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</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">This article is about the Alien film series. For the original 1979 film, see <a href="Alien_(film)" title="Alien (film)">Alien (film)</a>. For other uses, see <a href="Alien_(disambiguation)" class="mw-redirect mw-disambig" title="Alien (disambiguation)">Alien</a>.</div>

<div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">"Alien films" redirects here. For films that feature aliens, see <a href="List_of_films_featuring_extraterrestrials" title="List of films featuring extraterrestrials">List of films featuring extraterrestrials</a>.</div>

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</style><table class="infobox vevent"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above summary" style="font-style: italic; background: lavender;">Alien</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><div class="infobox-caption">Official franchise logo</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Created by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="Dan_O'Bannon" title="Dan O'Bannon">Dan O'Bannon</a> <a href="Ronald_Shusett" title="Ronald Shusett">Ronald Shusett</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Original work</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="Alien_(film)" title="Alien (film)">Alien</a> (1979)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Owner</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="20th_Century_Studios" title="20th Century Studios">20th Century Studios</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Years</th><td class="infobox-data">1979–present</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background: lavender;">Print publications</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Novel(s)</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="List_of_Alien_(franchise)_novels" title="List of Alien (franchise) novels">List of novels</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Comics</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="List_of_Alien_(franchise)_comics" title="List of Alien (franchise) comics">List of comics</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background: lavender;">Films and television</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Film(s)</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">

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<ul><li>Original films:</li>

<li><a href="Alien_(film)" title="Alien (film)">Alien</a> (1979)</li>

<li><a href="Aliens_(film)" title="Aliens (film)">Aliens</a> (1986)</li>

<li><a href="Alien_3" title="Alien 3">Alien 3</a> (1992)</li>

<li><a href="Alien_Resurrection" title="Alien Resurrection">Alien Resurrection</a> (1997)</li>

<li>Crossover films:</li>

<li><a href="Alien_vs._Predator_(film)" title="Alien vs. Predator (film)">Alien vs. Predator</a> (2004)</li>

<li><a href="Aliens_vs._Predator%3A_Requiem" title="Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem">Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem</a> (2007)</li>

<li>Prequel films:</li>

<li><a href="Prometheus_(2012_film)" title="Prometheus (2012 film)">Prometheus</a> (2012)</li>

<li><a href="Alien%3A_Covenant" title="Alien: Covenant">Alien: Covenant</a> (2017)</li>

<li>Spin-off films:</li>

<li><a href="Alien%3A_Romulus" title="Alien: Romulus">Alien: Romulus</a> (2024)</li></ul>

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<ul><li>Prometheus films:</li>

<li>Quiet Eye: Elizabeth Shaw (2012)</li>

<li>Alien 40th anniversary films:</li>

<li>Alien: Containment (2019)</li>

<li>Alien: Specimen (2019)</li>

<li>Alien: Night Shift (2019)</li>

<li>Alien: Ore (2019)</li>

<li>Alien: Harvest (2019)</li>

<li>Alien: Alone (2019)</li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Television series</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="Alien%3A_Earth" title="Alien: Earth">Alien: Earth</a> (2025)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Web series</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="Alien%3A_Isolation_%E2%80%93_The_Digital_Series" title="Alien: Isolation – The Digital Series">Alien: Isolation – The Digital Series</a> (2019)</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background: lavender;">Theatrical presentations</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Play(s)</th><td class="infobox-data">Alien: The Play (2019)</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background: lavender;">Games</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Video game(s)</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="List_of_Alien%2C_Predator_and_Alien_vs._Predator_games" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Alien, Predator and Alien vs. Predator games">List of video games</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background: lavender;">Audio</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Soundtrack(s)</th><td class="infobox-data"><div class="plainlist">

<ul><li><a href="Alien_(soundtrack)" title="Alien (soundtrack)">Alien</a> (1979)</li>

<li><a href="Aliens_(soundtrack)" title="Aliens (soundtrack)">Aliens</a> (1987)</li>

<li><a href="Alien_3_(soundtrack)" title="Alien 3 (soundtrack)">Alien 3</a> (1992)</li>

<li><a href="Alien_Resurrection_(soundtrack)" title="Alien Resurrection (soundtrack)">Alien Resurrection</a> (1997)</li>

<li><a href="Alien_vs._Predator_(soundtrack)" title="Alien vs. Predator (soundtrack)">Alien vs. Predator</a> (2004)</li>

<li><a href="Aliens_vs._Predator%3A_Requiem_(soundtrack)" title="Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem (soundtrack)">Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem</a> (2007)</li>

<li><a href="Prometheus_(soundtrack)" title="Prometheus (soundtrack)">Prometheus</a> (2012)</li>

<li><a href="Alien%3A_Covenant_(soundtrack)" title="Alien: Covenant (soundtrack)">Alien: Covenant</a> (2017)</li>

<li><a href="Alien%3A_Romulus_(soundtrack)" title="Alien: Romulus (soundtrack)">Alien: Romulus</a> (2024)</li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background: lavender;">Miscellaneous</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Character(s)</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="List_of_Alien_(franchise)_characters" title="List of Alien (franchise) characters">List of characters</a></td></tr></tbody></table>

Alien is a <a href="Science_fiction_film" title="Science fiction film">science fiction</a> <a href="Horror_film" title="Horror film">horror</a> and <a href="Action_film" title="Action film">action</a> <a href="Media_franchise" title="Media franchise">media franchise</a> centered on the original film series which depicts <a href="Warrant_officer" title="Warrant officer">warrant officer</a> <a href="Ellen_Ripley" title="Ellen Ripley">Ellen Ripley</a> (<a href="Sigourney_Weaver" title="Sigourney Weaver">Sigourney Weaver</a>) and her battles with an <a href="Extraterrestrial_life" title="Extraterrestrial life">extraterrestrial lifeform</a>, commonly referred to as the <a href="Xenomorph" title="Xenomorph">Alien ("Xenomorph")</a>. The crossover series follows the encounters between the Aliens and another extraterrestrial race, the Predators ("Yautja"), and the exploits of the Weyland-Yutani Corporation pursuing these creatures. The prequel series follows the exploits of the <a href="David_8" title="David 8">David 8</a> android (<a href="Michael_Fassbender" title="Michael Fassbender">Michael Fassbender</a>) and the extraterrestrial race referred to as the "Engineers". The spin-off film follows a group of colonists trying to survive an onslaught of Aliens aboard a Weyland-Yutani research vessel. The television series follows a group of androids attempting to chase down Aliens released from a crashed spaceship on Earth.

Produced and distributed by <a href="20th_Century_Studios" title="20th Century Studios">20th Century Studios</a>, the series began with <a href="Alien_(film)" title="Alien (film)">Alien</a> (1979), directed by <a href="Ridley_Scott" title="Ridley Scott">Ridley Scott</a>, and was followed by three sequels: <a href="Aliens_(film)" title="Aliens (film)">Aliens</a> (1986), directed by <a href="James_Cameron" title="James Cameron">James Cameron</a>; <a href="Alien_3" title="Alien 3">Alien 3</a> (1992), directed by <a href="David_Fincher" title="David Fincher">David Fincher</a>; and <a href="Alien_Resurrection" title="Alien Resurrection">Alien Resurrection</a> (1997), directed by <a href="Jean-Pierre_Jeunet" title="Jean-Pierre Jeunet">Jean-Pierre Jeunet</a>. Scott also directed the prequel series films <a href="Prometheus_(2012_film)" title="Prometheus (2012 film)">Prometheus</a> (2012) and <a href="Alien%3A_Covenant" title="Alien: Covenant">Alien: Covenant</a> (2017). This was followed by <a href="Alien%3A_Romulus" title="Alien: Romulus">Alien: Romulus</a> (2024), which is set between the first two films and was directed by <a href="Fede_%C3%81lvarez" title="Fede Álvarez">Fede Álvarez</a>.

The series has led to numerous <a href="Novels" class="mw-redirect" title="Novels">novels</a>, <a href="Comics" title="Comics">comics</a>, <a href="Video_game" title="Video game">video games</a> and an upcoming television series titled <a href="Alien%3A_Earth" title="Alien: Earth">Alien: Earth</a>, developed by Scott for <a href="FX_on_Hulu" class="mw-redirect" title="FX on Hulu">FX on Hulu</a>, with <a href="Noah_Hawley" title="Noah Hawley">Noah Hawley</a>. It has inspired a number of spin-offs – most notably the <a href="Alien_vs._Predator" title="Alien vs. Predator">Alien vs. Predator</a> series, which combines the continuities of the Alien franchise with the <a href="Predator_(franchise)" title="Predator (franchise)">Predator franchise</a> and consists of two films as well as various series of comics, books, and video games.

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Premise">Premise</h2></div>

The Alien franchise depicts a series of deadly encounters, predominantly spanning the 22nd and 24th centuries, between humanity and the <a href="Xenomorph" title="Xenomorph">Xenomorph</a>; a hostile, <a href="Parasitoid" title="Parasitoid">endoparasitoid</a>, extraterrestrial species.<a href="#cite_note-Aliens-1">[1]</a> Humanity is depicted as a space-faring species with an interstellar dominion; space journeys typically last months, even years, and require the use of <a href="Suspended_animation" title="Suspended animation">cryosleep</a>.<a href="#cite_note-2">[2]</a> Throughout the series, characters are repeatedly manipulated and endangered by the unscrupulous <a href="Megacorporation" title="Megacorporation">megacorporation</a> Weyland-Yutani Corp, which seeks to profit from the Aliens.<a href="#cite_note-Aliens-1">[1]</a><a href="#cite_note-Alien3-3">[3]</a>

The series fictionalizes the origin of the human race. A member of an ancient humanoid species, called the "Engineers", sacrifices himself, allowing his DNA to spark the genesis of mankind. The Engineers' other experiments, designed to exterminate the human race through the means of a deadly mutagen, pave the way for the Aliens to rise and populate through the traumatic implantation of larvae in hosts.<a href="#cite_note-Prometheus-4">[4]</a><a href="#cite_note-Aliens-1">[1]</a> Incidents across several generations are chronicled throughout the franchise.

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Background">Background</h2></div>

Writer <a href="Dan_O'Bannon" title="Dan O'Bannon">Dan O'Bannon</a>, wanting to write a science-fiction action film, collaborated with screenwriter <a href="Ronald_Shusett" title="Ronald Shusett">Ronald Shusett</a> on a script, initially titled Star Beast, but eventually changed to Alien. <a href="Brandywine_Productions" title="Brandywine Productions">Brandywine Productions</a>, a company which had a distribution deal with 20th Century Fox, bought the script. The writers expected it to be a low-budget film, but the success of <a href="Star_Wars_(film)" title="Star Wars (film)">Star Wars</a> inclined Fox to invest millions.<a href="#cite_note-star_beast-5">[5]</a>

In the original script, the ship had an all-male crew, though it noted that all roles could be played by men or women without major changes to the film. The Ripley character was initially to be played by <a href="Tom_Skerritt" title="Tom Skerritt">Tom Skerritt</a>, but when Fox president <a href="Alan_Ladd_Jr." title="Alan Ladd Jr.">Alan Ladd Jr.</a> and the producers at Brandywine heard rumors of Fox working on other titles with strong female leads, it was decided to cast a female as Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) and Skerritt became Captain Dallas. <a href="Ridley_Scott" title="Ridley Scott">Ridley Scott</a> came on as director.

Swiss painter and sculptor <a href="H._R._Giger" title="H. R. Giger">H. R. Giger</a> designed the alien creature's adult form and the derelict ship, while French artist <a href="Jean_Giraud" title="Jean Giraud">Mœbius</a> created the look of the spacesuits and <a href="Ron_Cobb" title="Ron Cobb">Ron Cobb</a> provided most of the industrial design for the sets.<a href="#cite_note-6">[6]</a><a href="#cite_note-McIntee-7">[7]</a><a href="#cite_note-8">[8]</a>

While <a href="Alien_(film)" title="Alien (film)">Alien</a> was a critical and financial success upon its 1979 release, Fox did not consider a sequel until 1983. That year, <a href="James_Cameron" title="James Cameron">James Cameron</a> expressed his interest to producer <a href="David_Giler" title="David Giler">David Giler</a> in continuing the Alien story. After Cameron's <a href="The_Terminator" title="The Terminator">The Terminator</a> became a box office hit in 1984, Cameron and partner <a href="Gale_Anne_Hurd" title="Gale Anne Hurd">Gale Anne Hurd</a> were given approval to direct and produce the sequel to Alien, scheduled for a 1986 release.<a href="#cite_note-schickel-9">[9]</a> Cameron wrote the screenplay for <a href="Aliens_(film)" title="Aliens (film)">Aliens</a> from a story he developed with Giler and Walter Hill.

Following the second film, Weaver was not interested in returning to the series, so Giler and Hill commissioned a sequel without the Ripley character. Fox's president <a href="Joe_Roth" title="Joe Roth">Joe Roth</a> opposed Ripley's removal, and Weaver was offered a $5 million salary and a producer credit to make Alien 3. Giler, Hill and Larry Ferguson wrote the screenplay, based on a story from an earlier script by <a href="Vincent_Ward_(director)" title="Vincent Ward (director)">Vincent Ward</a>, intended to bring closure to the Alien franchise by killing off Ripley, the principal character. Alien 3 faced a mired production, with extensive script difficulties, trouble securing a director, production beginning prior to the completion of a final script, as well as profuse studio interference.<a href="#cite_note-10">[10]</a><a href="#cite_note-11">[11]</a>

While fans and critics initially did not receive Alien 3 well, and director David Fincher disowned it,<a href="#cite_note-12">[12]</a><a href="#cite_note-13">[13]</a> the film was a worldwide success and piqued Fox's interest in continuing the franchise. The Assembly Cut, which restored many of the scenes cut from the theatrical version, would later receive more positive reviews,<a href="#cite_note-14">[14]</a><a href="#cite_note-15">[15]</a><a href="#cite_note-16">[16]</a> with the film considered a <a href="Cult_classic" class="mw-redirect" title="Cult classic">cult classic</a> in some quarters.<a href="#cite_note-17">[17]</a><a href="#cite_note-18">[18]</a>

In 1996, production on the fourth Alien film, <a href="Alien_Resurrection" title="Alien Resurrection">Alien Resurrection</a>, began. Ripley was not in the script's first draft, and Weaver was not interested in reprising the role. She joined the project after being offered an $11 million salary and more creative control, including director approval. The script, set 200 years after Alien 3, resurrected the Ripley character via <a href="Human_cloning" title="Human cloning">human cloning</a>.<a href="#cite_note-19">[19]</a> The film, directed by <a href="Jean-Pierre_Jeunet" title="Jean-Pierre Jeunet">Jean-Pierre Jeunet</a>, experienced an extended production, and screenwriter <a href="Joss_Whedon" title="Joss Whedon">Joss Whedon</a> later said that he thought it had done "everything wrong" with his script.<a href="#cite_note-bullz-eye.com-20">[20]</a> The film was released in 1997 to mixed reviews and modest box office returns. It has since gained fans for its <a href="Camp_(style)" title="Camp (style)">camp</a> style and <a href="Black_comedy" title="Black comedy">dark humor</a>.<a href="#cite_note-21">[21]</a><a href="#cite_note-22">[22]</a><a href="#cite_note-23">[23]</a>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Films">Films</h2></div>

<caption>Alien films

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<th scope="col">Film

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<th scope="col">U.S. release date

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<th scope="col">Screenwriter(s)

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<th colspan="6" style="width:12px; background-color:#ccccff;">Original films

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<th scope="row" style="text-align:left;"><a href="Alien_(film)" title="Alien (film)">Alien</a>

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<td style="text-align:left;">May 25, 1979 (1979-05-25)

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<td><a href="Ridley_Scott" title="Ridley Scott">Ridley Scott</a>

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<td><a href="Dan_O'Bannon" title="Dan O'Bannon">Dan O'Bannon</a>

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<td>Dan O'Bannon & <a href="Ronald_Shusett" title="Ronald Shusett">Ronald Shusett</a>

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<td><a href="Gordon_Carroll" title="Gordon Carroll">Gordon Carroll</a>, <a href="David_Giler" title="David Giler">David Giler</a> & <a href="Walter_Hill" title="Walter Hill">Walter Hill</a>

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<th scope="row" style="text-align:left;"><a href="Aliens_(film)" title="Aliens (film)">Aliens</a>

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<td style="text-align:left;">July 18, 1986 (1986-07-18)

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<td colspan="2"><a href="James_Cameron" title="James Cameron">James Cameron</a>

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<td>James Cameron, David Giler & Walter Hill

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<th scope="row" style="text-align:left;"><a href="Alien_3" title="Alien 3">Alien3</a>

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<td style="text-align:left;">May 22, 1992 (1992-05-22)

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<td><a href="David_Fincher" title="David Fincher">David Fincher</a>

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<td>David Giler, Walter Hill & <a href="Larry_Ferguson_(screenwriter)" title="Larry Ferguson (screenwriter)">Larry Ferguson</a>

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<td><a href="Vincent_Ward_(director)" title="Vincent Ward (director)">Vincent Ward</a>

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<td>Gordon Carroll, David Giler & Walter Hill

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<th scope="row" style="text-align:left;"><a href="Alien_Resurrection" title="Alien Resurrection">Alien Resurrection</a>

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<td style="text-align:left;">November 26, 1997 (1997-11-26)

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<td><a href="Jean-Pierre_Jeunet" title="Jean-Pierre Jeunet">Jean-Pierre Jeunet</a>

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<td colspan="2"><a href="Joss_Whedon" title="Joss Whedon">Joss Whedon</a>

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<td>Gordon Carroll, David Giler, Walter Hill & Bill Badalato

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<th colspan="6" style="width:12px; background-color:#ccccff;">Crossover films

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<th scope="row" style="text-align:left;"><a href="Alien_vs._Predator_(film)" title="Alien vs. Predator (film)">Alien vs. Predator</a>

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<td style="text-align:left;">August 13, 2004 (2004-08-13)

