The Academy Award honoree recently revealed that he’s “rewriting the next Alien film,” which will serve as a long-awaited conclusion to his prequel trilogy that also includes Prometheus (2012) and Alien: Covenant (2017), with Michael Fassbender ‘s Walter One returning.

Ever since the original Alien film premiered in 1979, fans haven't been able to get enough of its sometimes horrifying science-fictional universe. Seven films have been released in total, and the most recent installment, Alien: Romulus unsurprisingly left ...

The arrival of FX’s new sci-fi series Alien: Earth, created by Noah Hawley, has provided an answer to one of the biggest questions fans ask whenever a new Alien project arrives — where does it fit into the franchise’s sprawling timeline? The answer ...

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Aliens have been a subject of films for over a century, and they’ve grown into a beloved and oft-revisited trope in cinema during that time. Envisioned and executed by some of the greatest filmmakers of all time, the best of these movies take audiences ...

Since purchasing 20th Century Fox for a cool $71.3 billion back in 2019, Disney has seemingly pulled off the impossible: It’s revived the Alien franchise. You might think murderous xenomorphs are an easy sell, but history says otherwise. While the ...

The timeline of the Alien franchise is a bit confusing, and even contradictory. So where does Noah Hawley’s Alien: Earth series fit in? The timeline of the Alien film franchise is, to put it mildly, a bit wild. And a lot of it is contradictory.