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79-485: Star Trek: Klingon Empire is series of interlinked Klingon-centric Star Trek novels written by Keith DeCandido . The series was published by Pocket Books from 2003 to 2008. Originally published as Star Trek: I.K.S. Gorkon . Following positive reaction to his novel Diplomatic Implausibility (2001), DeCandido was curious if there was sufficient interest in a Klingon-centric series. In Voyages of Imagination (2009) by Jeff Ayers, DeCandido said "Pocket Books …

158-564: A Star Trek fan even before his birth, as his parents were fans of Star Trek: The Original Series . DeCandido attended New Rochelle Academy and Halstead School, and then Cardinal Spellman High School in the Bronx before attending Fordham University. While attending Fordham University , DeCandido worked as an editor and writer of one of the college newspapers , called simply the paper . After graduation, DeCandido worked as editor at several publishing companies. Along with John S. Drew, in

237-503: A comic book, and Babylon 5 . DeCandido also writes reviews and commentary for Tor.com, including reviews of many of TV adaptions of comic books and of the new Star Trek shows Star Trek: Discovery , Star Trek: Picard , Star Trek: Lower Decks , Star Trek: Strange New Worlds , Star Trek: Prodigy , and Short Treks . DeCandido is an avid baseball fan, particularly of the New York Yankees . He has contributed in

316-470: A handful, including Ripley and Newt, escape. Immediately following the events of Aliens , the military ship USS Sulaco , carrying the survivors, catches fire. The occupants are ejected in an escape pod, which crash-lands on the refinery/prison planet Fiorina "Fury" 161. All on board except Ripley are killed. An alien facehugger is also aboard, and impregnates an animal with an alien, which soon begins killing inmates and wardens. Ripley discovers an alien queen

395-516: A high-fantasy police procedural; urban fantasy short stories set in Key West about a weirdness magnet named Cassie Zukav, who learns she is a Dís ; the Adventures of Bram Gold, urban fantasy novels set in the Bronx ; Super City Cops, novels, novellas, and short stories featuring cops in a city filled with superheroes; and Supernatural Crimes Unit , an urban fantasy series debuting in 2025 from

474-476: A hostile, endoparasitoid , extraterrestrial species. Humanity is depicted as a space-faring species with an interstellar dominion; space journeys typically last months, even years, and require the use of cryosleep . Throughout the series, characters are repeatedly manipulated and endangered by the unscrupulous megacorporation Weyland-Yutani Corp, which seeks to profit from the Aliens. The series fictionalizes

553-595: A large lethal creature, which the surviving crew attempt to kill. The Nostromo is destroyed in an unsuccessful attempt to kill the creature, leaving Ellen Ripley as the only survivor in the ship's lifeboat. After 57 years in hypersleep , Ripley awakens aboard a medical space station orbiting Earth. She recounts the events of the Nostromo but is disbelieved by her superiors in the Weyland Yutani corporation, which has now begun to terraform and colonise LV-426,

632-428: A mired production, with extensive script difficulties, trouble securing a director, production beginning prior to the completion of a final script, as well as profuse studio interference. While fans and critics initially did not receive Alien 3 well, and director David Fincher disowned it, the film was a worldwide success and piqued Fox's interest in continuing the franchise. The Assembly Cut, which restored many of

711-586: A model of a compliant, potentially self-aware machine. The portrayal of androids in the Alien series—Ash in Alien , Bishop in Aliens and Alien 3 , and Call ( Winona Ryder ) in Alien Resurrection (1997)—has been studied for its implications relating to how humans deal with the presence of an " Other ", as Ripley treats them with fear and suspicion, and a form of "hi-tech racism and android apartheid"

790-560: A number of spin-offs – most notably the Alien vs. Predator series, which combines the continuities of the Alien franchise with the Predator franchise and consists of two films as well as various series of comics, books, and video games. The Alien franchise depicts a series of deadly encounters, predominantly spanning the 22nd and 24th centuries, between humanity and the Xenomorph ;

869-455: A sequel without the Ripley character. Fox's president Joe Roth opposed Ripley's removal, and Weaver was offered a $ 5 million salary and a producer credit to make Alien 3 . Giler, Hill and Larry Ferguson wrote the screenplay, based on a story from an earlier script by Vincent Ward , intended to bring closure to the Alien franchise by killing off Ripley, the principal character. Alien 3 faced