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<td colspan="2"><a href="Paul_W._S._Anderson" title="Paul W. S. Anderson">Paul W. S. Anderson</a>

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<td>Paul W. S. Anderson, Dan O'Bannon & Ronald Shusett

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<td><a href="John_Davis_(producer)" title="John Davis (producer)">John Davis</a>, Gordon Carroll, David Giler & Walter Hill

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<th scope="row" style="text-align:left;"><a href="Aliens_vs._Predator%3A_Requiem" title="Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem">Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem</a>

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<td style="text-align:left;">December 25, 2007 (2007-12-25)

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<td><a href="Greg_and_Colin_Strause" title="Greg and Colin Strause">Greg & Colin Strause</a>

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<td colspan="2"><a href="Shane_Salerno" title="Shane Salerno">Shane Salerno</a>

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<td>John Davis, David Giler & Walter Hill

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<th colspan="6" style="width:12px; background-color:#ccccff;">Prequel films

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<th scope="row" style="text-align:left;"><a href="Prometheus_(2012_film)" title="Prometheus (2012 film)">Prometheus</a>

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<td style="text-align:left;">June 8, 2012 (2012-06-08)

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<td rowspan="2">Ridley Scott

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<td colspan="2"><a href="Jon_Spaihts" title="Jon Spaihts">Jon Spaihts</a> & <a href="Damon_Lindelof" title="Damon Lindelof">Damon Lindelof</a>

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<td>David Giler, Walter Hill & Ridley Scott

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<th scope="row" style="text-align:left;"><a href="Alien%3A_Covenant" title="Alien: Covenant">Alien: Covenant</a>

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<td style="text-align:left;">May 19, 2017 (2017-05-19)

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<td><a href="John_Logan_(writer)" title="John Logan (writer)">John Logan</a> & Dante Harper

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<td>Jack Paglen & <a href="Michael_Green_(writer)" title="Michael Green (writer)">Michael Green</a>

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<td>David Giler, Walter Hill, Ridley Scott, <a href="Mark_Huffam" title="Mark Huffam">Mark Huffam</a> & <a href="Michael_Schaefer_(producer)" title="Michael Schaefer (producer)">Michael Schaefer</a>

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<th colspan="6" style="width:12px; background-color:#ccccff;">Spin-off films

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<th scope="row" style="text-align:left;"><a href="Alien%3A_Romulus" title="Alien: Romulus">Alien: Romulus</a>

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<td style="text-align:left;">August 16, 2024 (2024-08-16)

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<td><a href="Fede_%C3%81lvarez" title="Fede Álvarez">Fede Álvarez</a>

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<td colspan="2">Fede Álvarez & <a href="Rodo_Sayagues" title="Rodo Sayagues">Rodo Sayagues</a>

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<td>Ridley Scott, Michael Pruss & Walter Hill

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<th scope="colgroup" colspan="4" style="">Alien story chronology

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<td scope="rowgroup" colspan="4"><div class="plainlist"><ul style="text-align:center;"><li><a href="Alien_vs._Predator_(film)" title="Alien vs. Predator (film)">Alien vs. Predator</a> (2004)</li><li><a href="Aliens_vs._Predator%3A_Requiem" title="Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem">Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem</a> (2007)</li><li><a href="TED_2023" title="TED 2023">TED 2023</a> (2012)</li><li>Happy Birthday, David (2012)</li><li>Quiet Eye, Elizabeth Shaw (2012)</li><li>Project Prometheus: Mission (2012)</li><li>Weyland Industries Testimonial (2012)</li><li>Prometheus Transmission (2012)</li><li><a href="Prometheus_(2012_film)" title="Prometheus (2012 film)">Prometheus</a> (2012)</li><li>Alien: Covenant — Meet Walter (2017)</li><li>Alien: Covenant — Prologue: The Crossing (2017)</li><li>Alien: Covenant — Origins (2017)</li><li>Alien: Covenant — Phobos (2017)</li><li>Alien: Covenant — Prologue: Last Supper (2017)</li><li>Alien: Covenant — Crew Messages (2017)</li><li>Alien: Covenant — She Won't Go Quietly (2017)</li><li><a href="Alien%3A_Covenant" title="Alien: Covenant">Alien: Covenant</a> (2017)</li><li>Alien: Covenant — Advent (2017)</li><li>Alien: Covenant — David's Lab: Last Signs of Life (2019)</li><li><a href="Alien%3A_Earth" title="Alien: Earth">Alien: Earth</a> (2025)</li><li><a href="Alien_(film)" title="Alien (film)">Alien</a> (1979)</li><li><a href="Alien%3A_Isolation" title="Alien: Isolation">Alien: Isolation</a> (2014)</li><li><a href="Alien%3A_Romulus" title="Alien: Romulus">Alien: Romulus</a> (2024)</li><li><a href="Alien%3A_Out_of_the_Shadows" title="Alien: Out of the Shadows">Alien: Out of the Shadows</a> (2014)</li><li><a href="Aliens_(film)" title="Aliens (film)">Aliens</a> (1986)</li><li><a href="Aliens%3A_Colonial_Marines" title="Aliens: Colonial Marines">Aliens: Colonial Marines</a> (2013)</li><li><a href="Alien_3" title="Alien 3">Alien3</a> (1992)</li><li><a href="Aliens%3A_Dark_Descent" title="Aliens: Dark Descent">Aliens: Dark Descent</a> (2023)</li><li><a href="Aliens%3A_Fireteam_Elite" title="Aliens: Fireteam Elite">Aliens: Fireteam Elite</a> (2021)</li><li><a href="Alien_Resurrection" title="Alien Resurrection">Alien Resurrection</a> (1997)</li><li><a href="Alien%3A_Uncivil_War" class="mw-redirect" title="Alien: Uncivil War">Alien: Uncivil War</a> (2024)</li></ul></div>

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Original_series">Original series</h3></div>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Alien_(1979)">Alien (1979)</h4></div>

<div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="Alien_(film)" title="Alien (film)">Alien (film)</a></div>

On its way back to Earth, the commercial towing vehicle Nostromo is diverted to a desolate <a href="Minor_planet" title="Minor planet">planetoid</a> by a cryptic signal from a derelict alien spacecraft. Inside the alien ship, the crew discovers thousands of egg-like objects. A creature, released from one of the eggs, attaches itself to a crewman's face, rendering him unconscious. The others break quarantine to return him to the Nostromo. The parasite dies and the crewman wakes up, seemingly unaffected. Soon afterwards, an alien organism bursts from his chest and grows rapidly into a large lethal creature, which the surviving crew attempt to kill. The Nostromo is destroyed in an unsuccessful attempt to kill the creature, leaving <a href="Ellen_Ripley" title="Ellen Ripley">Ellen Ripley</a> as the only survivor in the ship's lifeboat.

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Aliens_(1986)">Aliens (1986)</h4></div>

<div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="Aliens_(film)" title="Aliens (film)">Aliens (film)</a></div>

After 57 years in <a href="Stasis_(fiction)" class="mw-redirect" title="Stasis (fiction)">hypersleep</a>, Ripley awakens aboard a medical space station orbiting Earth. She recounts the events of the Nostromo but is disbelieved by her superiors in the Weyland Yutani corporation, which has now begun to <a href="Terraforming" title="Terraforming">terraform</a> and colonise LV-426, the planetoid from the first film. When contact with the colony is lost, Ripley is persuaded to accompany a squad of marines to investigate. They discover the colonists have been wiped out after being directed by the company to secure the derelict ship reported by Ripley. There is only one survivor, a girl named <a href="Newt_(Rebecca_Jorden)" class="mw-redirect" title="Newt (Rebecca Jorden)">Newt</a>. The aliens vastly outnumber and quickly overwhelm the marines, who fight for survival. Only a handful, including Ripley and Newt, escape.

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Alien_3_(1992)">Alien 3 (1992)</h4></div>

<div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="Alien_3" title="Alien 3">Alien 3</a></div>

Immediately following the events of Aliens, the military ship USS Sulaco, carrying the survivors, catches fire. The occupants are ejected in an escape pod, which crash-lands on the refinery/prison planet Fiorina "Fury" 161. All on board except Ripley are killed. An alien facehugger is also aboard, and impregnates an animal with an alien, which soon begins killing inmates and wardens. Ripley discovers an alien queen is growing inside her, and is determined to kill both herself and the creature before Weyland Yutani can exploit them.

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Alien_Resurrection_(1997)">Alien Resurrection (1997)</h4></div>

<div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="Alien_Resurrection" title="Alien Resurrection">Alien Resurrection</a></div>

Two hundred years after the events of Alien 3, several clones of Ripley, including the Alien queen she was carrying, are grown by the military aboard the USM Auriga. The military intends to exploit the Aliens, and uses humans kidnapped and delivered to them by a group of mercenaries as hosts for the queen's eggs. The Aliens escape, and Ripley 8 (a clone mixed with Alien DNA) and the mercenaries attempt to escape and destroy the Auriga before it reaches Earth.

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Crossover_series">Crossover series</h3></div>

<div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="Alien_vs._Predator" title="Alien vs. Predator">Alien vs. Predator</a></div>

Inspired by the <a href="Dark_Horse_Comics" title="Dark Horse Comics">Dark Horse Comics</a> series, the filmmakers of <a href="Predator_2" title="Predator 2">Predator 2</a> (1990) incorporated an <a href="Easter_egg_(media)" title="Easter egg (media)">Easter egg</a> in which an Alien skull was seen in a Predator trophy case. Expansions upon this <a href="Shared_fictional_universe" class="mw-redirect" title="Shared fictional universe">shared universe</a> between the Alien and <a href="Predator_(franchise)" title="Predator (franchise)">Predator</a> franchises followed through comics and video games, leading up to the launch of a film franchise with the release of <a href="Alien_vs._Predator_(film)" title="Alien vs. Predator (film)">Alien vs. Predator</a> in 2004, followed by <a href="Aliens_vs._Predator%3A_Requiem" title="Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem">Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem</a> in 2007. The franchise has spawned various comics, novels, video games, and other merchandise based upon or inspired by the films. A third film has been variously rumored since the production of Requiem.<a href="#cite_note-Holtreman-24">[24]</a><a href="#cite_note-Fox_Brewing_Alien_vs._Predator_3?-25">[25]</a><a href="#cite_note-slashfilm.com-26">[26]</a> In mid-2018, <a href="Shane_Black" title="Shane Black">Shane Black</a>, the director of <a href="The_Predator_(film)" title="The Predator (film)">The Predator</a>, expressed his belief that a third Alien vs. Predator could still happen, indicating the studio's interest in both franchises.<a href="#cite_note-avp-27">[27]</a>

In August 2024, Fede Álvarez, the director of <a href="Alien%3A_Romulus" title="Alien: Romulus">Alien: Romulus</a>, also said he was open to directing a third <a href="Alien_vs._Predator" title="Alien vs. Predator">Alien vs. Predator</a> film, proposing to Melanie Brooks and Anthony D'Alessandro of <a href="Deadline_Hollywood" title="Deadline Hollywood">Deadline Hollywood</a> that he would enjoy directing it along with <a href="Dan_Trachtenberg" title="Dan Trachtenberg">Dan Trachtenberg</a>, the director of the <a href="Predator_(franchise)" title="Predator (franchise)">Predator</a> films <a href="Prey_(2022_film)" title="Prey (2022 film)">Prey</a> (2022) and <a href="Predator%3A_Badlands" title="Predator: Badlands">Predator: Badlands</a> (2025): "Maybe it's something I have to co-direct with my buddy Dan. Maybe we should do like <a href="Quentin_Tarantino" title="Quentin Tarantino">[Quentin] Tarantino</a> and <a href="Robert_Rodriguez" title="Robert Rodriguez">Robert Rodriguez</a> did with <a href="From_Dusk_till_Dawn" title="From Dusk till Dawn">[From] Dusk till Dawn</a>. I'll direct a half, and he'll direct another half."<a href="#cite_note-Sequel_Deadline-28">[28]</a> In October of the same year, Steve Abell (President of Fox Studios) stated that the studio has plans to eventually develop an Alien and Predator crossover film.<a href="#cite_note-29">[29]</a> The Weyland-Yutani Corporation featured in the Alien franchise along with their particular android model featured in Alien: Romulus appears in the upcoming <a href="Predator%3A_Badlands" title="Predator: Badlands">Predator: Badlands</a> film as a stepping stone towards a third Alien vs. Predator film.<a href="#cite_note-30">[30]</a>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Alien_vs._Predator_(2004)">Alien vs. Predator (2004)</h4></div>

<div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="Alien_vs._Predator_(film)" title="Alien vs. Predator (film)">Alien vs. Predator (film)</a></div>

In 2004, a Predator mothership arrives in <a href="Earth" title="Earth">Earth</a> orbit to draw humans to an ancient Predator training ground on <a href="Bouvet_Island" title="Bouvet Island">Bouvetøya</a>, an island about one thousand miles north of <a href="Antarctica" title="Antarctica">Antarctica</a>. A buried <a href="Pyramid" title="Pyramid">pyramid</a> giving off a "heat bloom" attracts a group of explorers led by billionaire and self-taught engineer Charles Bishop Weyland (<a href="Lance_Henriksen" title="Lance Henriksen">Lance Henriksen</a>), the original founder and CEO of Weyland Industries, who unknowingly activates an Alien egg production line as a hibernating Alien queen is awakened within the pyramid. Three Predators descend to the planet and enter the structure, killing all humans in their way with the intention of hunting the newly formed Aliens, while the scattered explorers are captured alive by Aliens and implanted with embryos. Two Predators die in the ensuing battle with an Alien, while the third allies itself with the lone surviving human, Alexa "Lex" Woods (<a href="Sanaa_Lathan" title="Sanaa Lathan">Sanaa Lathan</a>), while making their way out of the pyramid as it is destroyed by the Predator's wrist bomb and eventually does battle with the escaped Alien Queen on the surface. The Queen is defeated by being dragged down by a water tower into the dark depths of the frozen sea, but not before she fatally wounds the last Predator. The orbiting Predator mothership uncloaks and the crew retrieves the fallen Predator. A Predator elder gives Lex a spear as a sign of respect, and then departs. Once in orbit it is revealed that an Alien <a href="Alien_(creature_in_Alien_franchise)" class="mw-redirect" title="Alien (creature in Alien franchise)">Chestburster</a> was present within the corpse, thus a Predalien hybrid is born.

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Aliens_vs._Predator:_Requiem_(2007)">Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem (2007)</h4></div>

<div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="Aliens_vs._Predator%3A_Requiem" title="Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem">Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem</a></div>

Set immediately after the events of the previous film, the <a href="Alien_(creature_in_Alien_franchise)" class="mw-redirect" title="Alien (creature in Alien franchise)">Predalien</a> hybrid aboard the Predator scout ship, having just separated from the mothership shown in the previous film, has grown to full adult size and sets about killing the Predators aboard the ship, causing it to crash in the small town of <a href="Gunnison%2C_Colorado" title="Gunnison, Colorado">Gunnison, Colorado</a>. The last surviving Predator activates a distress beacon containing a video recording of the Predalien, which is received by a <a href="Veteran" title="Veteran">veteran</a> Predator on the Predator homeworld, who sets off towards Earth to "clean up" the infestation. When it arrives, the Predator tracks the Aliens into a section of the sewer below the town. He removes evidence of their presence as he moves along using a corrosive blue liquid and uses a laser net to try to contain the creatures, but the Aliens still manage to escape into the town above. The Predator fashions a plasma pistol from its remaining plasma caster and hunts Aliens all across town, accidentally cutting the power to the town in the process. During a confrontation with human survivors, the Predator loses its plasma pistol. The Predator then fights the Predalien singlehandedly, and the two mortally wound one another just as the US air force drops a tactical nuclear bomb on the town, incinerating both combatants along with the Predalien's warriors and hive, as well as the few remaining humans in the town. The salvaged plasma pistol is then taken to Ms. Cullen Yutani of the Yutani Corporation, foreshadowing an advancement in technology leading to the future events of the Alien films.

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Prequel_series">Prequel series</h3></div>

Development of a prequel story began in the early 2000s when both Ridley Scott and James Cameron started to develop ideas for a story that would explore the origins of the Alien. In 2002, the development of <a href="Alien_vs._Predator_(film)" title="Alien vs. Predator (film)">Alien vs. Predator</a> had taken precedence and the prequel project remained dormant until 2009. <a href="Jon_Spaihts" title="Jon Spaihts">Jon Spaihts</a> wrote the first screenplay for the project, but Scott then opted for a different direction and hired <a href="Damon_Lindelof" title="Damon Lindelof">Damon Lindelof</a> in 2010, to rewrite the script into a story that focused on the creators of the Aliens, rather than the Aliens themselves. The film, titled <a href="Prometheus_(2012_film)" title="Prometheus (2012 film)">Prometheus</a>, was released in 2012 to box office success and mostly positive reviews.<a href="#cite_note-PrometheusRT-31">[31]</a><a href="#cite_note-32">[32]</a>

By 2014, development on the second prequel was underway, with Scott returning as director.<a href="#cite_note-33">[33]</a> The film's screenplay was initially written by Jack Paglen in 2013, but was subsequently rewritten by <a href="Michael_Green_(writer)" title="Michael Green (writer)">Michael Green</a> and Dante Harper, before Scott's collaborator from <a href="Gladiator_(2000_film)" title="Gladiator (2000 film)">Gladiator</a>, <a href="John_Logan_(writer)" title="John Logan (writer)">John Logan</a>, wrote the final version.<a href="#cite_note-34">[34]</a><a href="#cite_note-35">[35]</a> The film, titled <a href="Alien%3A_Covenant" title="Alien: Covenant">Alien: Covenant</a>, commenced production in February 2016 and was released on May 19, 2017.<a href="#cite_note-36">[36]</a><a href="#cite_note-:2-37">[37]</a> Alien: Covenant was a box office disappointment, grossing $240.9 million worldwide against a production budget of $97-111 million, while also receiving lukewarm critical reviews.<a href="#cite_note-38">[38]</a><a href="#cite_note-CovenantRT-39">[39]</a> The story of the prequel series centers around the android <a href="David_8" title="David 8">David 8</a>, and two crews he accompanies on expeditions to meet the mysterious Engineers.

