-Con as it also has an elaborate activation on the grounds of the convention center and nearby hotel. The interactive site allows guests to visit the crash site of the space ship holding the alien specimens and even allows for 'missions' in the evening as well as giveaways. Best of The Hollywood Reporter 'The Studio': 30 Famous Faces Who Play (a Version of) Themselves in the Hollywood-Based Series 22 of the Most Shocking Character Deaths in Television History A 'Star Wars' Timeline: All the Movies and TV Shows in the Franchise Solve the daily Crossword
Los Angeles Times
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Los Angeles Times
‘Alien' TV stars tour spaceship wreck at Comic-Con
'Alien: Earth' had its series world premiere at the 2025 San Diego Comic-Con. The activation for the show, 'The Wreckage: Code Red,' gives fans a chance to experience the show themselves. We went with stars Sydney Chandler and Babou Ceesay as well as show writer, director and creator Noah Hawley through the experience.
Toronto Sun
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Toronto Sun
'Alien: Earth' oozes into Comic-Con Day 2, 'Predator: Badlands' slays and 'Tron: Ares' dazzles
Published Jul 26, 2025 • 4 minute read Sydney Chandler and Timothy Olyphant speak onstage at FX's "Alien: Earth" Panel during 2025 Comic-Con International: San Diego at San Diego Convention Center on July 25, 2025 in San Diego, California. Photo by Amy Sussman / Getty Images Reviews and recommendations are unbiased and products are independently selected. Postmedia may earn an affiliate commission from purchases made through links on this page. SAN DIEGO (AP) — The Grid has overtaken Comic-Con. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. THIS CONTENT IS RESERVED FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLY Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Unlimited online access to articles from across Canada with one account. Get exclusive access to the Toronto Sun ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition that you can share, download and comment on. Enjoy insights and behind-the-scenes analysis from our award-winning journalists. 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Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience. Access articles from across Canada with one account Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments Enjoy additional articles per month Get email updates from your favourite authors Don't have an account? Create Account Disney unveiled details about 'Tron: Ares,' which stars Jared Leto, Jeff Bridges and Greta Lee at an evening presentation in Comic-Con's famed Hall H. It will be the third feature film in the 'Tron' franchise that kicked off with the hit 1982 film and had a 2010 sequel, 'Tron: Legacy.' The original starred Bridges as a computer hacker who gets trapped in a digital world. The Oscar-winner drew the biggest applause when introduced during the panel. 'Tron: Ares' sees the Grid breaking through the real world. The other major presentations Friday included updates on the final season of 'Outlander' and its prequel series 'Outlander: Blood of My Blood,' 'Alien: Earth' and 'Predator: Badlands.' An estimated 135,000 people from around the globe are expected to attend Comic-Con 2025, which runs through Sunday in downtown San Diego. Your noon-hour look at what's happening in Toronto and beyond. By signing up you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc. Please try again This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Fans on opening day got a preview of 'Five Nights at Freddy's 2,' 'The Toxic Avenger,' and a joke-filled session with comedians Gabriel 'Fluffy' Iglesias and Jo Koy. 'Predator: Badlands' slays Comic-Con The Predator is on the hunt again. Director Dan Trachtenberg brought new footage from 'Predator: Badlands' to Comic-Con's Hall H, showing off an unfinished cut of the movie's first 15 minutes and bringing the film's stars. The massive convention hall erupted in cheers at clip, which featured a family of Predators fighting. The early scenes set the stakes for the movie, which is about a Predator sent on its first hunt on an unforgiving planet. Trachtenberg said one inspiration behind the movie was the realization that 'The Predator never wins.' He wanted to see what that would look like but didn't want to make a slasher film, he said. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Elle Fanning, who plays a cyborg who spends much of the film strapped to the young Predator's back, said her first foray into sci-fi presented many new acting challenges. 'I was really strapped to his back for hours and hours,' she said. While that was physically challenging, she said, at least she wasn't acting across from a tennis ball, which is often used to give actors a sense of the scale of computer-generated characters. 'Badlands' changed the Predator costume from previous iterations, keeping everything as a tangible costume except for the face. That allowed her to act opposite Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi, which Trachtenberg said allowed for more emotional range from the Predator. The movie takes place on a deadly planet where Trachtenberg said all the plants and animals are trying to kill the Predator. Moderator Kevin Smith (yes, the 'Clerks' director) likened it to 'essentially Australia in space.' This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Trachtenberg also showed a clip that will be added to the animated 'Killer of Killers' movie, which will become a new end credits scene. It shows an expansive prison of cryogenically frozen beings, three of whom are the human protagonists — all killers of Predators — from the first two 'Predator' movies and 'Prey.' The new scene was added to the film, which streams on Hulu Friday night. 'Predator: Badlands' arrives in theatres Nov. 7. 