To call Ridley Scott’s 1979 film Alien a seminal work feels like an understatement. Not only did the original film beget numerous sequels, prequels, and spinoffs over the course of decades, but it has ...

When we imagine alien life, we picture monsters, insects, or tentacles—but what if the most realistic aliens are human-like? Evolution tends to solve the same problems with similar designs, and ...

It’s hard to fathom that a franchise as storied as Alien hasn’t been guided by some stalwart producer with long-term plans to turn it into an inexhaustible goldmine. But, when looking at series ...