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948-482: A star map among the remnants of several ancient Earth cultures. Accompanied by David 8 and hoping to discover the origins of humanity , they journey aboard the spaceship USCSS Prometheus and arrive on the distant planet LV-223 in the Zeta Reticuli system, the same region of space in which the planetoid LV-426 from Alien is found. There they discover the ancient remains of an advanced civilization, called

1027-502: A third Alien vs. Predator could still happen, indicating the studio's interest in both franchises. In 2004, a Predator mothership arrives in Earth orbit to draw humans to an ancient Predator training ground on Bouvetøya , an island about one thousand miles north of Antarctica . A buried pyramid giving off a "heat bloom" attracts a group of explorers led by billionaire and self-taught engineer Charles Bishop Weyland ( Lance Henriksen ),

1106-500: A treatment titled Alien: Earthbound . Fox executives were impressed by the script, having read it after Alien Resurrection had entered post-production. According to Sigourney Weaver, Joss Whedon had written an Earth-set script for Alien 5 , but Weaver was not interested and wanted it to be set on the original planetoid. She has remained open to a role on the condition that she likes the story. Before 20th Century Fox greenlit Alien vs. Predator , James Cameron had been collaborating on

1185-480: Is growing inside her, and is determined to kill both herself and the creature before Weyland Yutani can exploit them. Two hundred years after the events of Alien 3 , several clones of Ripley, including the alien queen she was carrying, are grown by the military aboard the USM Auriga . The military intends to exploit the aliens, and uses humans kidnapped and delivered to them by a group of mercenaries as hosts for

1264-466: Is present throughout the series. This is seen as part of a larger trend of technophobia in films prior to the 1990s, with Bishop's role being particularly significant as he redeems himself at the end of Aliens , thus confounding Ripley's expectations. There have been dozens of stand-alone releases of the individual films on various formats, including Betamax , VHS , Laserdisc , DVD , and Blu-ray . The multiple single releases on VHS were generally

1343-417: Is revealed that he brought Shaw to the planet, where he killed all non-floral life and began experimenting on Shaw's corpse to engineer his own breeds of Aliens. His motive to replace human life with Aliens is made apparent, and with the birth of yet another new breed of Alien, a terraforming expert named Daniels and the remaining crew are forced to flee from the world. After disposing of the Aliens chasing them,

1422-531: Is then taken to a Ms. Cullen Yutani of the Yutani Corporation, foreshadowing an advance in technology leading to the future events of the Alien films. Development of a prequel story began in the early 2000s when both Ridley Scott and James Cameron started to develop ideas for a story that would explore the origins of the Alien. In 2002, the development of Alien vs. Predator had taken precedence and

1501-583: The Destiny (2008) miniseries, by David Mack , and in A Singular Destiny (2008), by DeCandido. The IKS  Gorkon is a Qang -class, or Chancellor -class, war cruiser named for Chancellor Gorkon first introduced in The Undiscovered Country (1991). The cruiser is 500 m (1,600 ft) in length, and carries a complement of over 2,000 crew. When launched, the Gorkon , was among

1580-891: The Star Trek anthologies New Frontier: No Limits (with Peter David ), Tales of the Dominion War , and Tales from the Captain's Table . In 2009, DeCandido was named Grandmaster by the International Association of Media Tie-In Writers. He has written rewatches for Reactor Magazine (formerly Tor.com) since 2011, including Star Trek: The Original Series , Star Trek: The Next Generation , Star Trek: Deep Space Nine , Star Trek: Voyager , Star Trek: Enterprise , Stargate , Batman 1966, "4-Color to 35-Millimeter: The Great Superhero Movie Rewatch," about every live-action superhero movie based on

1659-431: The Alien story. After Cameron's The Terminator became a box office hit in 1984, Cameron and partner Gale Anne Hurd were given approval to direct and produce the sequel to Alien , scheduled for a 1986 release. Cameron wrote the screenplay for Aliens from a story he developed with Giler and Walter Hill. Following the second film, Weaver was not interested in returning to the series, so Giler and Hill commissioned

