Few narrative dead-ends in sci-fi have been as frustrating as the Alien franchise abandoning Prometheus. Prometheus saw Ridley Scott return to the universe he launched with Alien, expanding the scope ...

Alien: Earth was only just renewed for a second season, but it's already poised to repeat one of Prometheus' worst mistakes. Alien: Earth is, by almost every measure, a big success. It has 94% ...

Ridley Scott believes the Alien film series was dead and buried before he made 2012's Prometheus. The British filmmaker directed the original Alien, released in 1979, which followed the crew of a ...

Chris is a Senior News Writer for Collider. He can be found in an IMAX screen, with his eyes watering and his ears bleeding for his own pleasure. He joined the news team in 2022 and accidentally fell ...

The timing stands out. Scott has said he wants to return to Alien, and that means circling back to David’s unresolved story after Alien: Covenant. All of this comes as The Dog Stars has opened weakly ...

Big things have small beginnings. But Prometheus was a wrecking ball of expectations from the very moment the idea of it burst out of 20th Century Fox. What happens when a legendary director returns ...

It’s hard to overstate the profound impact of Ridley Scott on modern visual media. His style and techniques permeate genres and mediums beyond quantification. They’re backed into the identity of ...

In 1979, Ridley Scott took a trip into a nightmarish region of space (fuelled by the real nightmares of H.R. Giger) and returned with a petrified crew and an extra passenger they'd rather not have ...

Iconic filmmaker Ridley Scott built the Alien universe, so apparently he figures he's earned the right to haunt it, too.