A big, unorganized roundup of news and items we didn’t feel deserved a full blog post. Well, so much for October. Here comes November right on its heels as always, the month with bitter cold, Thanksgiving, Black Friday, and the beginning of the Christmas season. October wasn’t ...

• Ridley Scott says that his upcoming Alien prequel will take place about thirty years before the first movie , and not be about the elephantine aliens after all. That's a shame: I really want to know The Pilot's story. • James Cameron's Avatar gets a second trailer , though you've probably ...

I’m never sure how I feel about movie reboots, remakes, prequels, and sequels to long-dead franchises until I go and see the film and see if they’re any good or not. And the same is true of the Alien prequel. I am glad it’s not going to be a remake of the original, and ...

With work quietly moving along on the recently-mentioned "Alien" prequel, which we're unofficially calling Alien:Origins, Director Ridley Scott, who's returning to helm the project, chatted recently with Empire Online, and revealed to them the planned timeline of the movie. "It's a brand new box ...

Big news about Ridley Scott's Alien prequel. It's going to take place before the original! Specifically, about thirty years prior: “It’s a brand new box of tricks,” said Sir Ridley. “We know what the road map is, and the screenplay is now being put on paper. The prequel will be a while ...

Ever since the announcement that Ridley Scott would be returning to the “Alien” franchise to direct a prequel to the series, fans assumed that the film would explore how the xenomorphs arrived on LV-426, the planet where the Nostromo first encountered the creatures and the ...

It was officially confirmed back at the end of July that the creator of the Alien franchise, Sir Ridley Scott himself, would be returning to direct the prequel (at some point in the future). Since then, Scott has become attached to so many other projects, that I'm just not sure when he'll ...

Finally. The Top 5. “ Alien ” makes it to No. 5 because of its innovation (at the time) and it’s stomach-turning gore. In 1979, no movie had done what “Alien” did. It took the basic stalking/slasher story and sent it to space. We have a group of people on a ...

Directed by - Ridley Scott Genre - Science Fiction, Horror Alien was a cult sci-fi movie that was made during the late 70s by director Ridley Scott. The movie was epic and something that took the whole world by storm when it premiered on the big screen. The term ‘alien’ got its significance ...