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1738-561: The Alien ("Xenomorph") , and the prequel series following the exploits of the David 8 android ( Michael Fassbender ) and the aliens referred to as the "Engineers". Produced and distributed by 20th Century Studios , the series began with Alien (1979), directed by Ridley Scott , and was followed by three sequels: Aliens (1986), directed by James Cameron ; Alien 3 (1992), directed by David Fincher ; and Alien Resurrection (1997), directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet . Scott also directed

1817-496: The Alien Quadrilogy set (see below), each film received individual two-disc releases containing the content of each film from that set. Since then, there have been multiple issues and reissues of the films, in both their theatrical or extended version, though some single releases include both. In addition to the single releases, there have been seven complete box sets of the series at various points in its history. With

1896-611: The Audible Original audio play adaptation of Alien: Out of the Shadows was released. On Alien Day 2017, 20th Century Fox released "The Crossing" prologue short film for Alien: Covenant , and the Audible Original audio play adaptation of Alien: River of Pain was released. From March 19 to 22, 2019, North Bergen High School (New Jersey, US) staged an adaptation of Alien entitled Alien: The Play , which

1975-400: The acquisition of 21st Century Fox by The Walt Disney Company , it was officially confirmed at the 2019 CinemaCon that future Alien films are in development. In May 2019, Variety reported that the third prequel film was "in the script phase", with Ridley Scott attached to serve once again as director. In September 2020, Scott confirmed that work on the next installment is ongoing, but

2054-554: The 1990s he co-produced a public-access television cable TV show in Manhattan about science fiction called The Chronic Rift , which he also co-hosted. DeCandido and Drew and others revived the show as a podcast in 2008. DeCandido also used to host his own monthly podcast, Dead Kitchen Radio , on hiatus as of February 2019. While DeCandido spent much of his career writing Star Trek fiction, he has written tie-ins for other popular sci-fi and fantasy series as well, such as Buffy

2133-510: The 40th anniversary of the Alien franchise. By March 2019, the details of the short films were released. Tongal co-founder and CEO James DeJulio stated that the joint-production is "reflective of Tongal's mission to bring creative opportunities to the next generation of talent." The shorts were released weekly on IGN , after which they were uploaded to the Alien Universe web page, as well as all Alien social media pages on May 5 of

2212-541: The Engineers (apparently the same race as the dead pilot from the derelict ship in Alien ), who were developing biological weapons in the form of a pathogenic mutagen which could have driven the human race extinct. The horrors they encounter result in the loss of the crew except for David and Shaw. Eleven years after the events of Prometheus , the colony ship USCSS Covenant , carrying thousands of colonists and hundreds of human embryos in cryo-stasis, makes its way towards

2291-405: The Ripley character via human cloning . The film, directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet , experienced an extended production, and screenwriter Joss Whedon later said that he thought it had done "everything wrong" with his script. The film was released in 1997 to mixed reviews and modest box office returns. It has since gained fans for its camp style and dark humor . On its way back to Earth,

2370-528: The Vampire Slayer , Doctor Who , Supernatural , Stargate SG-1 , Sleepy Hollow , Farscape , and Leverage as well as comic books ( Spider-Man , X-Men ), movies ( Cars , Serenity , Alien ), role-playing games ( Dungeons & Dragons ), and video games ( World of Warcraft , StarCraft , Command & Conquer , Resident Evil ). He has also written fiction in universes of his own creation: Dragon Precinct and its sequels,

2449-628: The Weird Tales Presents imprint of Blackstone Publishing . He has also edited or co-edited various anthologies, including OtherWere (with Laura Anne Gilman ), Urban Nightmares (with Josepha Sherman ), Imaginings , Double Trouble: An Anthology of Two-Fisted Team-Ups (with Jonathan Maberry ), The Four ???? of the Apocalypse (with Wrenn Simms), the Doctor Who collection Short Trips: The Quality of Leadership , and

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2528-399: The alien creature's adult form and the derelict ship, while French artist Mœbius created the look of the spacesuits and Ron Cobb provided most of the industrial design for the sets. While Alien was a critical and financial success upon its 1979 release, Fox did not consider a sequel until 1983. That year, James Cameron expressed his interest to producer David Giler in continuing

2607-461: The cataloging of in-universe elements and supplemental works concerning the development of the franchise. These include works by special effects company Amalgamated Dynamics Incorporated (ADI), which assisted with the effects in Alien 3 and Alien Resurrection . Several novelizations of each of the six films and some comic books as well as original canonical novels based on the franchise have been released. The original novels include Alien: Out of