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Prometheus_(2012)">Prometheus (2012)</h4></div>

<div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="Prometheus_(2012_film)" title="Prometheus (2012 film)">Prometheus (2012 film)</a></div>

Some 30 years before the events of Alien, scientists Elizabeth Shaw and Charlie Holloway discover a star map among the remnants of several ancient Earth cultures. Accompanied by David 8 and hoping to discover the <a href="Origins_of_humanity" class="mw-redirect" title="Origins of humanity">origins of humanity</a>, they journey aboard the spaceship USCSS Prometheus and arrive on the distant planet LV-223 in the <a href="Zeta_Reticuli" title="Zeta Reticuli">Zeta2 Reticuli</a> system, the same region of space in which the <a href="Minor_planet" title="Minor planet">planetoid</a> LV-426 from <a href="Alien_(film)" title="Alien (film)">Alien</a> is found. There they discover the ancient remains of an advanced civilization, called the Engineers (apparently the same race as the dead pilot from the derelict ship in Alien), who were developing biological weapons in the form of a pathogenic mutagen which could have driven the human race extinct. The horrors they encounter result in the loss of the crew except for David and Shaw.

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Alien:_Covenant_(2017)">Alien: Covenant (2017)</h4></div>

<div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="Alien%3A_Covenant" title="Alien: Covenant">Alien: Covenant</a></div>

Eleven years after the events of Prometheus, the colony ship USCSS Covenant, carrying thousands of colonists and hundreds of human embryos in <a href="Cryo-stasis" class="mw-redirect" title="Cryo-stasis">cryo-stasis</a>, makes its way towards the planet Origae-6. The crew is awakened by a <a href="Neutrino" title="Neutrino">neutrino</a> blast and intercepts a transmission sent from Shaw, which they decide to trace to an apparently habitable Engineer home world (referred to as Planet 4), devoid of all non-floral life. When several crew members are infected by the same <a href="Mutagen" title="Mutagen">mutagen</a> encountered by the Prometheus crew and give birth to a new breed of Alien, the Neomorphs, the android David 8 rescues them. It is revealed that he brought Shaw to the planet, where he killed all non-floral life and began experimenting on Shaw's corpse to engineer his own breeds of Aliens. His motive to replace human life with Aliens is made apparent, and with the birth of yet another new breed of Alien, a terraforming expert named Daniels and the remaining crew are forced to flee from the world. After disposing of the Aliens chasing them, the crew members return to the Covenant and are put back into cryosleep by someone they believe to be their shipboard synthetic, Walter. Only when Daniels is put in her cryopod does she realize that Walter has been replaced by the identical David. With the crew, colonists, and embryos at his mercy, David contacts Weyland-Yutani back on Earth, stating that while the majority of the crew was killed in the neutrino blast, they would continue to Origae-6.<a href="#cite_note-AlienCovenant-40">[40]</a>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Spin-off_films">Spin-off films</h3></div>

In March 2022, <a href="The_Hollywood_Reporter" title="The Hollywood Reporter">The Hollywood Reporter</a> reported that <a href="Hulu" title="Hulu">Hulu</a> would release a new Alien film, initially reported as a standalone entry in the franchise, to be directed by <a href="Fede_%C3%81lvarez" title="Fede Álvarez">Fede Álvarez</a> and produced by <a href="Ridley_Scott" title="Ridley Scott">Ridley Scott</a>. Álvarez had pitched the idea to Scott years prior.<a href="#cite_note-41">[41]</a> It was later clarified that the film was set between Alien and Aliens.<a href="#cite_note-42">[42]</a> <a href="Cailee_Spaeny" title="Cailee Spaeny">Cailee Spaeny</a> was announced to be in talks for the lead role from November of that year.<a href="#cite_note-43">[43]</a> Under the working title <a href="Alien%3A_Romulus" title="Alien: Romulus">Alien: Romulus</a>, filming was scheduled to begin on February 6, 2023 at Origo Studios in Budapest, Hungary.<a href="#cite_note-44">[44]</a> In March 2023, <a href="Isabela_Merced" title="Isabela Merced">Isabela Merced</a> joined Spaeny in an undisclosed role.<a href="#cite_note-45">[45]</a> The official date of filming was set for March 9.<a href="#cite_note-46">[46]</a> It was released in theaters on August 16, 2024.<a href="#cite_note-47">[47]</a>

In October 2024, 20th Century Studios president Steve Asbell said, "We're working on a sequel idea now. We haven't quite closed our deal with Fede [Álvarez], but we are going to, and he has an idea that we're working on."<a href="#cite_note-Sequel_THR2-48">[48]</a> By February 2025, Álvarez confirmed that he is currently writing the script for a sequel stating that it would be the next project on which he begins production, and principal photography tentatively scheduled for later that year.<a href="#cite_note-Sequel_Collier-49">[49]</a> In June, Álvarez stated that pre-production for the sequel was underway, with filming slated to begin in October.<a href="#cite_note-50">[50]</a>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Alien:_Romulus_(2024)">Alien: Romulus (2024)</h4></div>

<div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="Alien%3A_Romulus" title="Alien: Romulus">Alien: Romulus</a></div>

Six downtrodden young space colonists encounter hostile Alien creatures while scavenging a derelict Weyland-Yutani space station in which they plan to navigate to another planet.

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Future">Future</h3></div>

In the mid-1990s, screenwriter <a href="Stuart_Hazeldine" title="Stuart Hazeldine">Stuart Hazeldine</a> wrote a <a href="Treatment_(film)" class="mw-redirect" title="Treatment (film)">treatment</a>, Alien: Earthbound. Fox executives were impressed by the script, having read it after Alien Resurrection had entered post-production.<a href="#cite_note-51">[51]</a> According to Sigourney Weaver, Joss Whedon had written an Earth-set script for Alien 5, but Weaver was not interested and wanted it to be set on the original planetoid. She has remained open to a role on the condition that she likes the story.<a href="#cite_note-52">[52]</a> Before 20th Century Fox <a href="Greenlight" title="Greenlight">greenlit</a> Alien vs. Predator, James Cameron had been collaborating on the plot for a fifth Alien film with another writer, but ceased work on learning of the crossover. Cameron stated that the crossover would "kill the validity of the franchise", and that "it was <a href="Frankenstein_Meets_the_Wolf_Man" title="Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man">Frankenstein Meets Werewolf</a>" – like "<a href="Universal_Pictures" title="Universal Pictures">Universal</a> just taking their assets and starting to play them off against each other." Although he liked the final product, he ruled out any future involvement with the series.<a href="#cite_note-53">[53]</a> In late 2008, Weaver hinted in an interview with MTV that she and Scott were working on an Alien spin-off film, which would focus on the chronicles of Ellen Ripley rather than on the Aliens, but the continuation of Ripley's story has not materialized.<a href="#cite_note-54">[54]</a>

In 2015, Sigourney Weaver expressed her interest in returning to the role of Ripley with <a href="Neill_Blomkamp" title="Neill Blomkamp">Neill Blomkamp</a>'s story (purportedly titled Alien: Awakening) which would tie into the first two Alien films by taking place after Aliens and foregoing involvement with the other two sequels.<a href="#cite_note-55">[55]</a><a href="#cite_note-56">[56]</a> This was canceled in favor of Scott's own untitled third prequel (also purportedly titled Alien: Awakening).<a href="#cite_note-57">[57]</a><a href="#cite_note-58">[58]</a> In February 2019, James Cameron stated that he was working on reviving Blomkamp's project.<a href="#cite_note-59">[59]</a> In June 2020, Brandywine Productions revealed that a screenplay for a new installment in the original series called Alien V, centered around Ripley, had been written by Walter Hill and David Giler.<a href="#cite_note-60">[60]</a> In an interview with <a href="The_Hollywood_Reporter" title="The Hollywood Reporter">The Hollywood Reporter</a> published in September 2022, Hill confirmed that the proposed alternative sequel involving Weaver would not be moving forward.<a href="#cite_note-61">[61]</a> Blomkamp reused some of his proposed concepts for Alien V in his short film <a href="Rakka_(film)" title="Rakka (film)">Rakka</a>, also starring Sigourney Weaver.<a href="#cite_note-62">[62]</a>

After the <a href="Acquisition_of_21st_Century_Fox_by_Disney" title="Acquisition of 21st Century Fox by Disney">acquisition of 21st Century Fox by The Walt Disney Company</a>, it was officially confirmed at the 2019 <a href="CinemaCon" class="mw-redirect" title="CinemaCon">CinemaCon</a> that future Alien films are in development.<a href="#cite_note-63">[63]</a> In May 2019, <a href="Variety_(magazine)" title="Variety (magazine)">Variety</a> reported that the third prequel film was "in the script phase", with Ridley Scott attached to serve once again as director.<a href="#cite_note-64">[64]</a><a href="#cite_note-65">[65]</a> In September 2020, Scott confirmed that work on the next installment is ongoing, but whether the plot would be connected to Prometheus and Alien: Covenant was undecided.<a href="#cite_note-Alien_Forbes-66">[66]</a> In October 2024, Scott confirmed he is developing a new Alien film.<a href="#cite_note-67">[67]</a> On June 1st, 2025, Screenrant published an interview with Ridley Scott where he announced his departure from the Alien franchise, saying "where it's going now, I think I've done enough, and I just hope it goes further", while expressing his critiques of the Alien sequels.<a href="#cite_note-68">[68]</a>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Short_films">Short films</h2></div>

<caption>Alien short films

</caption>

<th scope="col">Film

</th>

<th scope="col">U.S. release date

</th>

<th scope="col">Director(s)

</th>

<th scope="col">Screenwriter(s)

</th>

<th scope="col">Producer(s)

</th></tr>

<tr>

</th>

<td style="text-align:center">February 28, 2012 (2012-02-28)<a href="#cite_note-69">[69]</a>

</td>

<td><a href="Luke_Scott_(director)" title="Luke Scott (director)">Luke Scott</a><a href="#cite_note-RSA-70">[70]</a>

</td>

<td><a href="Damon_Lindelof" title="Damon Lindelof">Damon Lindelof</a><a href="#cite_note-71">[71]</a>

</td>

<td rowspan="3">RSA Films<a href="#cite_note-RSA-70">[70]</a><a href="#cite_note-Hardstaff-72">[72]</a><a href="#cite_note-Hardstaff2-73">[73]</a>

</td></tr>

<tr>

<th scope="row" style="text-align:left">Happy Birthday, David

</th>

<td style="text-align:center">April 17, 2012 (2012-04-17)<a href="#cite_note-74">[74]</a>

</td>

<td rowspan="2">Johnny Hardstaff<a href="#cite_note-Hardstaff-72">[72]</a><a href="#cite_note-Hardstaff2-73">[73]</a>

</td>

<td>Damon Lindelof & Johnny Hardstaff<a href="#cite_note-Hardstaff-72">[72]</a>

</td></tr>

<tr>

<th scope="row" style="text-align:left">Quiet Eye: Elizabeth Shaw

</th>

</td>

<td>Damon Lindelof<a href="#cite_note-Hardstaff2-73">[73]</a>

</td></tr>

<tr>

<th scope="row" style="text-align:left">Project Prometheus: Mission

</th>

</td>

<td>Chris Eyerman & Evan DeHaven<a href="#cite_note-Ignition-76">[76]</a>

</td>

<td>Ashley Crandall, James Cobo, & Nina Kauffman<a href="#cite_note-Ignition-76">[76]</a>

</td>

<td>Ignition Interactive<a href="#cite_note-Ignition-76">[76]</a>

</td></tr>

<tr>

<th scope="row" style="text-align:left">Weyland Industries Testimonial

</th>

</td>

<td>N/A

</td>

<td>N/A

</td>

<td><a href="20th_Century_Studios" title="20th Century Studios">20th Century Fox</a>

</td></tr>

<tr>

<th scope="row" style="text-align:left">Prometheus Transmission

</th>

<td style="text-align:center">October 11, 2012 (2012-10-11)<a href="#cite_note-78">[78]</a>

</td>

<td>Johnny Hardstaff<a href="#cite_note-Hardstaff3-79">[79]</a>

</td>

<td>Michael Ellenberg & Johnny Hardstaff<a href="#cite_note-Hardstaff3-79">[79]</a>

</td>

<td rowspan="3">RSA Films<a href="#cite_note-Hardstaff3-79">[79]</a><a href="#cite_note-RSA2-80">[80]</a><a href="#cite_note-RSA3-81">[81]</a>

</td></tr>

<tr>

<th scope="row" style="text-align:left">Alien: Covenant — Prologue: Last Supper

</th>

<td style="text-align:center">February 22, 2017 (2017-02-22)<a href="#cite_note-82">[82]</a>

</td>

<td rowspan="2">Luke Scott<a href="#cite_note-RSA2-80">[80]</a><a href="#cite_note-RSA3-81">[81]</a>

</td>

<td>Will Melton<a href="#cite_note-83">[83]</a>

</td></tr>

<tr>

<th scope="row" style="text-align:left">Alien: Covenant — Meet Walter

</th>

<td style="text-align:center">March 10, 2017 (2017-03-10)<a href="#cite_note-84">[84]</a>

</td>

<td>Will Melton & Chris Eyerman<a href="#cite_note-85">[85]</a><a href="#cite_note-86">[86]</a>

</td></tr>

<tr>

<th scope="row" style="text-align:left">Alien: Covenant — Crew Messages

</th>

<td style="text-align:center">April 17–20, 2017<a href="#cite_note-87">[87]</a>

</td>

<td>N/A

</td>

<td>N/A

</td>

<td rowspan="2">20th Century Fox

</td></tr>

<tr>

<th scope="row" style="text-align:left">Alien: Covenant — Prologue: The Crossing

</th>

<td style="text-align:center">April 26, 2017 (2017-04-26)<a href="#cite_note-88">[88]</a>

</td>

<td><a href="Ridley_Scott" title="Ridley Scott">Ridley Scott</a><a href="#cite_note-89">[89]</a>

</td>

<td><a href="John_Logan_(writer)" title="John Logan (writer)">John Logan</a> & Dante Harper

</td></tr>

<tr>

<th scope="row" style="text-align:left">Alien: Covenant — She Won't Go Quietly

</th>

</td>

<td>Luke Scott<a href="#cite_note-geektyrant-91">[91]</a>

</td>

<td>

</td>

<td>RSA Films<a href="#cite_note-geektyrant-91">[91]</a>

</td></tr>

<tr>

<th scope="row" style="text-align:left">Alien: Covenant — <a href="Rick_and_Morty_(franchise)" title="Rick and Morty (franchise)">Rick and Morty</a>

</th>

</td>

<td colspan="2"><a href="Justin_Roiland" title="Justin Roiland">Justin Roiland</a><a href="#cite_note-93">[93]</a>

</td>

<td rowspan="3">20th Century Fox

</td></tr>

<tr>

<th scope="row" style="text-align:left">Alien: Covenant — Phobos

</th>

</td>

</td>

<td>John Logan & Toby Dye<a href="#cite_note-Dye-95">[95]</a>

</td></tr>

<tr>

<th scope="row" style="text-align:left">Alien: Covenant — Advent

</th>

<td style="text-align:center">August 15, 2017 (2017-08-15)<a href="#cite_note-Advent-96">[96]</a>

</td>

<td>Matthew Thorne<a href="#cite_note-Advent-96">[96]</a>

</td>

<td>Will Melton<a href="#cite_note-97">[97]</a>

</td></tr>

<tr>

<th scope="row" style="text-align:left">Alien: Containment

</th>

<td style="text-align:center">March 29, 2019 (2019-03-29)<a href="#cite_note-shorts-98">[98]</a>

</td>

<td colspan="2">Chris Reading<a href="#cite_note-shorts-98">[98]</a>

</td>

<td rowspan="6"><a href="Tongal" title="Tongal">Tongal Studios</a><a href="#cite_note-shorts-98">[98]</a>

</td></tr>

<tr>

<th scope="row" style="text-align:left">Alien: Specimen

</th>

<td style="text-align:center">April 5, 2019 (2019-04-05)<a href="#cite_note-shorts-98">[98]</a>

</td>

<td>Kelsey Taylor<a href="#cite_note-shorts-98">[98]</a>

</td>

<td>Federico Fracchia<a href="#cite_note-shorts-98">[98]</a>

</td></tr>

<tr>

<th scope="row" style="text-align:left">Alien: Night Shift

</th>

<td style="text-align:center">April 12, 2019 (2019-04-12)<a href="#cite_note-shorts-98">[98]</a>

</td>

<td colspan="2">Aidan Breznick<a href="#cite_note-shorts-98">[98]</a>

</td></tr>

<tr>

<th scope="row" style="text-align:left">Alien: Ore

</th>

<td style="text-align:center">April 19, 2019 (2019-04-19)<a href="#cite_note-shorts-98">[98]</a>

</td>

<td colspan="2">Kailey & Sam Spear<a href="#cite_note-shorts-98">[98]</a>

</td></tr>

<tr>

<th scope="row" style="text-align:left">Alien: Harvest

</th>

<td rowspan="2" style="text-align:center">April 26, 2019 (2019-04-26)<a href="#cite_note-shorts-98">[98]</a>

</td>

<td>Benjamin Howdeshell<a href="#cite_note-shorts-98">[98]</a>

</td>

<td>Craig Dewey

</td></tr>

<tr>

<th scope="row" style="text-align:left">Alien: Alone

</th>

<td colspan="2">Noah Miller<a href="#cite_note-shorts-98">[98]</a>

</td></tr>

<tr>

<th scope="row" style="text-align:left">Alien: Covenant — David's Lab: Last Signs of Life

</th>

<td style="text-align:center">August 15, 2019 (2019-08-15)<a href="#cite_note-99">[99]</a>

</td>

<td>Allen Colombo<a href="#cite_note-colombo-100">[100]</a>

</td>

<td>Milena Westarb<a href="#cite_note-colombo-100">[100]</a>

</td>

<td>Effie Studios<a href="#cite_note-colombo-100">[100]</a>

</td></tr></tbody></table>

In 2012 and 2017 respectively, fourteen short films were produced to tie in with the releases of Prometheus and Alien: Covenant. In July 2018, it was reported that 20th Century Fox had joined forces with <a href="Tongal" title="Tongal">Tongal</a> to produce short films, intended to coincide with the 40th anniversary of the Alien franchise.<a href="#cite_note-101">[101]</a><a href="#cite_note-102">[102]</a><a href="#cite_note-103">[103]</a> By March 2019, the details of the anthology short films were released. Tongal co-founder and CEO James DeJulio stated that the joint-production is "reflective of Tongal's mission to bring creative opportunities to the next generation of talent." The shorts were released weekly on <a href="IGN" title="IGN">IGN</a>, after which they were uploaded to the Alien Universe web page, as well as all Alien social media pages on May 5 of the same year. All six of the short films premiered at the <a href="Emerald_City_Comic_Con" title="Emerald City Comic Con">Emerald City Comic Con</a> in <a href="Seattle" title="Seattle">Seattle</a>.<a href="#cite_note-shorts-98">[98]</a> The 40th anniversary short films are available as a <a href="Movies_Anywhere" title="Movies Anywhere">Movies Anywhere</a>-exclusive bonus feature accompanying the digital release of Alien.

