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If you've seen the latest Alien interquel, Alien: Romulus, then you likely caught some of the biggest connections to the larger franchise. Set in between the original Alien and its direct sequel ...

The opening moments of Prometheus present a visually breathtaking but puzzling prologue. Viewers witness a lone Engineer on what appears to be a primordial Earth, positioned beside a thundering ...

Alien: Romulus director Fede Álvarez has explained the film's major connection to the franchise's previous revival, Prometheus. Ridley Scott's prequel (as well as Alien: Convenant) delves into the ...

Released on Friday (16 August), the film is the seventh entry in the 45-year-old Alien franchise, which began in 1979 with Ridley Scott's sci-fi classic. Álvarez explained that his son had connected ...

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: Romulus” is here, and the movie – about a group of young people (Cailee Spaeny, David Jonsson, Archie Renaux, Isabela Merced, Spike Fearn and Aileen Wu) who travel to a derelict space station, ...