Editor's note: The below contains spoilers for Alien: Earth Episode 2. Alien: Earth has barely begun, but is already breaking new ground in the Alien franchise — and retracing some older steps, too.

At seven feature-length films in total (without counting the Predator offshoots), the Alien franchise has chapters upon chapters of canon. What started with the characters introduced in Ridley Scott’s ...

Watching the movies and show in chronological order isn't the same as watching them in order of their release date Nothing is as it seems in the Alien universe — including its fictional timeline. For ...

The timeline of the Alien film franchise is, to put it mildly, a bit wild. And a lot of it is contradictory. (Although we must say, it’s still not as all over the place as the Halloween franchise.) ...

In space, no one can hear you scream, but they can sure hear you scratching your head as you try to make sense of the sprawling “Alien” universe. While Ridley Scott’s 1979 haunted-house-in-the-cosmos ...

The Alien movies have long attracted some big-name — or soon-to-be big-name — directors to show off their chops. After sci-fi legend Ridley Scott established the story in Alien, a pre-Titanic James ...

After Alien: Romulus proved to be a success for 20th Century Studios, grossing $350 million globally, sequel plans were quickly announced, with its director, Fede Alvarez, thought to be returning.