It’s had a long journey to the screen but at last we have our first look at the TV series The Man Who Fell to Earth. The upcoming series is based on the novel of the same name by Walter Tevis. But it has one major caveat: It follows a new alien who comes crashing down on earth. There isn’t too much to glean from the teaser, beyond giving us a lot of emotion and quick shows of people looking awed. Still, it possesses that sweeping energy that has us entranced. And Chiwetel Ejiofor, who is always the right choice.
So far, Showtime is keeping the full plot details under wraps, offering a simple description: “An alien who arrives on Earth at a turning point in human evolution and must confront his own past to determine our future.”
Ejiofor plays Faraday, the humanoid alien who crashes down on Earth. Naomie Harris is Justin Falls, who, per Showtime, is “a brilliant scientist and engineer who must conquer her own demons in the race to save two worlds.”
While there’s still a lot we don’t know about the upcoming series we do know one thing for sure: it’s not a straight adaptation of the novel. So certainly not a redo of the 1976 film starring David Bowie. There is but one Thomas Jerome Newton and that is the Thin White Duke himself. But knowing that opens a lot of doors for the series. Including setting itself up as a very loose continuation—pulling from the novel and the film as needed to create an in-universe history. We could reasonably assume that Ejiofor’s character isn’t the first alien to touch down on Earth in the series’ universe. So maybe he arrives just a few decades after his fellow alien Newton.
Alex Kurtzman and Jenny Lumet developed the series and serve as showrunners and executive producers. The series also stars Jimmi Simpson, Clarke Peters, Rob Delaney, Joana Ribeiro and Annelle Olaleye.
The series was initially set for Hulu, but shifted to Paramount+—then known as CBS All Access—after a series of production disagreements that emerged after Disney’s purchased Fox. But Showtime, who shares a parent company with Paramount+, is the show’s final home.
Showtime hasn’t specified a release date for The Man Who Fell to Earth yet. But it arrives later this Spring.
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