Ridley Scott and his team had to decide whether to bring the Alien back or invent something else for this latest instalment, writes Susan Griffin IN Alien’s terrifying Xenomorph, Ridley Scott believes ...

The colony ship Covenant is headed for Origae-6, a distant planet where 2,000 men and women will begin a new life. A freak accident causes the crew to awaken early from hypersleep and with the ship ...

It's safe to say that Alien not only defined the sci-fi horror genre, it's pretty much been at the top of it since the first entry in 1979. Since then, the sequels that followed - Aliens, Alien 3, ...

That much-pondered trailer seemed to suggest that, after the indifferently received Prometheus, Ridley Scott had gone back to basics for the latest Alien film. Scott has cast his film effectively.

If the new trailer for Alien: Covenant represents Ridley Scott's upcoming film in any way accurately, then those allergic to "spoilers" should run quickly in the opposite direction (from both the ...

Set 10 years on from the events in Prometheus, Alien: Covenant is a worthy sequel but takes away a valuable layer of mystery from the original Alien by becoming a sort of xenomorph origin story (don't ...

The Alien franchise is one of the most important in all of sci-fi cinema, with each instalment charting the evolution of the ...

Ridley Scott's gory sci-fi prequel is a welcome return to form Paranoid android: Michael Fassbender in Alien: Covenant When Ridley Scott returned to the Alien franchise in 2012 after a gap of 33 years ...

Mercifully it didn’t come to that as Scott decided to start again five years ago with Prometheus, a prequel to the original Alien, set some 20 years before Sigourney Weaver’s Ripley confronted the ...

Undated Film Still Handout from Alien Covenant. Pictured: Michael Fassbender as David/Walter. See PA Feature FILM Scott. Picture credit should read: PA Photo/Fox UK. WARNING: This picture must only be ...