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Television_and_web_series">Television and web series</h2></div>

<div style="display:block;overflow-x:auto"><table class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center;height:1px;display:table"><tbody><tr style="text-align:center"><th scope="col" rowspan="2" style="padding:0 8px">Series</th><th scope="col" rowspan="2" style="min-width:50px;padding:0 8px">Season</th><th scope="col" rowspan="2" colspan="2" style="padding:0 8px">Episodes</th><th scope="colgroup" colspan="3">Originally released</th><th scope="col" rowspan="2" style="padding:0 8px"><a href="Showrunner" title="Showrunner">Showrunner</a>(s)</th><th scope="col" rowspan="2" style="padding:0 8px">Status</th></tr><tr><th scope="col">First released</th><th scope="col">Last released</th><th scope="col" style="padding:0 8px">Network</th></tr><tr style="height:100%;border-bottom:2px solid #8D939A"><th scope="row" rowspan="1" style="border-bottom:2px solid #8D939A"><a href="Alien%3A_Isolation_%E2%80%93_The_Digital_Series" title="Alien: Isolation – The Digital Series">Alien: Isolation – The Digital Series</a></th><td scope="row" colspan="1" style="height:inherit;padding:0">1</td><td colspan="2">7</td><td colspan="2" style="padding:0.2em 0.4em">February 28, 2019 (2019-02-28)</td><td rowspan="1"><a href="IGN" title="IGN">IGN</a></td><td rowspan="1">Kinga Smith and Fabien Dubois</td><td rowspan="1">Concluded</td></tr>

<tr style="height:100%;border-bottom:2px solid #8D939A"><th scope="row" rowspan="1" style="border-bottom:2px solid #8D939A"><a href="Alien%3A_Earth" title="Alien: Earth">Alien: Earth</a></th><td scope="row" colspan="1" style="height:inherit;padding:0">1<a href="#cite_note-AlienEarthReleaseDate-104">[104]</a></td><td colspan="2">8</td><td colspan="1" style="padding:0.2em 0.4em">August 12, 2025 (2025-08-12)</td><td style="padding:0 8px">September 23, 2025 (2025-09-23)</td><td rowspan="1"><a href="FX_(TV_channel)" title="FX (TV channel)">FX</a> and <a href="FX_on_Hulu" class="mw-redirect" title="FX on Hulu">FX on Hulu</a></td><td rowspan="1"><a href="Noah_Hawley" title="Noah Hawley">Noah Hawley</a></td><td rowspan="1">Streaming</td></tr></tbody></table></div>

In 1979, 20th Century Fox considered producing a television series based on the 1979 film Alien, with the intention of <a href="American_Broadcasting_Company" title="American Broadcasting Company">ABC</a> picking it up, but its only media coverage was in the June 1980 Fangoria issue #6.<a href="#cite_note-105">[105]</a> In 1992, an animated series inspired by the 1986 film Aliens titled Operation: Aliens was being developed along with an LCD game, board game, a <a href="Sega_Genesis" title="Sega Genesis">Sega Genesis</a> <a href="Video_game" title="Video game">video game</a> by <a href="THQ" title="THQ">THQ</a>, and action figures.<a href="#cite_note-MMS10a1-106">[106]</a><a href="#cite_note-107">[107]</a><a href="#cite_note-108">[108]</a><a href="#cite_note-109">[109]</a> However, the brand lived on through Kenner toylines as simply Aliens and in the comics series included with the action figures as well as in the Aliens/Predator Universe trading cards set.<a href="#cite_note-110">[110]</a> In 2007, Ain't It Cool News reported that a (since cancelled) animated series inspired by the 1986 film Aliens titled Aliens: War Games was being developed.<a href="#cite_note-111">[111]</a><a href="#cite_note-112">[112]</a>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Alien:_Isolation_–_The_Digital_Series_(2019)">Alien: Isolation – The Digital Series (2019)</h3></div>

<div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="Alien%3A_Isolation_%E2%80%93_The_Digital_Series" title="Alien: Isolation – The Digital Series">Alien: Isolation – The Digital Series</a></div>

In 2014, Sega published the video game <a href="Alien%3A_Isolation" title="Alien: Isolation">Alien: Isolation</a>. In 2019, a seven-episode animated adaptation of the same name<a href="#cite_note-113">[113]</a> was released on February 28. The series, developed by 20th Century Fox, in conjunction with Reverse Engineering Studios and DVgroup, was created using a combination of brand-new scenes animated from scratch, cinematics taken directly from the original game, and digital recreations of first-person scenes from the game. Alien: Isolation is set in 2137, 15 years after the events of Alien and 42 years prior to <a href="Aliens_(film)" title="Aliens (film)">Aliens</a>, following <a href="Amanda_Ripley_(character)" class="mw-redirect" title="Amanda Ripley (character)">Amanda Ripley</a>, who is investigating the disappearance of her mother, Ellen Ripley, as she is transferred to the space station Sevastopol to find the flight recorder of the Nostromo only to discover an Alien has terrorized the station, killing the vast majority of the crew.<a href="#cite_note-114">[114]</a> <a href="Andrea_Deck" title="Andrea Deck">Andrea Deck</a> reprises her role as Amanda Ripley.

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Alien:_Earth_(2025)">Alien: Earth (2025)</h3></div>

<div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="Alien%3A_Earth" title="Alien: Earth">Alien: Earth</a></div>

On December 10, 2020, as part of Disney's Investor Day presentation, a new TV series project based on the franchise was announced to be in development for <a href="FX_on_Hulu" class="mw-redirect" title="FX on Hulu">FX on Hulu</a>, with <a href="Noah_Hawley" title="Noah Hawley">Noah Hawley</a> and Scott being involved (the former as showrunner and the latter as producer). It will be set on Earth in the near future, thus marking the first of the franchise to do so without featuring Ellen Ripley.<a href="#cite_note-115">[115]</a><a href="#cite_note-116">[116]</a> At the 2021 Television Critics Association Press Tour, FX network's John Landgraf said that the series will probably premiere in 2023.<a href="#cite_note-117">[117]</a> A casting sheet for characters Hermit and Wendy shed light on the show's leads.<a href="#cite_note-118">[118]</a> Reports suggested that the TV series would start filming in March 2022,<a href="#cite_note-119">[119]</a> but production was delayed until 2023, due to the <a href="COVID-19_pandemic" title="COVID-19 pandemic">COVID-19 pandemic</a>.<a href="#cite_note-120">[120]</a><a href="#cite_note-121">[121]</a> On April 6, Landgraf stated that the series was in "active preproduction".<a href="#cite_note-122">[122]</a> On July 19, the production of the series began in Thailand with <a href="Sydney_Chandler" title="Sydney Chandler">Sydney Chandler</a>, <a href="Alex_Lawther" title="Alex Lawther">Alex Lawther</a> and <a href="Samuel_Blenkin" title="Samuel Blenkin">Samuel Blenkin</a> being cast as the series' lead roles.<a href="#cite_note-123">[123]</a><a href="#cite_note-124">[124]</a> Alien: Earth premiered on <a href="FX_(TV_channel)" title="FX (TV channel)">FX</a> and <a href="FX_on_Hulu" class="mw-redirect" title="FX on Hulu">FX on Hulu</a> on August 12, 2025.<a href="#cite_note-AlienEarthReleaseDate-104">[104]</a>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Principal_cast">Principal cast</h3></div>

<div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="List_of_Alien_(franchise)_characters" title="List of Alien (franchise) characters">List of Alien (franchise) characters</a></div>

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This section includes characters who will appear or have appeared in the franchise.

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<th scope="col" rowspan="3">Character

</th>

<th scope="col" colspan="7">Alien Anthology

</th>

<th>Web series

</th>

<th>Television series

</th>

<th scope="col" colspan="4"><a href="#Alien_Day">Alien: The Audible Original Dramas</a>

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<th scope="col"><a href="Alien_(film)" title="Alien (film)">Alien</a>

</th>

<th scope="col"><a href="Aliens_(film)" title="Aliens (film)">Aliens</a>

</th>

<th scope="col"><a href="Alien_3" title="Alien 3">Alien 3</a>

</th>

<th scope="col"><a href="Alien_Resurrection" title="Alien Resurrection">Alien Resurrection</a>

</th>

<th scope="col"><a href="Prometheus_(2012_film)" title="Prometheus (2012 film)">Prometheus</a>

</th>

<th scope="col"><a href="Alien%3A_Covenant" title="Alien: Covenant">Alien: Covenant</a>

</th>

<th scope="col"><a href="Alien%3A_Romulus" title="Alien: Romulus">Alien: Romulus</a>

</th>

<th scope="col"><a href="Alien%3A_Isolation_%E2%80%93_The_Digital_Series" title="Alien: Isolation – The Digital Series">Alien: Isolation</a>

</th>

<th scope="col"><a href="Alien%3A_Earth" title="Alien: Earth">Alien: Earth</a>

</th>

<th scope="col"><a href="Alien%3A_Out_of_the_Shadows" title="Alien: Out of the Shadows">Alien: Out of the Shadows</a>

</th>

<th scope="col"><a href="Alien%3A_River_of_Pain" class="mw-redirect" title="Alien: River of Pain">Alien: River of Pain</a>

</th>

<th scope="col"><a href="#Novels">Sea of Sorrows</a>

</th>

<th scope="col"><a href="Alien_3_(podcast)" title="Alien 3 (podcast)">Alien III</a>

</th></tr>

<tr>

<td style="background:ivory;">1979

</td>

<td style="background:ivory;">1986

</td>

<td style="background:ivory;">1992

</td>

<td style="background:ivory;">1997

</td>

<td style="background:ivory;">2012

</td>

<td style="background:ivory;">2017

</td>

<td style="background:ivory;">2024

</td>

<td style="background:ivory;">2019

</td>

<td style="background:ivory;">2019

</td>

<td style="background:ivory;">2016

</td>

<td style="background:ivory;">2017

</td>

<td style="background:ivory;">2018

</td>

<td style="background:ivory;">2019

</td></tr>

<tr>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Main_characters">Main characters</h4></div>

</th></tr>

<tr>

<th><a href="Ellen_Ripley" title="Ellen Ripley">Ellen Ripley</a>

</th>

<td colspan="4"><a href="Sigourney_Weaver" title="Sigourney Weaver">Sigourney Weaver</a>

</td>

</td>

<td><a href="Andrea_Deck" title="Andrea Deck">Andrea Deck</a><a href="#endnote_voice">V</a>

</td>

</td>

<td colspan="4">Laurel Lefkow<a href="#endnote_voice">V</a>

</td></tr>

<tr>

<th><a href="Xenomorph" title="Xenomorph">Aliens</a>

</th>

<td><a href="Bolaji_Badejo" title="Bolaji Badejo">Bolaji Badejo</a>

</td>

<td>Carl Toop

</td>

<td colspan="2"><a href="Tom_Woodruff_Jr." title="Tom Woodruff Jr.">Tom Woodruff Jr.</a>

</td>

<td data-sort-value="" style="background: var(--background-color-interactive, #ececec); color: var(--color-base, inherit); vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-na">Appeared

</td>

<td><a href="Andrew_Crawford_(dancer)" title="Andrew Crawford (dancer)">Andrew Crawford</a><hr>Goran D. Kleut

</td>

<td>Trevor Newlin<hr><a href="Robert_Bobroczkyi" title="Robert Bobroczkyi">Robert Bobroczkyi</a>

</td>

<td colspan="6" data-sort-value="" style="background: var(--background-color-interactive, #ececec); color: var(--color-base, inherit); vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-na">Appeared

</td></tr>

<tr>

<th><a href="Ash_(Alien)" title="Ash (Alien)">Ash</a> / Rook

</th>

</td>

</td>

</td>

<td>Ian Holm (digital effect)

</td>

</td>

<td><a href="Rutger_Hauer" title="Rutger Hauer">Rutger Hauer</a><a href="#endnote_voice">V</a>

</td>

</td></tr>

<tr>

<th><a href="Bishop_(Aliens)" title="Bishop (Aliens)">Bishop II Michael Bishop Weyland</a>

</th>

</td>

<td colspan="2"><a href="Lance_Henriksen" title="Lance Henriksen">Lance Henriksen</a>

</td>

</td>

<td>Lance Henriksen<a href="#endnote_voice">V</a>

</td></tr>

<tr>

<th><a href="Newt_(Rebecca_Jorden)" class="mw-redirect" title="Newt (Rebecca Jorden)">Rebecca "Newt" Jorden</a>

</th>

</td>

<td><a href="Carrie_Henn" class="mw-redirect" title="Carrie Henn">Carrie Henn</a>

</td>

<td>Danielle Edmond

</td>

</td>

<td>Mairead Doherty<a href="#endnote_voice">V</a>

</td>

</td>

<td>Mairead Doherty<a href="#endnote_voice">V</a>

</td>

</td></tr>

<tr>

<th>Dwayne Hicks

</th>

</td>

<td><a href="Michael_Biehn" title="Michael Biehn">Michael Biehn</a>

</td>

<td>Michael Biehn<a href="#endnote_photo">P</a>

</td>

</td>

<td>Michael Biehn<a href="#endnote_voice">V</a>

</td></tr>

<tr>

<th>Anne Jorden

</th>

</td>

<td>Holly De Jong

</td>

</td>

<td><a href="Anna_Friel" title="Anna Friel">Anna Friel</a><a href="#endnote_voice">V</a>

</td>

</td></tr>

<tr>

<th><a href="Amanda_Ripley_(character)" class="mw-redirect" title="Amanda Ripley (character)">Amanda "Amy" Ripley-McClaren</a>

</th>

</td>

<td><a href="Elizabeth_Inglis" title="Elizabeth Inglis">Elizabeth Inglis</a><a href="#endnote_extend">E</a><a href="#endnote_photo">P</a>

</td>

</td>

<td>Andrea Deck<a href="#endnote_voice">V</a><hr><a href="Kezia_Burrows" title="Kezia Burrows">Kezia Burrows</a><a href="#endnote_mocap">MC</a>

</td>

</td></tr>

<tr>

<th><a href="Ellen_Ripley" title="Ellen Ripley">Ripley 8</a>

</th>

</td>

<td><a href="Sigourney_Weaver" title="Sigourney Weaver">Sigourney Weaver</a><hr>Nicole Fellows<a href="#endnote_young">Y</a>

</td>

</td>

<td>Laurel Lefkow<a href="#endnote_voice">V</a>

</td>

</td></tr>

<tr>

<th>Annalee Call

</th>

</td>

<td><a href="Winona_Ryder" title="Winona Ryder">Winona Ryder</a>

</td>

</td></tr>

<tr>

<th>Elizabeth M. Shaw

</th>

</td>

<td><a href="Noomi_Rapace" title="Noomi Rapace">Noomi Rapace</a><hr><a href="Lucy_Hutchinson_(actress)" title="Lucy Hutchinson (actress)">Lucy Hutchinson</a><a href="#endnote_young">Y</a>

</td>

<td>Noomi Rapace<a href="#endnote_photo">P</a>

</td>

</td></tr>

<tr>

<th><a href="David_8" title="David 8">David8</a>

</th>

</td>

<td colspan="2"><a href="Michael_Fassbender" title="Michael Fassbender">Michael Fassbender</a>

</td>

</td></tr>

<tr>

<th>Peter Weyland

</th>

</td>

<td><a href="Guy_Pearce" title="Guy Pearce">Guy Pearce</a>

</td>

<td>Guy Pearce<a href="#endnote_uncredited">U</a>

</td>

</td>

<td>Guy Pearce<a href="#endnote_voice">V</a>

</td>

</td></tr>

<tr>

<th>Charlie Holloway

</th>

</td>

<td><a href="Logan_Marshall-Green" title="Logan Marshall-Green">Logan Marshall-Green</a>

</td>

<td>Logan Marshall-Green<a href="#endnote_photo">P</a>

</td>

</td></tr>

<tr>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Supporting_characters">Supporting characters</h4></div>

</th></tr>

<tr>

<th>Arthur Dallas

</th>

<td><a href="Tom_Skerritt" title="Tom Skerritt">Tom Skerritt</a>

</td>

<td>Tom Skerritt<a href="#endnote_photo">P</a>

</td>

</td></tr>

<tr>

<th>Joan Lambert

</th>

<td><a href="Veronica_Cartwright" title="Veronica Cartwright">Veronica Cartwright</a>

