3 Great Ideas For the Next Alien Movie That Don’t Just Repeat It All Again

The creators of the Alien franchise probably have no shortage of ideas for where the series should go, but here are some more ...
Dread Central

‘Alien 5’ — Sigourney Weaver Says Neil Blomkamp’s Sequel Died Because “Ridley Scott decided to be very possessive”

If I had a nickel for every film that fell through in Hollywood, I’d be as rich as those jerks at Weyland Yutani. Thus was the case for District 9 director Neill Blomkamp’s once highly anticipated ...
New York Post

‘Alien’ DNA found inside humans — it was inserted into our genes, bonkers new study claims

Is it the invasion of the genome snatchers? Just in case the idea of aliens walking around in human skin suits wasn’t frightening enough. An outlandish study asserts that aliens might have abducted us ...
Polygon

5 things I loved about Alien: Earth (and 5 more that I hated)

Alien: Earth definitely gets a lot right, but after watching the season 1 finale, I'm torn, because it gets a lot of things wrong, too. There's clear commitment to certain aspects of the Alien ...
Salon

“Alien: Earth” warns us to be careful of the monsters we make

For all his proclaimed genius, Prodigy CEO Boy Kavalier (Samuel Blenkin) failed to account for the probability that his Hybrid creation, Wendy (Sydney Chandler), would turn on him. Many “Alien: Earth” ...
Variety

‘Alien: Earth’ Creator Noah Hawley on Wendy’s Endgame, That Alien Eyeball and Waiting for a Season 2 Renewal

SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers from “The Real Monsters,” the Season 1 finale of “Alien: Earth,” now streaming on Hulu. “Alien: Earth” has come in for a landing — and the kids are in ...
nerdist

ALIEN: EARTH Turned Xenomorphs Into Trained Pets

In the decades since the Alien franchise began, we’ve never seen the Xenomorphs as anything but pure killing machines. It was the shark in Jaws, only more terrifying-looking. And much like the shark ...
Space.com

'Alien: Earth' has the right approach to canon — pick-and-choose and ignore the bits that don't work

Fiction, by its very definition, isn't real. A character can have an entire lifetime of backstory, the politics and geography of their made-up homeworld a matter of record, but none of it would exist ...
Gizmodo

Fede Álvarez Wrote the ‘Alien: Romulus’ Sequel to Avoid an ‘Alien 3’ Situation

He's already said he's not directing the 'Alien: Romulus' follow-up—but he had a very good reason for wanting to write its script. Reading time 2 minutes Alien: Earth just dropped a chest-burstingly ...
Inverse

The Next Alien Sequel Is Losing The Franchise's New Secret Weapon

The Alien movies have long attracted some big-name — or soon-to-be big-name — directors to show off their chops. After sci-fi legend Ridley Scott established the story in Alien, a pre-Titanic James ...
Variety

‘Alien: Romulus’ Director Fede Álvarez Not Returning for Sequel: ‘I’m Gonna Pass the Torch on This One’

Fede Alvarez, who reinvigorated the “Alien” franchise on the big screen last year with “Alien: Romulus,” won’t be returning for the sequel, he revealed. Speaking to TooFab, Alvarez said he will stay ...