Director Ridley Scott’s 1979 original Alien might have been a sparse, straightforward story of an unlucky spaceship crew ...

It has been quite a few years since Prometheus hit the big screen. So here’s a refresher: Most of the movie dealt with the crew of the space ship Prometheus trying to communicate with an alien ...

Tonally speaking, the “Alien” movies span several genres — mainly action, horror and operatic sci-fi. The best double as ...

The original "Alien" (1979) crew. (Image credit: Brandywine Productions) 2012's "Prometheus" was pitched as an origin story, explaining how the so-called Space Jockey (aka Engineer) found themself ...

Even though the worlds and the crashed/landed spaceships resemble each other, Prometheus is set on a planetoid with the designation LV-223, while Alien takes place on LV-426 (aka Acheron).

But the Space Jockey is not the same Engineer from Prometheus even though the ship is the same and the suit and helmet are the same. Alien takes place on the exomoon LV-426, but Prometheus happens ...

Prometheus overcomplicated the Alien movie lore, ... the mysterious fossilized “Space Jockey,” and the derelict spacecraft found on LV-426. Of course, ...

They have managed to reverse engineer it from the aliens on board the space station. ... So lifting from “Prometheus” isn’t beyond the pale. “Alien: Romulus” is in theaters now.

4. Alien: Covenant (2017) A colonizing mission deals with disaster when a ship malfunction wakes the crew earlier than expected and they end up deciding to respond to a space transmission of ...

Watch all Alien movies in order with our comprehensive list, from the 1979 original to Alien: Romulus, and including the Alien vs. Predator crossovers. In space, no one can hear you scream ...

No, you don't need to have seen Aliens to understand Alien: Romulus.This is because the new movie is set in the gap between Alien and Aliens, and so the story of the 1986 James Cameron follow-up ...