2686-476: The comics series included with the action figures as well as in the Aliens/Predator Universe trading cards set. In 2007, Ain't It Cool News reported that a (since then cancelled) animated series inspired by the 1986 film Aliens titled Aliens: War Games was being produced. On December 10, 2020, as part of Disney's Investor Day presentation, a new TV series project based on the franchise

2765-519: The commercial towing vehicle Nostromo is diverted to a desolate planetoid by a cryptic signal from a derelict alien spacecraft. Inside the alien ship, the crew discovers thousands of egg-like objects. A creature, released from one of the eggs, attaches itself to a crewman's face, rendering him unconscious. The others break quarantine to return him to the Nostromo . The parasite dies and the crewman wakes up, seemingly unaffected. Soon afterwards, an alien organism bursts from his chest and grows rapidly into

2844-459: The crew members return to the Covenant and are put back into cryosleep by someone they believe to be their shipboard synthetic, Walter. Only when Daniels is put in her cryopod does she realize that Walter has been replaced by the identical David. With the crew, colonists, and embryos at his mercy, David contacts Weyland-Yutani back on Earth, stating that while the majority of the crew was killed in

2923-483: The ensuing battle with an Alien, while the third allies itself with the lone surviving human, Alexa "Lex" Woods ( Sanaa Lathan ), while making their way out of the pyramid as it is destroyed by the Predator's wrist bomb and eventually does battle with the escaped Alien Queen on the surface. The Queen is defeated by being dragged down by a water tower into the dark depths of the frozen sea, but not before she fatally wounds

3002-596: The exception of the DVD version of the Aliens Triple Pack , each release contained all films that had come out at the time the sets were released. The seven box sets each had unique characteristics and features which were then sometimes reused in later sets or single releases in one form or another, most notably the Blu-ray Anthology , which includes a detailed archive of many previous releases, including

3081-423: The film completed by James Cameron just for this release, which was a significantly extended version of the film. The films made their DVD debut in 1999, both as part of a boxed set (see Alien Legacy below) and as separate single-disc releases of each film ( Aliens was only available in its "Special Edition" cut, not its original theatrical cut, which did not make it to DVD until the next boxed set). Following

3160-790: The first of the Qang -class cruisers in service. A Good Day to Die (2003) begins sometime after Chancellor Martok ordered the Gorkon to the Kavrot Sector—an unexplored region of space—with the objective of finding new planets to conquer for the glory of the Empire . Captain Klag , captain of the Gorkon , was introduced in The Next Generation episode " A Matter of Honor ". All novels written by Keith DeCandido. Captain Klag's history

3239-408: The first two Alien films by taking place after Aliens and foregoing involvement with the other two sequels. This was canceled in favor of Scott's own untitled third prequel (also purportedly titled Alien: Awakening ). In February 2019, James Cameron stated that he was working on reviving Blomkamp's project. In June 2020, Brandywine Productions revealed that a screenplay for a new installment in

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3318-468: The franchise. ( Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures ) Figures in this table are not inflation adjusted. Where two different figures are quoted for box office grosses, information is taken from two different sources. Alien was nominated for two Academy Awards , winning for Best Visual Effects. Aliens received seven nominations, including a Best Actress nomination for Sigourney Weaver, and won for Best Visual Effects and Best Sound Effects. Alien 3

3397-443: The franchise. Writer Dan O'Bannon , wanting to write a science-fiction action film, collaborated with screenwriter Ronald Shusett on a script, initially titled Star Beast , but eventually changed to Alien . Brandywine Productions , a company which had a distribution deal with 20th Century Fox, bought the script. The writers expected it to be a low-budget film, but the success of Star Wars inclined Fox to invest millions. In

3476-525: The game. Alien: Isolation is set in 2137, 15 years after the events of Alien and 42 years prior to Aliens , following Amanda Ripley , who is investigating the disappearance of her mother, Ellen Ripley, as she is transferred to the space station Sevastopol to find the flight recorder of the Nostromo only to discover an Alien has terrorized the station, killing the vast majority of the crew. Andrea Deck reprises her role as Amanda Ripley. This section includes characters who will appear or have appeared in

