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Tom Skerritt, Captain Dallas in Ridley Scott's Alien, has died aged 93. We remember the top-billed hero who climbed into the air ducts…
When the crew of the Nostromo—Dallas, Kane, and Lambert—boldly stepped out of their airlock in Ridley Scott’s Alien, little did they know they…
Before shooting a single picture, here is the tale of how Ridley Scott rescued the scifi movie classic Alien. The production firm that…
Dan O’Bannon, the original Alien film screenwriter, collaborated with John Carpenter on a short scifi film called Dark Star that eventually became a…
The BTS team discusses how Ridley Scott’s masterpiece, the Alien movie, succeeds despite breaking a number of accepted screenwriting conventions, the iconic tone…
At one point, filmmaker Neill Blomkamp was being lined up to re-boot the Alien franchise, starting with a more direct follow-on to Aliens…
If you are a fan of the original Alien movie and the big ugly H.R. Giger-created ultimate killing machine (aka the xenomorph or…
Our canny reader Kroft has been combing his way through the very rare 150-page script written by Damon Lindelof for the Alien franchise…
Earth’s alien first contact: so, just how badly will humanity lose its s$£% when it gets its first public message – or visit…
To celebrate Alien’s pending 40th anniversary, here’s another of 20th Century Fox’s new Alien-universe short flicks. Here’s the official synopsis for this next…
As part of the Alien film’s 40th anniversary celebrations, 20th Century Fox has commissioned another short movie in the Alien universe, this one…
To tie in with the 40th anniversary of the 1979 Alien movie (and its various sequels), six filmmakers are expanding the horror-scifi movie…
