When Ridley Scott surprised audiences with Prometheus in 2012, fans weren't sure at first whether the science-fiction epic was an Alien prequel or not. Online rumors, not to mention Scott himself, had ...

The timeline of the Alien film franchise is, to put it mildly, a bit wild. And a lot of it is contradictory. (Although we must say, it’s still not as all over the place as the Halloween franchise.) ...

The start of the Covenant's fateful journey. In the Alien: Covenant film that follows the events of Prometheus, the USCSS Covenant is on a journey to Origae-6, a habitable planet where terraformist ...

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The Alien franchise has lived and died many times over the years. Currently, it’s in a particularly prolific era, with last year’s theatrical hit Alien: Romulus becoming the biggest entry in years and ...

Ridley Scott made his own sequel to Prometheus, but last year’s Alien: Romulus serves as a much more faithful and satisfying sequel than Scott’s own Alien: Covenant. Prometheus marked Scott’s ...

Michael Fassbender is open to appearing in a sequel to ‘Alien: Covenant’. The 47-year-old actor starred in director Sir Ridley Scott’s ‘Alien’ prequels ‘Prometheus’ and ‘Covenant’ as the androids ...

Alien: Covenant was unfairly dismissed as a ho-hum retread, but it was a deliciously bloody return to the horror roots of the franchise. Ridley Scott took a bold approach by blending horror and ...

Alien: Earth is set in the year 2120 CE, when a spaceship called the Maginot returns from a 65-year mission with a hold full of extra-terrestrial specimens to study. A lot has happened in its 65 years ...

The Alien franchise has made some divisive choices in the 40 years since the release of Aliens in 1986, but this far-reaching fan theory has a fantastic explanation for these controversial events.

They're baaaaack, and as peevish as ever. Well, not exactly. To say that the nasty aliens in Ridley Scott's eponymous franchise have returned is wrong. His new movie, "Alien: Covenant," is a prequel, ...