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 big twist in Alien: Covenant is the revelation that a character from Prometheus, Mr. Weyland’s first android prototype, “David” (Michael Fassbender), not only survived the first film, but ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In space, no one can hear you scream, but they can sure hear you scratching your head as you try to make sense of the sprawling “Alien” universe. While Ridley Scott’s 1979 haunted-house-in-the-cosmos ...

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 ...