![]() To be honest, it was still better than what most thought of it during its release. Matching the legacy of the first two movies was always a challenging task. ![]() Despite multiple pre-production issues and uncertainties, David Fincher made ‘Alien 3’ in 1992. The third one in the series was doomed from the beginning. Sigourney Weaver is brilliant as Ellen Ripley. The second film too manages to stay faithful to all the elements that made the first film a success. Contrary to their expectations, they now have to survive and fight new aliens. She leads highly equipped Marines as they land on the LV-426. She goes through a traumatic personal crisis and decides to lead a mission to the same planet in order to reconnect with the colony. Ellen Ripley, the only survivor of the Nostromo, is up against the skepticism and disbelief of people. The story is set 57 years after the fateful trip to LV-426. The title doesn’t get any points for subtlety though. Following that, James Cameron tried his hand in the franchise with ‘Aliens’. The film became an instant cultural sensation. ![]() ‘Alien’ gets brownie points for balancing the horror genre with sci-fi tropes. Under the impression that they have got away from the creature, they board the ship as everything goes normal. Soon, the crew realizes that they have company in that land and they discover the horrific killing machine, Xenomorph. They discover an old discarded ship that contains eggs of an unknown creature. The crew lands and finds that the distress call was actually a warning. We have Nostromo, a commercial spaceship returning to Earth, when it picks up a distress call from a nearby but unknown planet. Ridley Scott, from a script written by Dan O’Bannon & Ronald Shusett, brought us a sci-fi horror extravaganza set in space. So let’s begin from where the series was actually started – 1979’s ‘Alien’. We have jumbled up narratives and inverted timelines as efforts are made to rejuvenate the franchise. The Alien Throughout The YearsĪs we have said earlier in the piece, Alien series seemed to have taken a cue from Star Wars franchise and it’s for the worse. Now, before we talk about the new ‘Alien’ movie in the franchise, we need to take a look back at the events that transpired in the past movies and try to connect the dots in order to anticipate the plot of the future one. The most recent one, as we have discussed before, is ‘Alien: Covenant’, which continued the prequel series. After the failures of two crossover films, the ‘Alien’ franchise got a new direction with an origin film ‘ Prometheus‘. The franchise became such a sensation that the Xenomorph eventually crossed paths with Predator, another series character that started its journey almost at the same time as the Alien franchise. Sigourney Weaver returned as Ellen Ripley in a film that was dark but was considered bland and ineffective. After a break came ‘Alien: Resurrection’ in 1997. But David Fincher‘s ‘Alien 3’ in 1994 is one of the rare blemishes in his illustrious filmography. The third one got another master director for it. ![]() It was helmed by the equally capable hands of James Cameron and the second one too flew high. The second film in the series came 7 years later in 1986 in the form of ‘Aliens’. But we will discuss them anyway.įirst came Ridley Scott with his groundbreaking ‘Alien’ in 1979. That is, for us fans, it provides a challenge to keep track of everything in the correct order. Now, the timeline of movies of the ‘Alien’ series is somewhat Star Wars-like. Granted ‘Covenant’ was not the success the studio and Scott himself was expecting, it still did well enough to keep the possibility of a third one alive. Recently, talks are rife with an upcoming movie in the franchise that will be a direct sequel to ‘Alien: Covenant’ (2017).
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