</td>

<td>Veronica Cartwright<a href="#endnote_photo">P</a>

</td>

</td></tr>

<tr>

<th>Samuel Brett

</th>

<td><a href="Harry_Dean_Stanton" title="Harry Dean Stanton">Harry Dean Stanton</a>

</td>

<td>Harry Dean Stanton<a href="#endnote_photo">P</a>

</td>

</td></tr>

<tr>

<th>Gilbert Kane

</th>

</td>

</td>

</td></tr>

<tr>

<th>Dennis Parker

</th>

<td><a href="Yaphet_Kotto" title="Yaphet Kotto">Yaphet Kotto</a>

</td>

<td>Yaphet Kotto<a href="#endnote_photo">P</a>

</td>

</td></tr>

<tr>

<th>MU / TH / UR 6000 "Mother / Father"

</th>

<td><a href="Helen_Horton" title="Helen Horton">Helen Horton</a><a href="#endnote_voice">V</a>

</td>

</td>

<td><a href="Steven_Gilborn" title="Steven Gilborn">Steven Gilborn</a><a href="#endnote_voice">V</a>

</td>

</td>

<td><a href="Lorelei_King" title="Lorelei King">Lorelei King</a><a href="#endnote_voice">V</a>

</td>

</td>

<td>Tom Alexander<a href="#endnote_voice">V</a>

</td>

</td>

<td>Lorelei King<a href="#endnote_voice">V</a>

</td></tr>

<tr>

<th><a href="Jones_(fictional_cat)" title="Jones (fictional cat)">Jones</a>

</th>

<td colspan="2">Various animal performers

</td>

</td>

<td colspan="2">Various animal performers

</td>

</td></tr>

<tr>

<th>Engineers

</th>

<td data-sort-value="" style="background: var(--background-color-interactive, #ececec); color: var(--color-base, inherit); vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-na">Appeared

</td>

</td>

<td><a href="Ian_Whyte_(actor)" title="Ian Whyte (actor)">Ian Whyte</a><hr><a href="John_Lebar" title="John Lebar">John Lebar</a><hr>Daniel James

</td>

<td data-sort-value="" style="background: var(--background-color-interactive, #ececec); color: var(--color-base, inherit); vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-na">Appeared

</td>

</td>

<td data-sort-value="" style="background: var(--background-color-interactive, #ececec); color: var(--color-base, inherit); vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-na">Appeared

</td>

</td></tr>

<tr>

<th>Scott Gorman

</th>

</td>

<td><a href="William_Hope_(actor)" title="William Hope (actor)">William Hope</a>

</td>

</td>

<td>William Hope<a href="#endnote_voice">V</a>

</td>

</td></tr>

<tr>

<th>Al Simpson

</th>

</td>

<td><a href="Mac_McDonald" title="Mac McDonald">Mac McDonald</a>

</td>

</td>

<td>Mac McDonald<a href="#endnote_voice">V</a>

</td>

</td></tr>

<tr>

<th>Jernigan

</th>

</td>

<td><a href="Stuart_Milligan" title="Stuart Milligan">Stuart Milligan</a>

</td>

</td>

<td>Stuart Milligan<a href="#endnote_voice">V</a>

</td>

</td></tr>

<tr>

<th>Russ Jorden

</th>

</td>

<td><a href="Jay_Benedict" title="Jay Benedict">Jay Benedict</a>

</td>

</td>

<td><a href="Marc_Warren" title="Marc Warren">Marc Warren</a><a href="#endnote_voice">V</a>

</td>

</td></tr>

<tr>

<th>Timmy Jorden

</th>

</td>

<td>Christopher Henn

</td>

</td>

<td>Matt Keith Rauch<a href="#endnote_voice">V</a>

</td>

</td></tr>

<tr>

<th>Hudson

</th>

</td>

<td><a href="Bill_Paxton" title="Bill Paxton">Bill Paxton</a>

</td>

</td></tr></tbody></table>

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Additional_crew">Additional crew</h3></div>

<caption>Crew of Alien films

</caption>

<th scope="col" rowspan="2">Film

</th>

<th scope="col" colspan="8">Crew/detail

</th></tr>

<tr>

<th scope="col">Composer(s)

</th>

<th scope="col">Cinematographer

</th>

<th scope="col">Editor(s)

</th>

<th scope="col">Production companies

</th>

<th scope="col">Distributor

</th></tr>

<tr>

<th scope="row"><a href="Alien_(film)" title="Alien (film)">Alien</a>

</th>

<td><a href="Jerry_Goldsmith" title="Jerry Goldsmith">Jerry Goldsmith</a>

</td>

<td><a href="Derek_Vanlint" title="Derek Vanlint">Derek Vanlint</a>

</td>

<td><a href="Terry_Rawlings" title="Terry Rawlings">Terry Rawlings</a> Peter Weatherley

</td>

<td><a href="20th_Century_Studios" title="20th Century Studios">20th Century Studios</a> <a href="Brandywine_Productions" title="Brandywine Productions">Brandywine Productions</a> Brandywine-Ronald Shusett Productions

</td>

<td rowspan="6">20th Century Studios

</td></tr>

<tr>

<th scope="row"><a href="Aliens_(film)" title="Aliens (film)">Aliens</a>

</th>

<td><a href="James_Horner" title="James Horner">James Horner</a>

</td>

<td><a href="Adrian_Biddle" title="Adrian Biddle">Adrian Biddle</a>

</td>

<td><a href="Ray_Lovejoy" title="Ray Lovejoy">Ray Lovejoy</a>

</td>

<td>20th Century Studios SLM Production Group Brandywine Productions

</td></tr>

<tr>

<th scope="row"><a href="Alien_3" title="Alien 3">Alien 3</a>

</th>

<td><a href="Elliot_Goldenthal" title="Elliot Goldenthal">Elliot Goldenthal</a>

</td>

<td><a href="Alex_Thomson_(cinematographer)" title="Alex Thomson (cinematographer)">Alex Thomson</a>

</td>

<td><a href="Terry_Rawlings" title="Terry Rawlings">Terry Rawlings</a>

</td>

<td rowspan="2">20th Century Studios Brandywine Productions

</td></tr>

<tr>

<th scope="row"><a href="Alien_Resurrection" title="Alien Resurrection">Alien Resurrection</a>

</th>

<td><a href="John_Frizzell_(composer)" title="John Frizzell (composer)">John Frizzell</a>

</td>

<td><a href="Darius_Khondji" title="Darius Khondji">Darius Khondji</a>

</td>

<td><a href="Herv%C3%A9_Schneid" title="Hervé Schneid">Hervé Schneid</a>

</td></tr>

<tr>

<th scope="row"><a href="Prometheus_(2012_film)" title="Prometheus (2012 film)">Prometheus</a>

</th>

<td><a href="Marc_Streitenfeld" title="Marc Streitenfeld">Marc Streitenfeld</a>

</td>

<td rowspan="2"><a href="Dariusz_Wolski" title="Dariusz Wolski">Dariusz Wolski</a>

</td>

<td rowspan="2"><a href="Pietro_Scalia" title="Pietro Scalia">Pietro Scalia</a>

</td>

<td>20th Century Studios <a href="RatPac-Dune_Entertainment" class="mw-redirect" title="RatPac-Dune Entertainment">Dune Entertainment</a> <a href="Scott_Free_Productions" title="Scott Free Productions">Scott Free Productions</a> Brandywine Productions

</td></tr>

<tr>

<th scope="row"><a href="Alien%3A_Covenant" title="Alien: Covenant">Alien: Covenant</a>

</th>

<td><a href="Jed_Kurzel" title="Jed Kurzel">Jed Kurzel</a>

</td>

<td>20th Century Studios <a href="TSG_Entertainment" title="TSG Entertainment">TSG Entertainment</a> Scott Free Productions Brandywine Productions

</td></tr>

<tr>

<th scope="row"><a href="Alien%3A_Romulus" title="Alien: Romulus">Alien: Romulus</a>

</th>

<td><a href="Benjamin_Wallfisch" title="Benjamin Wallfisch">Benjamin Wallfisch</a>

</td>

<td>Galo Olivares

</td>

<td><a href="Jake_Roberts_(film_editor)" title="Jake Roberts (film editor)">Jake Roberts</a>

</td>

<td>Scott Free Productions Brandywine Productions

</td>

<td><a href="20th_Century_Studios" title="20th Century Studios">20th Century Studios</a> (<a href="Walt_Disney_Studios_Motion_Pictures" title="Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures">Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures</a>)

</td></tr></tbody></table>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Reception">Reception</h2></div>

<dl><dt>List indicator</dt>

<dd>(E) indicates figures based on available information.</dd></dl>

Figures in this table are not inflation adjusted. Where two different figures are quoted for box office grosses, information is taken from two different sources.

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Box_office_performance">Box office performance</h3></div>

<caption>Box office performance of Alien films

</caption>

<th scope="col" rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;">Film

</th>

<th scope="col" rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;">Release date

</th>

<th scope="col" colspan="3" style="text-align:center;">Box office revenue

</th>

<th scope="col" rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;">Budget

</th>

<th scope="col" rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;">References

</th></tr>

<tr>

<th scope="col" style="text-align:center;">North America

</th>

<th scope="col" style="text-align:center;">Foreign

</th>

<th scope="col" style="text-align:center;">Worldwide

</th></tr>

<tr>

<th scope="row"><a href="Alien_(film)" title="Alien (film)">Alien</a>

</th>

<td>May 25, 1979

</td>

<td style="text-align:right;">$64,324,049

</td>

<td style="text-align:right;">$122,631,433

</td>

<td style="text-align:right;">$186,955,482

</td>

<td style="text-align:center;">$10.7 million

</td>

</td></tr>

<tr>

<th scope="row"><a href="Aliens_(film)" title="Aliens (film)">Aliens</a>

</th>

<td>July 18, 1986

</td>

<td style="text-align:right;">$85,160,248

</td>

<td style="text-align:right;">$98,131,645

</td>

<td style="text-align:right;">$183,291,893

</td>

<td style="text-align:center;">$17 million

</td>

</td></tr>

<tr>

<th scope="row"><a href="Alien_3" title="Alien 3">Alien 3</a>

</th>

<td>May 22, 1992

</td>

<td style="text-align:right;">$54,927,174

</td>

<td style="text-align:right;">$103,572,826

</td>

<td style="text-align:right;">$158,500,000

</td>

<td style="text-align:center;">$55 million

</td>

</td></tr>

<tr>

<th scope="row"><a href="Alien_Resurrection" title="Alien Resurrection">Alien Resurrection</a>

</th>

<td>November 26, 1997

</td>

<td style="text-align:right;">$47,802,866

</td>

<td style="text-align:right;">$112,904,982

</td>

<td style="text-align:right;">$160,707,848

</td>

<td style="text-align:center;">$60 million

</td>

</td></tr>

<tr>

<th scope="row"><a href="Prometheus_(2012_film)" title="Prometheus (2012 film)">Prometheus</a>

</th>

<td>June 8, 2012

</td>

<td style="text-align:right;">$126,477,084

</td>

<td style="text-align:right;">$275,971,181

</td>

<td style="text-align:right;">$402,448,265

</td>

<td style="text-align:center;">$125 million

</td>

</td></tr>

<tr>

<th scope="row"><a href="Alien%3A_Covenant" title="Alien: Covenant">Alien: Covenant</a>

</th>

<td>May 19, 2017

</td>

<td style="text-align:right;">$74,262,031

</td>

<td style="text-align:right;">$164,259,216

</td>

<td style="text-align:right;">$238,521,247

</td>

<td style="text-align:center;">$97 million

</td>

</td></tr>

<tr>

<th scope="row"><a href="Alien%3A_Romulus" title="Alien: Romulus">Alien: Romulus</a>

</th>

<td>August 16, 2024

</td>

<td style="text-align:right;">$105,313,091

</td>

<td style="text-align:right;">$245,552,251

</td>

<td style="text-align:right;">$350,865,342

</td>

<td style="text-align:center;">$80 million

</td>

</td></tr>

<tr>

<th scope="row" colspan="2">Total

</th>

<th>$558,266,543

</th>

<th>$1,123,023,534

</th>

<th>$1,681,290,077

</th>

<th style="text-align:right;">(E) $444.7 million

</th>

<th>

</th></tr></tbody></table>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Critical_and_public_response">Critical and public response</h3></div>

<th scope="col" rowspan="2">Film

</th>

<th scope="col" colspan="2">Critical

</th>

<th colspan="2" scope="col">Public

</th></tr>

<tr>

<th scope="col"><a href="Rotten_Tomatoes" title="Rotten Tomatoes">Rotten Tomatoes</a>

</th>

<th scope="col"><a href="Metacritic" title="Metacritic">Metacritic</a>

</th>

<th scope="col"><a href="CinemaScore" title="CinemaScore">CinemaScore</a><a href="#cite_note-CinemaScore-127">[127]</a>

</th></tr>

<tr>

<th scope="row"><a href="Alien_(film)#Critical_reception" title="Alien (film)">Alien</a>

</th>

<td>93% (203 reviews)<a href="#cite_note-128">[128]</a>

</td>

<td>89 (34 reviews)<a href="#cite_note-129">[129]</a>

</td>

<td data-sort-value="" style="background: var(--background-color-interactive, #ececec); color: var(--color-base, inherit); vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-na">—

</td></tr>

<tr>

<th scope="row"><a href="Aliens_(film)#Critical_response" title="Aliens (film)">Aliens</a>

</th>

<td>94% (143 reviews)<a href="#cite_note-130">[130]</a>

</td>

<td>84 (22 reviews)<a href="#cite_note-131">[131]</a>

</td>

<td>A

</td></tr>

<tr>

<th scope="row"><a href="Alien_3#Critical_response" title="Alien 3">Alien 3</a>

</th>

<td>44% (126 reviews)<a href="#cite_note-132">[132]</a>

</td>

<td>59 (20 reviews)<a href="#cite_note-133">[133]</a>

</td>

<td>C

</td></tr>

<tr>

<th scope="row"><a href="Alien_Resurrection#Critical_response" title="Alien Resurrection">Alien Resurrection</a>

</th>

<td>55% (161 reviews)<a href="#cite_note-134">[134]</a>

</td>

<td>62 (21 reviews)<a href="#cite_note-135">[135]</a>

</td>

<td>B−

</td></tr>

<tr>

<th scope="row"><a href="Prometheus_(2012_film)#Critical_reception" title="Prometheus (2012 film)">Prometheus</a>

</th>

<td>73% (312 reviews)<a href="#cite_note-PrometheusRT-31">[31]</a>

</td>

<td>64 (43 reviews)<a href="#cite_note-136">[136]</a>

</td>

<td>B

</td></tr>

<tr>

<th scope="row"><a href="Alien%3A_Covenant#Critical_response" title="Alien: Covenant">Alien: Covenant</a>

</th>

<td>65% (408 reviews)<a href="#cite_note-137">[137]</a>

</td>

<td>65 (52 reviews)<a href="#cite_note-138">[138]</a>

</td>

<td>B

</td></tr>

<tr>

<th scope="row"><a href="Alien%3A_Romulus#Critical_response" title="Alien: Romulus">Alien: Romulus</a>

</th>

<td>80% (405 reviews)<a href="#cite_note-139">[139]</a>

</td>

<td>64 (57 reviews)<a href="#cite_note-140">[140]</a>

</td>

<td>B+

</td></tr></tbody></table>

The <a href="American_Film_Institute" title="American Film Institute">American Film Institute</a> ranked Alien as the sixth <a href="AFI's_100_Years..._100_Thrills" class="mw-redirect" title="AFI's 100 Years... 100 Thrills">most thrilling American movie</a> and <a href="AFI's_10_Top_10" title="AFI's 10 Top 10">seventh-best film in the science fiction genre</a>, and in the <a href="AFI's_100_Years..._100_Heroes_and_Villains" class="mw-redirect" title="AFI's 100 Years... 100 Heroes and Villains">AFI's 100 Years... 100 Heroes and Villains</a> list, Ripley was ranked eighth among the heroes, and the Alien was fourteenth among the villains. IGN listed Alien as the thirteenth best film franchise of all time in 2006.<a href="#cite_note-141">[141]</a> Alien was also inducted into the <a href="National_Film_Registry" title="National Film Registry">National Film Registry</a> of the <a href="Library_of_Congress" title="Library of Congress">Library of Congress</a> for historical preservation as a film which is "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."<a href="#cite_note-nfpb_about-142">[142]</a><a href="#cite_note-national_film_registry-143">[143]</a>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Accolades">Accolades</h3></div>

<div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="List_of_accolades_received_by_the_Alien_film_series" title="List of accolades received by the Alien film series">List of accolades received by the Alien film series</a></div>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Academy_Awards">Academy Awards</h4></div>

<caption>Academy Award nominations for Alien films

</caption>

<th scope="col">Award

</th>

<th scope="col">Alien

</th>

<th scope="col">Aliens

</th>

<th scope="col">Alien 3

</th>

<th scope="col">Prometheus

</th>

<th scope="col">Alien: Romulus

</th></tr>

<tr>

<th scope="row"><a href="Academy_Award_for_Best_Actress" title="Academy Award for Best Actress">Actress</a>

</th>

<td>

</td>

<td style="background: #FFE3E3; color: black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="no table-no2 notheme">Nominated

</td>

<td>

</td>

<td>

</td>

<td>

</td></tr>

<tr>

<th scope="row"><a href="Academy_Award_for_Best_Art_Direction" class="mw-redirect" title="Academy Award for Best Art Direction">Art Direction</a>

</th>

<td style="background: #FFE3E3; color: black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="no table-no2 notheme">Nominated

</td>

<td style="background: #FFE3E3; color: black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="no table-no2 notheme">Nominated

</td>

<td>

</td>

<td>

</td>

<td>

</td></tr>

<tr>

<th scope="row"><a href="Academy_Award_for_Best_Film_Editing" title="Academy Award for Best Film Editing">Film Editing</a>

</th>

<td>

</td>

<td style="background: #FFE3E3; color: black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="no table-no2 notheme">Nominated

