What Is The Man Who Fell To Earth About? What Happens In The Man Who Fell To Earth?

Developed by Jenny Lumet (Star Trek: Picard) and Alex Kurtzman (Transformers), The Man Who Fell To Earth follows an alien played by Chiwetel Ejiofor (12 Years a Slave) who arrives on Earth at a turning point in human evolution and must confront his tragic past while holding the fate of mankind in his hands.

He finds the one woman (Naomie Harris) who can help save his species. Together they discover that in order to save his world, they must first save ours.

Justin Falls (Naomie Harris), a once-promising scientist who ran away from her career after a personal tragedy.

Now she cleans up hazardous waste near the Los Alamos National Laboratory for cash she uses to pay her ill father Josiah’s (Clarke Peters) medical bills and care for her daughter Molly (Annelle Olaleye).

She has no idea who Faraday is or why he lists her as an emergency contact, but will she soften to him over time, in a nod to the original novel? Probably! Faraday’s mission involves finding a mysterious genius named Thomas Jerome Newton (Nighy), whose patents in the 1970s and ’80s revolutionized the tech world — before he disappeared, leaving a 10th patent written in an ancient language no one can understand but which the U.S. government fiercely covets.

As Faraday and Justin team up to investigate the company Newton created, Origin, which is now based in London and run by seeming baddie Edie Flood (Sonya Cassidy), they’re trailed by CIA agent Spencer Clay (Jimmi Simpson), a certified maniac who gets off on irritating waitresses with his overly complex dinner orders and smashing butterflies to death.