With any fandom, there are always specific ideas about how and why things can and should work. That can be true on an individual basis, or a global basis as the fanbase argues about “canon” – what is, ...

The Alien franchise's canon was completely rewritten by its best installment since 1986's Aliens, dropping existing lore for ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Part of what made the xenomorphs so scary in the original Alien and its sequels was that nobody really knew what the xenomorphs ...

One unexpected choice in the Alien franchise's best prequel breaks a big rule of spinoffs by shattering franchise continuity, ...

Alien: Earth is set in the year 2120 CE, when a spaceship called the Maginot returns from a 65-year mission with a hold full of extra-terrestrial specimens to study. A lot has happened in its 65 years ...

"Alien: Earth" follows a group of soldiers as a ship carrying a Xenomorph crash-lands on Earth. The FX TV series is set in the same universe as the "Alien" movies. Here's when "Alien: Earth" takes ...

Alien director Ridley Scott eventually returned to the franchise, but couldn't complete his ambitious plans. Here's what his unmade movie could have been about.

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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 ...