3555-433: The infestation. When it arrives, the Predator tracks the Aliens into a section of the sewer below the town. He removes evidence of their presence as he moves along using a corrosive blue liquid and uses a laser net to try to contain the creatures, but the Aliens still manage to escape into the town above. The Predator fashions a plasma pistol from its remaining plasma caster and hunts Aliens all across town, accidentally cutting

3634-496: The last Predator. The orbiting Predator mothership uncloaks and the crew retrieves the fallen Predator. A Predator elder gives Lex a spear as a sign of respect, and then departs. Once in orbit it is revealed that an Alien Chestburster was present within the corpse, thus a Predalien hybrid is born. Set immediately after the events of the previous film, the Predalien hybrid aboard the Predator scout ship, having just separated from

3713-424: The launch of a film franchise with the release of Alien vs. Predator in 2004, followed by Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem in 2007. The franchise has spawned various comics, novels, video games, and other merchandise based upon or inspired by the films. A third film has been variously rumored since the production of Requiem . In mid-2018, Shane Black , the director of The Predator , expressed his belief that

3792-515: The mothership shown in the previous film, has grown to full adult size and sets about killing the Predators aboard the ship, causing it to crash in the small town of Gunnison, Colorado . The last surviving Predator activates a distress beacon containing a video recording of the Predalien, which is received by a veteran Predator on the Predator homeworld, who sets off towards Earth to "clean up"

3871-401: The neutrino blast, they would continue to Origae-6. In March 2022, The Hollywood Reporter reported that Hulu would release a new Alien film, initially reported as a standalone entry in the franchise, to be directed by Fede Álvarez and produced by Ridley Scott . Álvarez had pitched the idea to Scott years prior. It was later clarified that the film was an interquel . Cailee Spaeny

3950-445: The origin of the human race. A member of an ancient humanoid species, called the "Engineers", sacrifices himself, allowing his DNA to spark the genesis of mankind. The Engineers' other experiments, designed to exterminate the human race through the means of a deadly mutagen, pave the way for the Aliens to rise and populate through the traumatic implantation of larvae in hosts. Incidents across several generations are chronicled throughout

4029-425: The original founder and CEO of Weyland Industries, who unknowingly activates an Alien egg production line as a hibernating Alien Queen is awakened within the pyramid. Three Predators descend to the planet and enter the structure, killing all humans in their way with the intention of hunting the newly formed Aliens, while the scattered explorers are captured alive by Aliens and implanted with embryos. Two Predators die in

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4108-576: The original script, the ship had an all-male crew, though it noted that all roles could be played by men or women without major changes to the film. The Ripley character was initially to be played by Tom Skerritt , but when Fox president Alan Ladd Jr. and the producers at Brandywine heard rumors of Fox working on other titles with strong female leads, it was decided to cast a female as Ripley and Skerritt became Captain Dallas. Ridley Scott came on as director. Swiss painter and sculptor H. R. Giger designed

4187-474: The original series called Alien V , centered around Ripley, had been written by Walter Hill and David Giler. In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter published in September 2022, Hill confirmed that the proposed alternative sequel involving Weaver would not be moving forward. Blomkamp reused some of his proposed concepts for Alien V in his short film Rakka , also starring Sigourney Weaver. After

4266-410: The original theatrical cuts of each film. Laserdisc saw single releases of all theatrical versions, as well as two so-called " box sets " which only contained one film (there were two single releases, one each for Alien and Aliens ) but had multiple discs and a large amount of supplemental material with a high retail price tag (around US$ 100). The Aliens set included a new "Special Edition" cut of

4345-655: The past to both the Replacement Level Yankees Weblog and Pinstripe Alley, and he currently serves as an occasional freelance editor for the Society for American Baseball Research . Alien (franchise) This is an accepted version of this page Alien is a science fiction horror and action media franchise centered on the original film series which depicts warrant officer Ellen Ripley ( Sigourney Weaver ) and her battles with an extraterrestrial lifeform , commonly referred to as

4424-542: The planet Origae-6. The crew is awakened by a neutrino blast and intercepts a transmission sent from Shaw, which they decide to trace to an apparently habitable Engineer home world (referred to as Planet 4), devoid of all non-floral life. When several crew members are infected by the same mutagen encountered by the Prometheus crew and give birth to a new breed of Alien, the Neomorphs, the android David 8 rescues them. It

