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Like the ever-evolving apex predator at its center, the Alien series owes its survival to its adaptability. The results could be almost aggressively fan-unfriendly: Alien 3 summarily killed off two of the three survivors from the massively successful Aliens, as well as the series’ heroine, Sigourney Weaver’s Ripley; Alien Resurrection brought her back, 200 years later, as a clone whose …
The beauty of the “Alien” franchise is that it has always allowed room for distinctive filmmakers to play with their own aesthetics and themes. Ridley Scott’s taut, philosophical space-thriller “Alien” gave way to the sweaty, militarized machismo of James Cameron’s “Aliens.” David Fincher brought industrial Soviet aesthetics and psychosexual tension from his Madonna music videos to the stylish “Alien 3” …
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Fede Alvarez was 12 in 1990 when he pressed play on a destiny-shaping VHS tape. “The first thing that always came to mind was ‘Alien.’” But at the time, Scott himself was in the midst of making “Alien: Covenant.” A few years later, not long after 20th Century Fox was folded into Disney, Alvarez received a call from the studio …
