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The Alien franchise is about scarier things than terrifying chest-bursting Xenomorphs or even cold, calculating synthetic beings. Like, for instance, corporations. Starting with Ridley Scott’s 1979 ...

When the universe as we know it collapses, the only creatures with a chance of surviving to see the next age would be akin to Ridley Scott’s xenomorphs. Like the “Alien” franchise itself, they’re ...

In 1979 when director Ridley Scott and screenwriter Dan O'Bannon introduced audiences to their space-set, haunted house film, Alien, creating a franchise wasn't even on their minds. An original story, ...