4503-413: The planetoid from the first film. When contact with the colony is lost, Ripley is persuaded to accompany a squad of marines to investigate. They discover the colonists have been wiped out after being directed by the company to secure the derelict ship reported by Ripley. There is only one survivor, a girl named Newt . The aliens vastly outnumber and quickly overwhelm the marines, who fight for survival. Only

4582-466: The plot for a fifth Alien film with another writer, but ceased work on learning of the crossover. Cameron stated that the crossover would "kill the validity of the franchise", and that "it was Frankenstein Meets Werewolf " – like " Universal just taking their assets and starting to play them off against each other." Although he liked the final product, he ruled out any future involvement with

4661-481: The power to the town in the process. During a confrontation with human survivors, the Predator loses its plasma pistol. The Predator then fights the Predalien singlehandedly, and the two mortally wound one another just as the US air force drops a tactical nuclear bomb on the town, incinerating both combatants along with the Predalien's warriors and hive, as well as the few remaining humans in the town. The salvaged plasma pistol

4740-436: The prequel project remained dormant until 2009. Jon Spaihts wrote the first screenplay for the project, but Scott then opted for a different direction and hired Damon Lindelof in 2010, to rewrite the script into a story that focused on the creators of the Aliens, rather than the Aliens themselves. The film, titled Prometheus , was released in 2012 to box office success and mostly positive reviews. By 2014, development on

4819-407: The prequel series films Prometheus (2012) and Alien: Covenant (2017). This was followed by Alien: Romulus (2024), which is set between the first two films and was directed by Fede Álvarez . The series has led to numerous novels , comics , video games and an upcoming television series also titled Alien: Earth , developed by Scott for FX on Hulu , with Noah Hawley . It has inspired

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4898-604: The queen's eggs. The Aliens escape, and Ripley 8 (a clone mixed with Alien DNA) and the mercenaries attempt to escape and destroy the Auriga before it reaches Earth. Inspired by the Dark Horse Comics series, the filmmakers of Predator 2 (1990) incorporated an Easter egg in which an Alien skull was seen in a Predator trophy case. Expansions upon this shared universe between the Alien and Predator franchises followed through comics and video games, leading up to

4977-502: The rare Laserdisc box sets. There exists a great number of spin-offs in other media, including a large number of crossovers with the Predator franchise. Alien print media has been published since shortly before the release of the original eponymous film, in 1979. The full library of these literary works include novelizations of the films, original content that expand upon the fictional universe, comics and companion books for both

5056-531: The same year. All six of the short films premiered at the Emerald City Comic Con in Seattle . The 40th anniversary short films are available as a Movies Anywhere -exclusive bonus feature accompanying the digital release of Alien . In 1979, 20th Century Fox considered producing a television series based upon the 1979 film Alien and hoped that ABC would pick it up but its only media coverage

5135-505: The scenes cut from the theatrical version, would later receive more positive reviews, with the film considered a cult classic in some quarters. In 1996, production on the fourth Alien film, Alien Resurrection , began. Ripley was not in the script's first draft, and Weaver was not interested in reprising the role. She joined the project after being offered an $ 11 million salary and more creative control, including director approval. The script, set 200 years after Alien 3 , resurrected

5214-559: The science fiction genre , and in the AFI's 100 Years... 100 Heroes and Villains list, Ripley was ranked eighth among the heroes, and the Alien was fourteenth among the villains. IGN listed Alien as the thirteenth best film franchise of all time in 2006. "Alien Day", April 26, has become the fan celebration day for the Alien franchise. The date derives from LV-426, the "426" converting to "4/26" or "April 26". On Alien Day 2016, Neill Blomkamp released new art for his concept of Alien 5 , and

5293-477: The second prequel was underway, with Scott returning as director. The film's screenplay was initially written by Jack Paglen in 2013, but was subsequently rewritten by Michael Green and Dante Harper, before Scott's collaborator from Gladiator , John Logan , wrote the final version. The film, titled Alien: Covenant , commenced production in February 2016 and was released on May 19, 2017. Alien: Covenant

5372-444: The series. In late 2008, Weaver hinted in an interview with MTV that she and Scott were working on an Alien spin-off film, which would focus on the chronicles of Ellen Ripley rather than on the Aliens, but the continuation of Ripley's story has not materialized. In 2015, Sigourney Weaver expressed her interest in returning to the role of Ripley with Neill Blomkamp 's story (purportedly titled Alien: Awakening ) which would tie into