</td>

<td>

</td>

<td>

</td>

<td>

</td></tr>

<tr>

<th scope="row"><a href="Academy_Award_for_Best_Original_Score" title="Academy Award for Best Original Score">Original Score</a>

</th>

<td>

</td>

<td style="background: #FFE3E3; color: black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="no table-no2 notheme">Nominated

</td>

<td>

</td>

<td>

</td>

<td>

</td></tr>

<tr>

<th scope="row"><a href="Academy_Award_for_Best_Sound" title="Academy Award for Best Sound">Sound</a>

</th>

<td>

</td>

<td style="background: #FFE3E3; color: black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="no table-no2 notheme">Nominated

</td>

<td>

</td>

<td>

</td>

<td>

</td></tr>

<tr>

<th scope="row"><a href="Academy_Award_for_Best_Sound_Editing" class="mw-redirect" title="Academy Award for Best Sound Editing">Sound Effects Editing</a>

</th>

<td>

</td>

<td style="background: #9EFF9E; color: #000; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="yes table-yes2 notheme">Won

</td>

<td>

</td>

<td>

</td>

<td>

</td></tr>

<tr>

<th scope="row"><a href="Academy_Award_for_Best_Visual_Effects" title="Academy Award for Best Visual Effects">Visual Effects</a>

</th>

<td style="background: #9EFF9E; color: #000; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="yes table-yes2 notheme">Won

</td>

<td style="background: #9EFF9E; color: #000; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="yes table-yes2 notheme">Won

</td>

<td style="background: #FFE3E3; color: black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="no table-no2 notheme">Nominated

</td>

<td style="background: #FFE3E3; color: black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="no table-no2 notheme">Nominated

</td>

<td style="background: #FFE3E3; color: black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="no table-no2 notheme">Nominated

</td></tr></tbody></table>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Alien_Day">Alien Day</h3></div>

"Alien Day", April 26, has become the fan celebration day for the Alien franchise. The date derives from LV-426, the "426" converting to "4/26" or "April 26".<a href="#cite_note-blee_Happ-144">[144]</a> On Alien Day 2016, Neill Blomkamp released new art for his concept of Alien 5,<a href="#cite_note-145">[145]</a> and the <a href="Audible_(store)" class="mw-redirect" title="Audible (store)">Audible Original</a> audio play adaptation of <a href="Alien%3A_Out_of_the_Shadows" title="Alien: Out of the Shadows">Alien: Out of the Shadows</a> was released. On Alien Day 2017, 20th Century Fox released "The Crossing" prologue short film for <a href="Alien%3A_Covenant" title="Alien: Covenant">Alien: Covenant</a>,<a href="#cite_note-146">[146]</a> and the Audible Original audio play adaptation of <a href="Alien_novels" class="mw-redirect" title="Alien novels">Alien: River of Pain</a> was released.

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Alien:_The_Play">Alien: The Play</h3></div>

From March 19 to 22, 2019, North Bergen High School (New Jersey, US) staged an adaptation of Alien entitled Alien: The Play, which was widely praised and granted seals of approval by <a href="Ridley_Scott" title="Ridley Scott">Ridley Scott</a>, <a href="James_Cameron" title="James Cameron">James Cameron</a>, <a href="Sigourney_Weaver" title="Sigourney Weaver">Sigourney Weaver</a> and <a href="Walter_Hill" title="Walter Hill">Walter Hill</a>. In the aftermath of the play's popularity and approval, North Bergen Mayor Nick Sacco's non-profit foundation pledged funds for more performances.<a href="#cite_note-147">[147]</a>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="In_academia">In academia</h3></div>

The Bishop character has been the subject of literary and philosophical analysis as a high-profile android character conforming to <a href="Science_fiction" title="Science fiction">science fiction</a> author <a href="Isaac_Asimov" title="Isaac Asimov">Isaac Asimov</a>'s <a href="Three_Laws_of_Robotics" title="Three Laws of Robotics">Three Laws of Robotics</a> and as a model of a compliant, potentially <a href="Artificial_consciousness" title="Artificial consciousness">self-aware</a> machine.<a href="#cite_note-148">[148]</a> The portrayal of androids in the Alien series—Ash in Alien, Bishop in Aliens and Alien 3, and Call (<a href="Winona_Ryder" title="Winona Ryder">Winona Ryder</a>) in <a href="Alien_Resurrection" title="Alien Resurrection">Alien Resurrection</a> (1997)—has been studied for its implications relating to how humans deal with the presence of an "<a href="Other_(philosophy)" title="Other (philosophy)">Other</a>", as Ripley treats them with fear and suspicion, and a form of "hi-tech racism and android apartheid" is present throughout the series.<a href="#cite_note-149">[149]</a><a href="#cite_note-150">[150]</a> This is seen as part of a larger trend of <a href="Technophobia" title="Technophobia">technophobia</a> in films prior to the 1990s, with Bishop's role being particularly significant as he redeems himself at the end of Aliens, thus confounding Ripley's expectations.<a href="#cite_note-151">[151]</a>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Music">Music</h2></div>

<caption>Soundtracks for Alien films

</caption>

<th scope="col">Title

</th>

<th scope="col">U.S. release date

</th>

<th scope="col">Length

</th>

<th scope="col">Composer(s)

</th>

<th scope="col">Label

</th></tr>

<tr>

<th scope="row" style="text-align:left"><a href="Alien_(soundtrack)" title="Alien (soundtrack)">Alien: Original Motion Picture Score</a>

</th>

<td style="text-align:left">1979

</td>

<td style="text-align:left">33:37

</td>

<td><a href="Jerry_Goldsmith" title="Jerry Goldsmith">Jerry Goldsmith</a>

</td>

<td><a href="20th_Century_Fox_Records#20th_Century_Records" title="20th Century Fox Records">20th Century</a>

</td></tr>

<tr>

<th scope="row" style="text-align:left"><a href="Aliens_(soundtrack)" title="Aliens (soundtrack)">Aliens: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack</a>

</th>

<td style="text-align:left">October 25, 1987

</td>

<td style="text-align:left">39:57

</td>

<td><a href="James_Horner" title="James Horner">James Horner</a>

</td>

<td><a href="Var%C3%A8se_Sarabande" title="Varèse Sarabande">Varèse Sarabande</a>

</td></tr>

<tr>

<th scope="row" style="text-align:left"><a href="Alien_3_(soundtrack)" title="Alien 3 (soundtrack)">Alien 3: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack</a>

</th>

<td style="text-align:left">June 9, 1992

</td>

<td style="text-align:left">47:58

</td>

<td><a href="Elliot_Goldenthal" title="Elliot Goldenthal">Elliot Goldenthal</a>

</td>

</td></tr>

<tr>

<th scope="row" style="text-align:left"><a href="Alien_Resurrection_(soundtrack)" title="Alien Resurrection (soundtrack)">Alien Resurrection: Complete Motion Picture Score</a>

</th>

<td style="text-align:left">November 11, 1997

</td>

<td style="text-align:left">45:13

</td>

<td><a href="John_Frizzell_(composer)" title="John Frizzell (composer)">John Frizzell</a>

</td>

</td></tr>

<tr>

<th scope="row" style="text-align:left"><a href="Prometheus_(soundtrack)" title="Prometheus (soundtrack)">Prometheus: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack</a>

</th>

<td style="text-align:left">May 15, 2012

</td>

<td style="text-align:left">57:07

</td>

<td><a href="Marc_Streitenfeld" title="Marc Streitenfeld">Marc Streitenfeld</a>

</td>

<td><a href="Sony_Classical_Records" title="Sony Classical Records">Sony Classical</a> <a href="Fox_Music" title="Fox Music">Fox Music</a>

</td></tr>

<tr>

<th scope="row" style="text-align:left"><a href="Alien%3A_Covenant_(soundtrack)" title="Alien: Covenant (soundtrack)">Alien: Covenant (Original Soundtrack Album)</a>

</th>

<td style="text-align:left">May 19, 2017

</td>

<td style="text-align:left">58:57

</td>

<td><a href="Jed_Kurzel" title="Jed Kurzel">Jed Kurzel</a>

</td>

<td><a href="Milan_Records" title="Milan Records">Milan</a>

</td></tr>

<tr>

<th scope="row" style="text-align:left"><a href="Alien%3A_Romulus_(soundtrack)" title="Alien: Romulus (soundtrack)">Alien: Romulus (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)</a>

</th>

<td style="text-align:left">August 16, 2024

</td>

<td style="text-align:left">56:56

</td>

<td><a href="Benjamin_Wallfisch" title="Benjamin Wallfisch">Benjamin Wallfisch</a>

</td>

<td><a href="Hollywood_Records" title="Hollywood Records">Hollywood</a>

</td></tr></tbody></table>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Home_media">Home media</h2></div>

There have been dozens of stand-alone releases of the individual films on various formats, including <a href="Betamax" title="Betamax">Betamax</a>, <a href="VHS" title="VHS">VHS</a>, <a href="Laserdisc" class="mw-redirect" title="Laserdisc">Laserdisc</a>, <a href="DVD" title="DVD">DVD</a>, and <a href="Blu-ray" title="Blu-ray">Blu-ray</a>. The multiple single releases on VHS were generally the original theatrical cuts of each film.

<a href="Laserdisc" class="mw-redirect" title="Laserdisc">Laserdisc</a> saw single releases of all theatrical versions, as well as two so-called "<a href="Box_sets" class="mw-redirect" title="Box sets">box sets</a>" which only contained one film (there were two single releases, one each for Alien and Aliens) but had multiple discs and a large amount of supplemental material with a high retail price tag (around US$100). The Aliens set included a new "Special Edition" cut of the film completed by <a href="James_Cameron" title="James Cameron">James Cameron</a> just for this release, which was a significantly extended version of the film.

The films made their <a href="DVD" title="DVD">DVD</a> debut in 1999, both as part of a boxed set (see Alien Legacy below) and as separate single-disc releases of each film (Aliens was only available in its "Special Edition" cut, not its original theatrical cut, which did not make it to DVD until the next boxed set). Following the Alien Quadrilogy set (see below), each film received individual two-disc releases containing the content of each film from that set. Since then, there have been multiple issues and reissues of the films, in both their theatrical or extended version, though some single releases include both.

In addition to the single releases, there have been seven complete <a href="Box_set" title="Box set">box sets</a> of the series at various points in its history. With the exception of the DVD version of the Aliens Triple Pack, each release contained all films that had come out at the time the sets were released. The seven box sets each had unique characteristics and features which were then sometimes reused in later sets or single releases in one form or another, most notably the Blu-ray Anthology, which includes a detailed archive of many previous releases, including the rare Laserdisc box sets.

<ul><li>Alien Triple Pack (VHS, 1992), containing the first two films in the series and a third cassette with a 23-minute preview of the then upcoming theatrical release of Alien 3.<a href="#cite_note-152">[152]</a> (Not to be confused with the 2008 DVD set of the same name below.)</li>

<li>Alien Trilogy (VHS, 1993), a three-cassette packaging of Alien, Aliens (in its LaserDisc Special Edition cut, for the first time on another format) and Alien 3.<a href="#cite_note-153">[153]</a></li>

<li>Alien Saga (VHS, 1997), UK boxed set with the first three films plus a "Making of Alien Resurrection" cassette. It was released again in 1998 with the Alien Resurrection film included. A Japan-exclusive Laserdisc pack containing the first three films released in 1999 also had the same name.<a href="#cite_note-154">[154]</a> (A planned U.S. version was canceled as DVDs were quickly taking over the much smaller domestic Laserdisc market in that country.)<a href="#cite_note-155">[155]</a></li>

<li>Alien Legacy (VHS/DVD, 1999), a four-volume set containing the 1991 Laserdisc "Special Edition" cut of Aliens, the theatrical versions of the other three films, and on DVD various supplemental materials that were either re-used from Laserdisc or newly created.<a href="#cite_note-156">[156]</a></li>

<li>Alien Quadrilogy (DVD, 2003), considered one of the most exhaustive box sets of the DVD era in terms of content and special features, was spread over nine discs: four discs (one disc each) for the theatrical and extended cuts of each film (new "2003" cuts of Alien, Alien 3, and Alien Resurrection and the previously released 1991 "Special Edition" cut of Aliens), four discs containing special features specific to each film, and an extra disc of documentaries and other supplemental content.<a href="#cite_note-157">[157]</a><a href="#cite_note-158">[158]</a>

<ul><li>The films were later re-released as two-disc individual titles as part of 20th Century Fox's Collector's Series.</li></ul></li>

<li>Alien Triple Pack (DVD, 2008), a three-disc package including the theatrical cuts of Alien and Alien 3, as well as the "Special Edition" of Aliens. This set reused the name of the 1992 VHS set (this was an unusual release in that Alien Resurrection was not included, making this the first franchise box set it had not appeared in since its release).<a href="#cite_note-159">[159]</a></li>

<li>Alien Anthology (Blu-ray, 2010), an exclusive six-disc release featuring two versions of each film (theatrical, and the 2003 cuts from the Alien Quadrilogy set—except for changes to the 2003 Alien 3 "Workprint" version which included having some original voice actors come back to re-record poorly captured dialogue in newly inserted extended scenes, and fixed production errors on the "special edition" of Aliens<a href="#cite_note-160">[160]</a>) and almost all special features and supplements from the previous releases (including an archive of the special edition Laserdisc box sets with all their image galleries and other unique content). As with the Quadrilogy DVD, the two versions of each film were housed on a single disc, while the storage capacity of Blu-ray means the previous five discs of special features were included on the remaining two discs in the set, which held approximately 60 hours of bonus video content and over 12,000 still images.<a href="#cite_note-161">[161]</a> Most subsequent releases of the films on the Blu-ray medium are repackaged versions of the Blu-ray disks contained in this box set. A discount box set without the two additional discs of bonus features was also released.</li>

<li>Alien/Aliens Dual Pack (DVD), including the theatrical cuts of both Alien and Aliens. A separate dual pack was released containing the theatrical and extended versions of Alien vs. Predator and the unrated Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem.</li>

<li>Prometheus to Alien: The Evolution (Blu-ray, 2012), containing all of the Alien films, Prometheus, and a bonus material disk for Prometheus.</li>

<li>All of the Alien films, including Prometheus, have been released in special <a href="SteelBook" class="mw-redirect" title="SteelBook">SteelBook</a> Blu-ray editions, although these do not come in a boxed set. While the Alien SteelBooks themselves contain the Blu-ray disks on their own, the Prometheus SteelBook contains both Blu-ray and Blu-ray 3D versions of the film, as well as a bonus feature Blu-ray disk with seven hours of content. With the exception of Prometheus, the films had been previously released as DVD Definitive editions, which featured SteelBook casing and contained both DVD versions (theatrical and directors cuts) of the films and a bonus feature disk.</li>

<li>Alien: The 35th Anniversary Edition (Blu-ray, 2014), released to mark the 35th anniversary of the release of the film, containing both a Blu-ray and a Digital HD copy, a reprint of Alien: The Illustrated Story and a series of collectible art cards containing artwork by H. R. Giger related to the film. The disk itself is the same as the respective disk on the 2010 Anthology Blu-ray release, and contains MOTHER mode, despite the lack of the required bonus disk. A reprint of the novel by <a href="Alan_Dean_Foster" title="Alan Dean Foster">Alan Dean Foster</a> was also released, along with reprints of all other novels, with the Alien Resurrection novel available as of May 2015.</li>

<li>The Alien Universe box set was released exclusively through <a href="Walmart" title="Walmart">Walmart</a> on April 18, 2017, and included four limited edition poster cards designed by the Mondo art company.<a href="#cite_note-162">[162]</a></li>

<li>The Alien: 6-Film Collection, released in 2017 in regular Blu-ray and SteelBook, contains the first six films in the franchise.<a href="#cite_note-163">[163]</a></li></ul>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Other_media">Other media</h2></div>

There exists a great number of <a href="Spin-off_(media)" class="mw-redirect" title="Spin-off (media)">spin-offs</a> in other media, including a large number of <a href="Fictional_crossover" class="mw-redirect" title="Fictional crossover">crossovers</a> with the Predator franchise.

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Print_media">Print media</h3></div>

Alien print media has been published since shortly before the release of the original eponymous film, in 1979. The full library of these literary works include novelizations of the films, original content that expand upon the fictional universe, comics and companion books for both the cataloging of in-universe elements and supplemental works concerning the development of the franchise. These include works by special effects company <a href="Amalgamated_Dynamics" title="Amalgamated Dynamics">Amalgamated Dynamics</a> Incorporated (ADI), which assisted with the effects in Alien 3 and Alien Resurrection.

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Novels">Novels</h4></div>

<div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="List_of_Alien_(franchise)_novels" title="List of Alien (franchise) novels">List of Alien (franchise) novels</a></div>

Several novelizations of each of the six films and some comic books as well as original canonical novels based on the franchise have been released. The original novels include <a href="Alien%3A_Out_of_the_Shadows" title="Alien: Out of the Shadows">Alien: Out of the Shadows</a>, Alien: Sea of Sorrows, Alien: River of Pain, marketed as the "Canonical Alien Trilogy" and the short story collection Aliens: Bug Hunt. Out of the Shadows and River of Pain were adapted into <a href="Audio_dramas" class="mw-redirect" title="Audio dramas">audio dramas</a> in 2016 and 2017 respectively released on the <a href="Alien_Day" class="mw-redirect" title="Alien Day">Alien Day</a> of the respective year. <a href="Alan_Dean_Foster" title="Alan Dean Foster">Alan Dean Foster</a> published Alien: Covenant – Origins, a novel set between the events of Prometheus and Alien: Covenant. <a href="Titan_Books" class="mw-redirect" title="Titan Books">Titan Books</a> would also release a series of different novels, including for example <a href="Aliens%3A_Phalanx" title="Aliens: Phalanx">Aliens: Phalanx</a> in 2020 and <a href="Alien%3A_Uncivil_War" class="mw-redirect" title="Alien: Uncivil War">Alien: Uncivil War</a> in 2024.

