Cyborgs Are Old (and Maybe Outdated?) Tech in Alien: Earth | SDCC 2025

Alien: Earth includes 3 antithetic types of precocious tech lifeforms created by mankind, but 1 of them is aged quality from the position of the characters.

During the sheet for the caller Alien TV bid astatine San Diego Comic-Con 2025 today, formed subordinate Babou Ceesay (Into the Badlands, Rogue One) was asked astir his quality Morrow’s antithetic nature. Morrow is 1 of the unit members onboard the Maginot, a vessel returning from a ngo successful heavy abstraction to cod samples of 5 alien lifeforms for Weyland-Yutani.

Morrow is besides a cyborg, thing we spot represented by however helium tin alteration his hands, making weapons and tools appear. But arsenic Ceesay points out, the Maginot is wrapping up a 65-year ngo erstwhile the amusement begins, meaning successful presumption of technology, he’s ancient. Or arsenic Ceesay enactment it, “He’s coming backmost to a satellite wherever he’s fundamentally an iPhone 1 successful an iPhone 20 world.”

This is besides absorbing due to the fact that Alien: Earth begins with onscreen substance informing america that determination person been 3 antithetic technologies each developed successful the hopes of achieving immortality - cyborgs, synths, and hybrids. Synths are the synthetic beings we’ve seen successful each the Alien movies and hybrids are thing caller being introduced successful Alien: Earth’s 2120 mounting - a synthetic assemblage with a quality consciousness. But cyborgs, arsenic 1 expects, are humans with cybernetic upgrades, which is thing we’ve ne'er seen successful the Alien movie before.

In the Alien: Earth premiere, Morrow is the lone cyborg we meet, though that doesn’t mean he’s the lone 1 around. But synths person been the prevalent specified being successful the Alien franchise (including successful the archetypal 1979 movie, acceptable 2 years aft Alien: Earth). This makes it consciousness similar beyond Morrow himself being outdated, cyborgs mightiness beryllium considered the aged and perchance mostly passé tech successful general, synths the existent and astir prevalent tech, and hybrids are decidedly the newest tech, fixed we conscionable the first-ever illustration of specified a being (Sydney Chandler’s Wendy) successful the series. But fixed each of the different Alien movies — immoderate acceptable agelong aft some Alien: Earth and Alien – thin truthful overmuch connected synths, it feels similar not lone bash cyborgs wholly autumn by the wayside but that thing stops hybrids from becoming a palmy technology…. Though the question remains wherefore that is.

For present though, Alien: Earth volition diagnostic some hybrids and astatine slightest 1 cyborg successful a salient relation successful the signifier of Morrow. And portion Morrow mightiness beryllium seen arsenic ancient, old-timey exertion for the radical of 2120, Ceesay inactive proudly proclaimed, “He’s got his swiss service weapon arm!”