When Ridley Scott directed 2012’s Prometheus, returning to the Alien franchise that he began 33 years earlier, the results were rather underwhelming. Scott wanted to explore how these acid-blooded ...

Mercifully it didn’t come to that as Scott decided to start again five years ago with Prometheus, a prequel to the original Alien, set some 20 years before Sigourney Weaver’s Ripley confronted the ...