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Comic_books">Comic books</h4></div>

<div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="List_of_Alien_(franchise)_comics" title="List of Alien (franchise) comics">List of Alien (franchise) comics</a></div>

In addition to <a href="Alien%3A_The_Illustrated_Story" title="Alien: The Illustrated Story">Alien: The Illustrated Story</a>, a graphic novel adaptation of the original film, there have been numerous limited series set in the Alien universe, as well as non-canonical crossover appearances of the Alien. In addition to <a href="List_of_Alien_vs._Predator_(franchise)_comics" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Alien vs. Predator (franchise) comics">Alien vs. Predator comics</a> featuring the Alien and <a href="Predator_(fictional_species)" title="Predator (fictional species)">Predator</a> battling, Dark Horse Comics published <a href="Fire_and_Stone" title="Fire and Stone">Fire and Stone</a> between 2014 and 2017, crossing over the continuities of the Prometheus prequel series with the Alien vs. Predator franchise.

Dark Horse Comics also published a number of other miniseries crossovers, featuring the Alien species as an enemy pitted against prolific characters from other continuities. In 1995, the miniseries <a href="Superman/Aliens" title="Superman/Aliens">Superman/Aliens</a> featured Aliens fighting against <a href="Superman" title="Superman">Superman</a>, while his powers are diminished.<a href="#cite_note-164">[164]</a> Between 1997 and 2002, a two-part miniseries called <a href="Batman/Aliens" title="Batman/Aliens">Batman/Aliens</a> was published, depicting <a href="Batman" title="Batman">Batman</a> fighting against a horde of Aliens in a jungle bordering <a href="Mexico" title="Mexico">Mexico</a> and <a href="Guatemala" title="Guatemala">Guatemala</a>.<a href="#cite_note-165">[165]</a> In 1998, <a href="WildStorm" title="WildStorm">WildStorm</a>, (now a part of <a href="Image_Comics" title="Image Comics">Image Comics</a>), and Dark Horse Comics published an <a href="Intercompany_crossover" class="mw-redirect" title="Intercompany crossover">intercompany crossover</a> event called <a href="WildC.A.T.s/Aliens" title="WildC.A.T.s/Aliens">WildC.A.T.s/Aliens</a>, featuring the <a href="Wildcats_(comics)" title="Wildcats (comics)">Wildcats</a> battling the Aliens.<a href="#cite_note-166">[166]</a> <a href="Green_Lantern_Versus_Aliens" title="Green Lantern Versus Aliens">Green Lantern Versus Aliens</a>, an intercompany crossover event between Dark Horse and <a href="DC_Comics" title="DC Comics">DC Comics</a>, features a plot beyond either continuity, where the Aliens residing on the Green Lantern planet <a href="Mogo" title="Mogo">Mogo</a> get out of control and must be exterminated.<a href="#cite_note-167">[167]</a> In 2003, Dark Horse published <a href="Judge_Dredd_vs._Aliens" class="mw-redirect" title="Judge Dredd vs. Aliens">Judge Dredd vs. Aliens</a>, depicting an Alien invasion in <a href="Mega-City_One" title="Mega-City One">Mega-City One</a>, necessitating for <a href="Judge_Dredd" title="Judge Dredd">Judge Dredd</a> to intervene, to destroy the infestation.<a href="#cite_note-168">[168]</a>

In July 2020, <a href="Marvel_Comics" title="Marvel Comics">Marvel Comics</a> announced that it had acquired the comic book rights to the Alien franchise, in addition to the rights to the Predator and Alien vs. Predator franchises.<a href="#cite_note-169">[169]</a> Marvel announced the Alien series in December 2020, with Phillip Kennedy Johnson writing and <a href="Salvador_Larroca" title="Salvador Larroca">Salvador Larroca</a> illustrating it. Issue #1 was released in March 2021.<a href="#cite_note-170">[170]</a>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Picture_books">Picture books</h4></div>

Jonesy: Nine Lives on the Nostromo is a 2018 picture book that retells the plot of Alien (1979) from the perspective of Jones, the <a href="Ship's_cat" title="Ship's cat">ship's cat</a> from the film.<a href="#cite_note-171">[171]</a>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Video_games">Video games</h3></div>

<div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="List_of_Alien%2C_Predator%2C_and_Alien_vs._Predator_games" title="List of Alien, Predator, and Alien vs. Predator games">List of Alien, Predator, and Alien vs. Predator games</a></div>

Since the launch of the Alien franchise, there have been numerous video games released over the years, spanning a variety of genres. In addition to appearances in crossover video games, including those from the Alien vs. Predator franchise, <a href="Mortal_Kombat_X" title="Mortal Kombat X">Mortal Kombat X</a>, and <a href="Dead_by_Daylight" title="Dead by Daylight">Dead by Daylight</a>, the four films from the original series were adapted into video games, typically multiple times.<a href="#cite_note-172">[172]</a> The first release was <a href="Alien_(1982_video_game)" title="Alien (1982 video game)">Alien</a> (1982) for the <a href="Atari_2600" title="Atari 2600">Atari 2600</a>, inspired heavily by <a href="Pac-Man" title="Pac-Man">Pac-Man</a>. A second adaptation of the first film was released in 1984. The sequel, Aliens was adapted into four different video games: two different 1986 games titled <a href="Aliens%3A_The_Computer_Game_(US_Version)" title="Aliens: The Computer Game (US Version)">Aliens: The Computer Game</a>, a collection of minigames by <a href="Activision" title="Activision">Activision</a> and a <a href="First-person_shooter" title="First-person shooter">first-person shooter</a> by <a href="Software_Studios" class="mw-redirect" title="Software Studios">Software Studios</a>; as well as two different games titled Aliens, a 1987 <a href="MSX" title="MSX">MSX</a> <a href="Platform_game" class="mw-redirect" title="Platform game">platformer</a> by <a href="Square_(video_game_company)" title="Square (video game company)">Square</a> and a 1990 <a href="Arcade_game" title="Arcade game">arcade</a> <a href="Shoot_'em_up" title="Shoot 'em up">shoot 'em up</a> by <a href="Konami" title="Konami">Konami</a>. <a href="Acclaim_Entertainment" title="Acclaim Entertainment">Acclaim Entertainment</a> released three different games based on Alien 3; two different <a href="Run_and_gun_(video_game)" class="mw-redirect" title="Run and gun (video game)">run and gun</a> platformers - one for consoles in 1992, another for the <a href="Super_Nintendo_Entertainment_System" title="Super Nintendo Entertainment System">SNES</a> a year later - and a <a href="Game_Boy" title="Game Boy">Game Boy</a> <a href="Adventure_game" title="Adventure game">adventure game</a> in 1993. <a href="Sega" title="Sega">Sega</a> also released a <a href="Light_gun" title="Light gun">light gun</a> arcade game Alien 3: The Gun in 1993. Acclaim's first-person shooter <a href="Alien_Trilogy" title="Alien Trilogy">Alien Trilogy</a> was released in 1996 and their adaptation of Alien Resurrection was released in 2000 as a <a href="PlayStation" title="PlayStation">PlayStation</a> first-person shooter.

Other Alien games include <a href="Mindscape_(company)" title="Mindscape (company)">Mindscape</a>'s adventure game Aliens: A Comic Book Adventure (1995), the first-person shooter Aliens Online (1998), the <a href="Game_Boy_Color" title="Game Boy Color">Game Boy Color</a> action game <a href="Aliens%3A_Thanatos_Encounter" title="Aliens: Thanatos Encounter">Aliens: Thanatos Encounter</a> (2001), the mobile phone game Aliens: Unleashed (2003), and the arcade game Aliens: Extermination (2006). In 2014, Play Mechanix and Raw Thrills released Aliens: Armageddon, a rail gun first person shooter that hit arcades soon after.<a href="#cite_note-173">[173]</a> Between 2016 and 2017, <a href="Zen_Studios" title="Zen Studios">Zen Studios</a> released <a href="Downloadable_content" title="Downloadable content">downloadable content</a> packs in a product line called "Alien vs. Pinball", featuring three <a href="Pinball#Computer_pinball_simulation" title="Pinball">virtual</a> <a href="Pinball" title="Pinball">pinball</a> tables based around the Alien and Alien vs. Predator franchises for <a href="Zen_Pinball_2" title="Zen Pinball 2">Zen Pinball 2</a>, <a href="Pinball_FX_2" title="Pinball FX 2">Pinball FX 2</a> and <a href="Pinball_FX_3" title="Pinball FX 3">Pinball FX 3</a>.<a href="#cite_note-174">[174]</a>

In 2006, Sega made a deal with Fox Licensing to release two Alien video games for <a href="Sixth_generation_of_video_game_consoles" title="Sixth generation of video game consoles">sixth generation consoles</a>.<a href="#cite_note-175">[175]</a> The first was <a href="Aliens%3A_Colonial_Marines" title="Aliens: Colonial Marines">Aliens: Colonial Marines</a>, a first-person shooter by <a href="Gearbox_Software" title="Gearbox Software">Gearbox Software</a> that was released in 2013 for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and Windows.<a href="#cite_note-176">[176]</a><a href="#cite_note-177">[177]</a> The game is set between Aliens and Alien 3, following a group of marines sent to investigate the Sulaco who wound up crash-landing on LV-426.<a href="#cite_note-screwup-178">[178]</a><a href="#cite_note-canon-179">[179]</a>

The second was <a href="Alien%3A_Isolation" title="Alien: Isolation">Alien: Isolation</a>, a survival-horror game by <a href="Creative_Assembly" title="Creative Assembly">Creative Assembly</a> that follows Ripley's daughter, <a href="Amanda_Ripley_(character)" class="mw-redirect" title="Amanda Ripley (character)">Amanda</a>, who is stranded aboard an Alien-infested space station. The game experienced a long development cycle, with it finally being released in late 2014 for <a href="Seventh_generation_of_video_game_consoles" title="Seventh generation of video game consoles">seventh generation consoles</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Edge_feature-180">[180]</a> During the prolonged development of Alien: Isolation, Sega also released a <a href="Nintendo_DS" title="Nintendo DS">Nintendo DS</a> game <a href="Aliens_Infestation" title="Aliens Infestation">Aliens Infestation</a> in 2011.<a href="#cite_note-Aliens:_Infestation_gamespot-181">[181]</a> Furthermore, a spin-off featuring Amanda Ripley called <a href="Alien%3A_Blackout" class="mw-redirect" title="Alien: Blackout">Alien: Blackout</a> was released for mobile devices in 2019.<a href="#cite_note-Alien_Blackout_review-182">[182]</a><a href="#cite_note-:0-183">[183]</a>

<a href="Aliens%3A_Dark_Descent" title="Aliens: Dark Descent">Aliens: Dark Descent</a>, a <a href="Real-time_strategy" title="Real-time strategy">real-time strategy</a> game developed by Tindalos Interactive in collaboration with <a href="Disney" class="mw-redirect" title="Disney">Disney</a>'s <a href="20th_Century_Games" class="mw-redirect" title="20th Century Games">20th Century Games</a> and published by <a href="Focus_Entertainment" title="Focus Entertainment">Focus Entertainment</a> was announced during the <a href="Summer_Game_Fest" title="Summer Game Fest">Summer Game Fest</a> in June 2022<a href="#cite_note-184">[184]</a> and was released on June 20, 2023.<a href="#cite_note-185">[185]</a> The Dark Descent story is set 19 years after the events of the original trilogy films. It received generally positive reviews from critics.

On October 7th, 2024, the 10 year anniversary of the aforementioned Alien: Isolation's release, <a href="Sega" title="Sega">Sega</a> and Creative Assembly announced that a <a href="Sequel" title="Sequel">sequel</a> to Alien: Isolation was in early development.<a href="#cite_note-:0-183">[183]</a>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Merchandising">Merchandising</h3></div>

Despite Alien being widely considered a mature and non child-appropriate series, merchandise - including <a href="Action_figure" title="Action figure">action figures</a>, <a href="Board_game" title="Board game">board games</a> and <a href="Role-playing_game" title="Role-playing game">role-playing games</a> - has been manufactured and marketed to a wide range of age groups. Prior to the release of the first film, 20th Century Fox executives signed a deal with <a href="Kenner_Products" title="Kenner Products">Kenner Products</a>, for the production of a board game called Alien Game, as well as action figures, marketed for being <a href="Family-friendly" title="Family-friendly">family-friendly</a>. Following the release of the film and the outcry from parents about its nature of being a graphic and mature horror film, the product lines were abruptly cancelled.<a href="#cite_note-186">[186]</a> The merchandising efforts for the franchise remained largely stagnant until the release of the more action-based sequel, Aliens, seven years later. From thereon out, merchandise has been produced on a rolling, ongoing basis.<a href="#cite_note-EarlyKenner-187">[187]</a>

From the franchise's inception until Kenner's closure in 2000, the company was a major manufacturer of Alien action figures. From 1992 to 1995, Kenner produced a line of action figures dubbed Aliens, initially intended to promote a cancelled <a href="Animated_series" title="Animated series">animated series</a> called Operation: Aliens.<a href="#cite_note-EarlyKenner-187">[187]</a> In 1996, <a href="Galoob" title="Galoob">Galoob</a> released the Micro Machines Alien line of miniature toys, but ceased production the following year, due in large to the violent and graphic nature of its packaging art.<a href="#cite_note-188">[188]</a> Following the founding of Hong Kong collectible toy company <a href="Hot_Toys" title="Hot Toys">Hot Toys</a>, one of the first lines the company began producing was Alien.<a href="#cite_note-189">[189]</a> In 2014, <a href="Funko" title="Funko">Funko</a> released a line of action figures heavily inspired by the original 1979 Kenner line called ReAction.<a href="#cite_note-190">[190]</a> In the 2010s, the <a href="National_Entertainment_Collectibles_Association" title="National Entertainment Collectibles Association">National Entertainment Collectibles Association</a> (NECA) took a prominent role in the manufacturing of Alien action figures, with the majority being largely inspired by the Kenner line of action figures, as well as new additions depicting the prequel films and crossover continuities, such as Alien vs. Predator and Superman/Aliens.<a href="#cite_note-191">[191]</a><a href="#cite_note-192">[192]</a>

Following Kenner's ill-fated first foray into the board game market with Alien Game, merchandising efforts in the medium were stagnant, until <a href="Leading_Edge_Games" title="Leading Edge Games">Leading Edge Games</a> released the cooperative game Aliens in 1989.<a href="#cite_note-193">[193]</a> <a href="Leading_Edge_Games" title="Leading Edge Games">Leading Edge Games</a> released <a href="Aliens_Adventure_Game" title="Aliens Adventure Game">Aliens Adventure Game</a> in 1991, to mixed reviews and commentary that states it functions closer to a board game than a traditional tabletop RPG.<a href="#cite_note-194">[194]</a><a href="#cite_note-195">[195]</a> In 1993, British toy company <a href="Peter_Pan_Playthings_Ltd" title="Peter Pan Playthings Ltd">Peter Pan Playthings Ltd</a> released a board game called Operation: Aliens — Combat Game, in which up to four players play as Colonial Marines and compete to reach the center of the board and self-destruct the Alien-infested facility.<a href="#cite_note-196">[196]</a> In December 2019, Swedish publisher Free League Publishing released a tabletop role-playing game called Alien: The Role-Playing Game, featuring two game modes.<a href="#cite_note-197">[197]</a> An upcoming licensed board game titled Alien: USCSS Nostromo is set for release in 2020. However, in 2018, a French board game designer named François Bachelart accused the game's publisher, Wonder Dice, of theft of a game concept he pitched to them years prior. Wonder Dice published a press release, in which they threatened to sue anyone who would question their legal practices.<a href="#cite_note-198">[198]</a>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Theme_park_attractions">Theme park attractions</h3></div>

An Alien-themed attraction debuted at the <a href="Genting_SkyWorlds" title="Genting SkyWorlds">Genting SkyWorlds</a> Theme Park in Malaysia in February 2022.<a href="#cite_note-199">[199]</a> The Park, previously known as '20th Century Fox World', has faced significant delays during construction, however, a licensing deal with Fox and new parent company <a href="The_Walt_Disney_Company" title="The Walt Disney Company">The Walt Disney Company</a> was reached. Pre-show footage of the ride was released online, and appears to detail a Weyland-Yutani themed drop tower attraction.<a href="#cite_note-200">[200]</a>

Alien was also previously represented in <a href="The_Great_Movie_Ride" title="The Great Movie Ride">The Great Movie Ride</a> at <a href="Disney's_Hollywood_Studios" title="Disney's Hollywood Studios">Disney's Hollywood Studios</a> at <a href="Walt_Disney_World" title="Walt Disney World">Walt Disney World</a> from 1989 until the attraction's closure in 2017.<a href="#cite_note-201">[201]</a> The attraction featured a scene based on the first film, in which riders were taken through the Nostromo, encountering <a href="Audio-Animatronics" title="Audio-Animatronics">Audio-Animatronic</a> representations of Ripley and a Xenomorph.

