When Sigourney Weaver first brought Ellen Ripley to life in 1979’s Alien, she redefined what a hero in science fiction could be: resourceful, resilient, and human, even in the face of monsters beyond ...

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Warning: spoilers for "Alien: Romulus" follow. In 2012, Ridley Scott's "Prometheus" arrived in theaters. The sci-fi film was a big deal: it marked Scott's return to the "Alien" franchise for the first ...

Alien: Earth showrunner Noah Hawley clearly didn’t think the franchise was doing enough with the implications of its title. Ridley Scott’s Alien (1979) imagined the kind of nightmare lifeforms that ...