5451-634: The show's leads. Reports suggested that the TV series would start filming in March 2022, but production was delayed until 2023, due to the COVID-19 pandemic . On April 6, Landgraf stated that the series was in "active preproduction". On July 19, the production of the series began in Thailand with Sydney Chandler , Alex Lawther and Samuel Blenkin being cast as the series' lead roles. In 2014, Sega published

5530-409: The video game Alien: Isolation . In 2019, a seven-episode animated adaptation of the same name was released on February 28. The series, developed by 20th Century Fox, in conjunction with Reverse Engineering Studios and DVgroup, was created using a combination of brand-new scenes animated from scratch, cinematics taken directly from the original game, and digital recreations of first-person scenes from

5609-410: Was a box office disappointment, grossing $ 240.9 million worldwide against a production budget of $ 97 million, while also receiving lukewarm critical reviews. The story of the prequel series centers around the android David 8 , and two crews he accompanies on expeditions to meet the mysterious Engineers. Some 30 years before the events of Alien , scientists Elizabeth Shaw and Charlie Holloway discover

5688-476: Was announced to be in development for FX on Hulu , with Noah Hawley and Scott being involved (the former as showrunner and the latter as producer). It will be set on Earth in the near future, thus marking the first of the franchise to do so without featuring Ellen Ripley. At the 2021 Television Critics Association Press Tour, FX network's John Landgraf said that the series will probably premiere in 2023. A casting sheet for characters Hermit and Wendy shed light on

5767-495: Was announced to be in talks for the lead role from November of that year. Under the working title Alien: Romulus , filming was scheduled to begin on February 6, 2023 at Origo Studios in Budapest, Hungary. In March 2023, Isabela Merced joined Spaeny in an undisclosed role. The official date of filming was set for March 9. It was released in theaters on August 16, 2024. In the mid-1990s, screenwriter Stuart Hazeldine wrote

5846-473: Was found in the June 1980 Fangoria issue #6 and it ended up abandoned as the 1986 sequel Aliens arrived on the scene. In 1992, a now cancelled animated series inspired by the 1986 film Aliens titled Operation: Aliens was being produced along with an LCD game, board game, a Sega Genesis video game by THQ , and action figures. However the brand lived on through Kenner toylines as simply Aliens and in

5925-537: Was nominated for Best Visual Effects. Prometheus was also nominated for Best Visual Effects. Alien was also inducted into the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress for historical preservation as a film which is "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant." The American Film Institute ranked Alien as the sixth most thrilling American movie and seventh-best film in

6004-664: Was the subject of three short stories, with one set in the Mirror Universe . All were written by Keith DeCandido. Novels that contain links to the series. The Gorkon and her crew were introduced in Diplomatic Implausibility (2003). Keith DeCandido DeCandido was born in the Bronx in New York City, the son of Robert L. DeCandido and GraceAnne Andreassi DeCandido. He claims to have been

6083-439: Was undecided with keeping it tied in with the plot set out in Prometheus and Alien: Covenant . In October 2024, Scott confirmed he is developing a new Alien film. In 2012 and 2017 respectively, fourteen short films were produced to tie in with the releases of Prometheus and Alien: Covenant . In July 2018, it was reported that 20th Century Fox had joined forces with Tongal to produce short films, intended to coincide with

6162-477: Was widely praised and granted seals of approval by Ridley Scott , James Cameron , Sigourney Weaver and Walter Hill . In the aftermath of the play's popularity and approval, North Bergen Mayor Nick Sacco's non-profit foundation pledged funds for more performances. The Bishop character has been the subject of literary and philosophical analysis as a high-profile android character conforming to science fiction author Isaac Asimov 's Three Laws of Robotics and as

6241-474: Was willing to take a chance." He had "already set it up" in Diplomatic Implausibility and The Brave and the Bold, Book 2 (2002), so he "took it forward" with two novels. A third novel followed in 2005. In 2008, the series was relaunched as Klingon Empire . The scope of A Burning House was expanded beyond the crew aboard the Gorkon . The series ended with A Burning House . Members of Gorkon crew appear in

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