Ridley Scott is going to turn 89 years old later this year but is still as sharp as ever. He’s got a new movie, The Dog Stars, opening this week. He’ll follow that up with the pirate film Treasure Island, starring Hugh Jackman, and has several other films he could tackle after that. One of which is a return to the world of Alien.

It’s admirable that 20th Century Studios tried to tie together the disparate threads of its Alien franchise with Fede Álvarez’s Alien: Romulus. In 2024, we’re sure someone at the company believed audiences would flock to an Alien sequel that pulled together the most prominent ephemera from the series,