'Alien: Earth' oozes its way into Comic-Con It won't be long before audiences get to see the Xenomorph in 'Alien: Earth.' But there are some new alien life forms creator Noah Hawley will introduce in the upcoming FX series. Hawley and the cast screened the first episode for a packed Hall H at Comic-Con to cheers and a few scared noises when a new creepy-crawly alien creature claimed its first victim. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Hawley, who created the 'Fargo' series, said showing audiences new creatures is central to recapturing the feel of the original 'Alien' movie. One of the things he's good at is 'understanding what the original movie made me feel and why and trying to create it anew,' he said. Part of the power of Ridley Scott's 'Alien' is 'the discovery of the life cycle of this creature,' Hawley said. He said he was trying to capture the 'genetic revulsion of 'Alien' for the first time.' The show stars Sydney Chandler as a new life-form created when the consciousness of a young girl is transferred into an adult body with superhuman strength and speed. Asked how she reacted to seeing the Xenomorph on set for the first time, Chandler said, 'I almost peed. I became a kid again. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. 'A xenomorph was in my night terrors as a kid.' The first episode introduces the doomed crew of the USS Maginot and the aftermath its crash-landing in an Earth city after some of its specimens break free. Set in 2120, it unspools two years before the events of 'Alien.' The early moments establish the world as a place controlled by massive corporations and where humans, cyborgs and synthetic humans coexist. Babou Ceesay plays a cyborg whose mission is to protect the alien species at all costs. Humanlike, he has an arm that was likened Friday to a Swiss Army knife. But Ceesay said his character has been away from Earth for more than 60 years and isn't as advanced as he seems: 'He's coming back to a planet where he's essentially an iPhone 1 in an iPhone 20 world.' The show premieres Aug. 12 on FX. Is 'Alien vs. Predator' next? The topic of the ultimate matchup between Aliens versus Predators came up during both sessions Friday. The matchup of the two fearsome aliens has been the subject of comic books, video games and a 2004 movie. Hawley didn't spill any news about reboots. Trachtenberg, who Smith described as the keeper of the Predator franchise now, had a simple answer: 'Wouldn't it be cool?' Columnists Toronto & GTA Columnists Sunshine Girls Columnists
Gizmodo
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Gizmodo
The ‘Alien: Earth' Premiere Just Blew Away Hall H at Comic-Con
Anyone who has been to a movie recently knows that keeping people quiet to watch something together can be a struggle. Now make that number almost 7,000 people, and what happens is pure captivation as the crowd in Hall H at San Diego Comic-Con were wowed by the first episode of Alien: Earth, which comes to FX on August 12. The episode starts in a very familiar way for Alien fans before doing a complete 180 into something totally different. Almost instantly, it's clear that creator Noah Hawley both knows what you want from an Alien show and that he has to give you something new. That something new primarily centers on Wendy, played by Sydney Chandler. In the first episode, we see she's actually a child who had her consciousness transported into a superior robot body resembling an adult. It's one of the new innovations at Prodigy, one of several companies at the center of Alien: Earth as they battle a war to monetize immortality. Not what you expected from an Alien show, right? After a few twists and turns, Wendy and several other similar beings decide they want to help investigate a mysterious (and potentially lucrative) crash by a Weyland-Yutani ship in the middle of the city. That ship houses several creatures on it, including some new ones that will creep and crawl their way into your nightmares, just as they do a few soldiers near the end of the episode. We'll have more specifics on the episode when we get closer to release, but it played like gangbusters to the near 7,000-person Hall H at Comic-Con. They 'ooh'd,' they 'aah'd,' and they made it seem like this Alien: Earth show might be something special. Because the episode was so long, there wasn't a lot of time to actually talk about the show on the panel. Mostly, the attending cast, which included Sydney Chandler, Timothy Olyphant, Alex Lawther, Samuel Blenkin, and Babou Ceesay, talked about how excited they are to be part of the Alien franchise. But showrunner and creator Noah Hawley did explain a bit about how this show will be different, just on a macro scale, from an Alien movie. 'It's an 8-hour story this year, and each hour has to build and have its horror elements, but my feeling is it really has to work as a drama, and then all the genre elements can be built on top of that,' he said. 'An Alien movie is a two-hour survival story, and a television show has to be more than that. It has to be a character journey that's thematically rich and that you really start to worry that I might kill some of these people. And I might.' 'The thing that's really quite special and I think you guys are going to enjoy is that by the time you get to the third or fourth episode, the things that wake you up in the middle of the night and you're thinking about the next day are just scenes between two people,' Olyphant added. 'They're so riveting. In addition to all the thrills and the scares. the drama and character study is so phenomenal.' We'll see it all on August 12 when Alien: Earth comes to FX. Want more io9 news? Check out when to expect the latest Marvel, Star Wars, and Star Trek releases, what's next for the DC Universe on film and TV, and everything you need to know about the future of Doctor Who.
