In the lead-up to Alien: Earth, creator Noah Hawley clarified that the new series doesn't require deep knowledge of the entire Alien franchise continuity. Instead, he focused on themes and ideas from the original films, especially those depicting the corporate dynamics of Weyland-Yutani. He feels other parts of the canon, like those from Prometheus, are not essential to the narrative. His approach is to engage with the core of the original movies while intentionally creating a fresh perspective on the franchise.
For something that's this old that's had this many movies that's jumped around in time periods, that if you try to chase it all or observe it all, you'll go mad.
I think my blueprint for the show was the first couple of movies because I wanted to engage with that original idea.
The events of Alien: Earth deal with various warring mega-corporations on Earth, so Hawley focused on the canon of Weyland-Yutani from the second film.
Hawley didn't find the origin story of the xenomorphs from Prometheus and Alien: Covenant to be 'useful' to his story.
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