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Alien_vs._Predator_franchise">Alien vs. Predator franchise</h2></div>

<div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="Alien_vs._Predator" title="Alien vs. Predator">Alien vs. Predator</a></div>

Inspired by the <a href="Dark_Horse_Comics" title="Dark Horse Comics">Dark Horse Comics</a> series, the filmmakers of <a href="Predator_2" title="Predator 2">Predator 2</a> (1990) incorporated an <a href="Easter_egg_(media)" title="Easter egg (media)">easter egg</a> in which an Alien skull was seen in a Predator trophy case. Expansions upon this <a href="Shared_fictional_universe" class="mw-redirect" title="Shared fictional universe">shared universe</a> between the Alien and <a href="Predator_(franchise)" title="Predator (franchise)">Predator</a> franchises followed through comics and video games, leading up to the launch of a film franchise with the release of <a href="Alien_vs._Predator_(film)" title="Alien vs. Predator (film)">Alien vs. Predator</a> in 2004, followed by <a href="Aliens_vs._Predator%3A_Requiem" title="Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem">Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem</a> in 2007. The franchise has spawned various comics, novels, video games, and other merchandise based upon or inspired by the films. A third film has been variously rumored since the production of Requiem.<a href="#cite_note-Holtreman-24">[24]</a><a href="#cite_note-Fox_Brewing_Alien_vs._Predator_3?-25">[25]</a><a href="#cite_note-slashfilm.com-26">[26]</a> In mid-2018, <a href="Shane_Black" title="Shane Black">Shane Black</a>, the director of <a href="The_Predator_(film)" title="The Predator (film)">The Predator</a>, expressed his belief that a third Alien vs. Predator could still happen, indicating the studio's interest in both franchises, with <a href="Fran%C3%A7oise_Yip" title="Françoise Yip">Françoise Yip</a> then reprising her role as Cullen Yutani from Requiem in a silent <a href="Cameo_appearance" title="Cameo appearance">cameo appearance</a> in The Predator, after her speaking scenes were cut.<a href="#cite_note-avp-27">[27]</a>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="The_Predator_(2018)">The Predator (2018)</h3></div>

<div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="The_Predator_(film)" title="The Predator (film)">The Predator (film)</a></div>

Stuntwoman Breanna Watkins, in scenes that were filmed but not used, portrayed a masked <a href="Ellen_Ripley" title="Ellen Ripley">Ellen Ripley</a> in one <a href="Alternate_ending" title="Alternate ending">alternate ending</a> of <a href="Shane_Black" title="Shane Black">Shane Black</a>'s <a href="The_Predator_(film)" title="The Predator (film)">The Predator</a> (2018), and an unmasked adult Rebecca "Newt" Jorden in a second alternate ending, meant to tie the main <a href="Predator_(franchise)" title="Predator (franchise)">Predator franchise</a> to the Alien franchise in which the characters first appeared, in a manner separate from the pre-existing <a href="Alien_vs._Predator" title="Alien vs. Predator">Alien vs. Predator franchise</a> and incorporating the plot element of <a href="Time_travel_in_fiction" title="Time travel in fiction">time travel</a>; Watkins later elaborated that of the two roles portrayed, while she was serving as a <a href="Stand-in" title="Stand-in">stand-in</a> for Ellen Ripley ahead of a failed attempt at a <a href="Sigourney_Weaver" title="Sigourney Weaver">Sigourney Weaver</a> cameo, that she had actually portrayed Newt Jorden in the original ending, and had been in early discussions about potentially reprising the role in a potential Alien vs. Predator-focused sequel to The Predator.<a href="#cite_note-ripleydeleted-202">[202]</a><a href="#cite_note-newtdeleted-203">[203]</a>

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<ul><li>Alien Woman: The Making of Lt. Ellen Ripley (by Ximena Gallardo C. and C. Jason Smith, Continuum, 272 pages, 2004, <a href="ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <bdi>0-8264-1910-0</bdi>)</li>

<li>The Book of Alien (by Paul Scanlon and <a href="Michael_Gross_(actor)" title="Michael Gross (actor)">Michael Gross</a>, Star Books, 112 pages, 1979, <a href="ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <bdi>0-352-30422-7</bdi>, <a href="Titan_Books" class="mw-redirect" title="Titan Books">Titan Books</a>, 2003, <a href="ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <bdi>1-85286-483-4</bdi>)</li>

<li>Making of Alien Resurrection (by <a href="Andrew_Murdock" title="Andrew Murdock">Andrew Murdock</a> and Rachel Aberly, <a href="Harper_Prism" title="Harper Prism">Harper Prism</a>, 1997 <a href="ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <bdi>0-06-105378-3</bdi>)</li>

<li>The Complete Aliens Companion (by Paul Sammon, <a href="Harper_Prism" title="Harper Prism">Harper Prism</a>, 1998, <a href="ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <bdi>0-06-105385-6</bdi>)</li>

<li>The Alien Quartet: A Bloomsbury Movie Guide (by <a href="David_Thomson_(film_critic)" title="David Thomson (film critic)">David Earl Thomson</a>, Bloomsbury Publishing, 208 pages, 1999, <a href="ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <bdi>1-58234-030-7</bdi>, as The Alien Quartet (Pocket Movie Guide), 2000 <a href="ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <bdi>0-7475-5181-2</bdi>)</li>

<li>Beautiful Monsters: The Unofficial and Unauthorized Guide to the Alien and Predator Films (by <a href="David_A._McIntee" title="David A. McIntee">David A. McIntee</a>, Telos, 272 pages, 2005, <a href="ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <bdi>1-903889-94-4</bdi>)</li>

<li>Alien Vault: The Definitive Story of the Making of The Film (By Ian Nathan) 2011, 176 pages. Includes inserts with sticker, mini posters, art and storyboards, Blueprints and other material. <a href="ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <bdi>9780760341124</bdi></li></ul>

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<ul><li><a href="Alien_(film)" title="Alien (film)">Alien</a> (1979)</li>

<li><a href="Aliens_(film)" title="Aliens (film)">Aliens</a> (1986)</li>

<li><a href="Alien_3" title="Alien 3">Alien 3</a> (1992)</li>

<li><a href="Alien_Resurrection" title="Alien Resurrection">Alien Resurrection</a> (1997)</li>

<li><a href="Prometheus_(2012_film)" title="Prometheus (2012 film)">Prometheus</a> (2012)</li>

<li><a href="Alien%3A_Covenant" title="Alien: Covenant">Alien: Covenant</a> (2017)</li>

<li><a href="Alien%3A_Romulus" title="Alien: Romulus">Alien: Romulus</a> (2024)</li></ul>

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</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">TV series</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Alien%3A_Isolation_%E2%80%93_The_Digital_Series" title="Alien: Isolation – The Digital Series">Alien: Isolation – The Digital Series</a> (2019)</li>

<li><a href="Alien%3A_Earth" title="Alien: Earth">Alien: Earth</a> (2025)

<ul><li>"<a href="Neverland_(Alien%3A_Earth)" title="Neverland (Alien: Earth)">Neverland</a>"</li></ul></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Other media</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Soundtracks</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Alien_(soundtrack)" title="Alien (soundtrack)">Alien</a></li>

<li><a href="Aliens_(soundtrack)" title="Aliens (soundtrack)">Aliens</a></li>

<li><a href="Alien_3_(soundtrack)" title="Alien 3 (soundtrack)">Alien 3</a></li>

<li><a href="Alien_Resurrection_(soundtrack)" title="Alien Resurrection (soundtrack)">Alien Resurrection</a></li>

<li><a href="Prometheus_(soundtrack)" title="Prometheus (soundtrack)">Prometheus</a></li>

<li><a href="Alien%3A_Covenant_(soundtrack)" title="Alien: Covenant (soundtrack)">Alien: Covenant</a></li>

<li><a href="Alien%3A_Romulus_(soundtrack)" title="Alien: Romulus (soundtrack)">Alien: Romulus</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="List_of_Alien_(franchise)_comics" title="List of Alien (franchise) comics">Comics</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Alien%3A_The_Illustrated_Story" title="Alien: The Illustrated Story">Alien: The Illustrated Story</a> (1979)</li></ul>

</div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th id="Dark_Horse_line51" scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Aliens_(Dark_Horse_Comics_line)" title="Aliens (Dark Horse Comics line)">Dark Horse line</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Superman/Aliens" title="Superman/Aliens">Superman/Aliens</a> (1995, 2002)</li>

<li><a href="Batman/Aliens" title="Batman/Aliens">Batman/Aliens</a> (1997, 2002–2003)</li>

<li><a href="WildC.A.T.s/Aliens" title="WildC.A.T.s/Aliens">WildC.A.T.s/Aliens</a> (1998)</li>

<li><a href="Green_Lantern_Versus_Aliens" title="Green Lantern Versus Aliens">Green Lantern Versus Aliens</a> (2000)</li>

<li><a href="Judge_Dredd_versus_Aliens%3A_Incubus" title="Judge Dredd versus Aliens: Incubus">Judge Dredd versus Aliens: Incubus</a> (2002–2003)</li>

<li><a href="Fire_and_Stone" title="Fire and Stone">Fire and Stone</a> (2014–2015)</li></ul>

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</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="List_of_Alien_(franchise)_novels" title="List of Alien (franchise) novels">Novels</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Aliens%3A_Earth_Hive" title="Aliens: Earth Hive">Aliens: Earth Hive</a> (1992)</li>

<li><a href="Aliens%3A_Nightmare_Asylum" class="mw-redirect" title="Aliens: Nightmare Asylum">Aliens: Nightmare Asylum</a> (1993)</li>

<li><a href="Aliens%3A_The_Female_War" class="mw-redirect" title="Aliens: The Female War">Aliens: The Female War</a> (1993)</li>

<li><a href="Alien%3A_Out_of_the_Shadows" title="Alien: Out of the Shadows">Alien: Out of the Shadows</a> (2014)</li>

<li><a href="Aliens%3A_Phalanx" title="Aliens: Phalanx">Aliens: Phalanx</a> (2020)</li>

<li><a href="Alien%3A_Uncivil_War" class="mw-redirect" title="Alien: Uncivil War">Alien: Uncivil War</a> (2024)</li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="List_of_Alien%2C_Predator%2C_and_Alien_vs._Predator_games" title="List of Alien, Predator, and Alien vs. Predator games">Games</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Video</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Alien_(1982_video_game)" title="Alien (1982 video game)">Alien</a> (1982)</li>

<li><a href="Alien_(1984_video_game)" title="Alien (1984 video game)">Alien</a> (1984)</li>

<li><a href="Aliens%3A_The_Computer_Game_(US_Version)" title="Aliens: The Computer Game (US Version)">Aliens: The Computer Game</a> (Activision)</li>

<li><a href="Aliens%3A_The_Computer_Game_(UK_Version)" title="Aliens: The Computer Game (UK Version)">Aliens: The Computer Game</a> (Software Studios)</li>

<li><a href="Aliens_(1990_video_game)" title="Aliens (1990 video game)">Aliens</a> (1990)</li>

<li><a href="Alien_3_(video_game)" title="Alien 3 (video game)">Alien 3</a> (1992)</li>

<li><a href="Alien_3%3A_The_Gun" title="Alien 3: The Gun">Alien 3: The Gun</a> (1993)</li>

<li><a href="Aliens%3A_A_Comic_Book_Adventure" title="Aliens: A Comic Book Adventure">Aliens: A Comic Book Adventure</a> (1995)</li>

<li><a href="Alien_Trilogy" title="Alien Trilogy">Alien Trilogy</a> (1996)</li>

<li><a href="Aliens_Online" title="Aliens Online">Aliens Online</a> (1998)</li>

<li><a href="Alien_Resurrection_(video_game)" title="Alien Resurrection (video game)">Alien Resurrection</a> (2000)</li>

<li><a href="Aliens%3A_Thanatos_Encounter" title="Aliens: Thanatos Encounter">Aliens: Thanatos Encounter</a> (2001)</li>

<li><a href="Aliens_Infestation" title="Aliens Infestation">Aliens Infestation</a> (2011)</li>

<li><a href="Aliens%3A_Colonial_Marines" title="Aliens: Colonial Marines">Aliens: Colonial Marines</a> (2013)</li>

<li><a href="Alien%3A_Isolation" title="Alien: Isolation">Alien: Isolation</a> (2014)</li>

<li><a href="Aliens%3A_Fireteam_Elite" title="Aliens: Fireteam Elite">Aliens: Fireteam Elite</a> (2021)</li>

<li><a href="Aliens%3A_Dark_Descent" title="Aliens: Dark Descent">Aliens: Dark Descent</a> (2023)</li>

<li><a href="Alien%3A_Rogue_Incursion" title="Alien: Rogue Incursion">Alien: Rogue Incursion</a> (2024)</li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Other</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Aliens_the_Board_Game" title="Aliens the Board Game">Aliens the Board Game</a> (1989)</li>

<li><a href="Aliens_Adventure_Game" title="Aliens Adventure Game">Aliens Adventure Game</a> (1991)</li>

<li><a href="Alien%3A_The_Roleplaying_Game" title="Alien: The Roleplaying Game">Alien: The Roleplaying Game</a> (2019)</li></ul>

</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Podcasts</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Alien_3_(podcast)" title="Alien 3 (podcast)">Alien 3</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Universe</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th id="Characters51" scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="List_of_Alien_(franchise)_characters" title="List of Alien (franchise) characters">Characters</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Humans</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Ellen_Ripley" title="Ellen Ripley">Ellen Ripley</a></li>

<li><a href="Dwayne_Hicks" title="Dwayne Hicks">Dwayne Hicks</a></li>

<li><a href="Hudson_(Aliens)" title="Hudson (Aliens)">Hudson</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Androids</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<li><a href="Bishop_(Aliens)" title="Bishop (Aliens)">Bishop</a></li>

<li><a href="David_8" title="David 8">David 8</a></li>

<li><a href="Walter_One" title="Walter One">Walter One</a></li></ul>

<ul><li><a href="Xenomorph" title="Xenomorph">Xenomorph</a></li>

<li><a href="Jones_(fictional_cat)" title="Jones (fictional cat)">Jones</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Other</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="List_of_accolades_received_by_the_Alien_film_series" title="List of accolades received by the Alien film series">Accolades for the film series</a></li>

<li><a href="Alien_War" title="Alien War">Alien War</a></li>

<li><a href="Alien_vs._Predator" title="Alien vs. Predator">Alien vs. Predator franchise</a>

<ul><li><a href="List_of_Alien_vs._Predator_characters" title="List of Alien vs. Predator characters">characters</a></li></ul></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Related</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Ripley_(crater)" title="Ripley (crater)">Ripley (crater)</a></li>

<li><a href="Alien_2%3A_On_Earth" title="Alien 2: On Earth">Alien 2: On Earth</a></li>

<li><a href="Memory%3A_The_Origins_of_Alien" title="Memory: The Origins of Alien">Memory: The Origins of Alien</a></li>

<li><a href="Alien_on_Stage" title="Alien on Stage">Alien on Stage</a></li>

<li><a href="Galaxy_of_Terror" title="Galaxy of Terror">Galaxy of Terror</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2"><div>

<ul><li> Category</li></ul>

</div></td></tr></tbody></table></div>

<div class="navbox-styles"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="Alien_vs._Predator316" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks hlist mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="Alien_vs._Predator316" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="Alien_vs._Predator" title="Alien vs. Predator">Alien vs. Predator</a></div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Films</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Alien_vs._Predator_(film)" title="Alien vs. Predator (film)">Alien vs. Predator</a> (2004)</li>

<li><a href="Aliens_vs._Predator%3A_Requiem" title="Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem">Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem</a> (2007)</li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="List_of_Alien_vs._Predator_characters" title="List of Alien vs. Predator characters">Characters</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Dutch_Schaefer" title="Dutch Schaefer">Dutch Schaefer</a></li>

<li><a href="Xenomorph" title="Xenomorph">Xenomorph (Alien)</a></li>

<li><a href="Predator_(fictional_species)" title="Predator (fictional species)">Yautja (Predator)</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Music</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Alien_vs._Predator_(soundtrack)" title="Alien vs. Predator (soundtrack)">Alien vs. Predator</a></li>

<li><a href="Aliens_vs._Predator%3A_Requiem_(soundtrack)" title="Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem (soundtrack)">Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Comics</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Aliens_vs._Predator_(comics)" title="Aliens vs. Predator (comics)">Aliens versus Predator</a></li>

<li><a href="Aliens/Predator%3A_Deadliest_of_the_Species" title="Aliens/Predator: Deadliest of the Species">Aliens/Predator: Deadliest of the Species</a></li>

<li><a href="Aliens_versus_Predator_versus_The_Terminator" title="Aliens versus Predator versus The Terminator">Aliens versus Predator versus The Terminator</a></li>

<li><a href="Mindhunter_(comic_book)" class="mw-redirect" title="Mindhunter (comic book)">Mindhunter</a></li>

<li><a href="Superman_and_Batman_versus_Aliens_and_Predator" title="Superman and Batman versus Aliens and Predator">Superman and Batman versus Aliens and Predator</a></li>

<li><a href="Alien_vs._Predator%3A_Sand_Trap" title="Alien vs. Predator: Sand Trap">Alien vs. Predator: Sand Trap</a></li>

<li><a href="Fire_and_Stone" title="Fire and Stone">Fire and Stone</a></li></ul>

<ul><li><a href="Aliens_Predator_Customizable_Card_Game" title="Aliens Predator Customizable Card Game">Aliens Predator Customizable Card Game</a></li>

<li><a href="Alien_vs_Predator_(SNES)" title="Alien vs Predator (SNES)">Alien vs Predator</a> (SNES)</li>

<li><a href="Alien_vs._Predator_(arcade_game)" title="Alien vs. Predator (arcade game)">Alien vs. Predator</a> (arcade)</li>

<li><a href="Alien_vs_Predator_(Atari_Jaguar_video_game)" title="Alien vs Predator (Atari Jaguar video game)">Alien vs Predator</a> (Jaguar)</li>

<li><a href="Aliens_Versus_Predator_(1999_video_game)" title="Aliens Versus Predator (1999 video game)">Aliens versus Predator</a> (1999)</li>

<li><a href="Aliens_Versus_Predator_2" title="Aliens Versus Predator 2">Aliens versus Predator 2</a></li>

<li><a href="Aliens_Versus_Predator%3A_Extinction" title="Aliens Versus Predator: Extinction">Aliens versus Predator: Extinction</a></li>

<li><a href="Aliens_vs._Predator%3A_Requiem_(video_game)" title="Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem (video game)">Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem</a></li>

<li><a href="Aliens_vs._Predator_(2010_video_game)" title="Aliens vs. Predator (2010 video game)">Aliens vs. Predator</a> (2010)</li>

<li><a href="AVP%3A_Evolution" title="AVP: Evolution">AVP: Evolution</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Other</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<li><a href="List_of_Alien_vs._Predator_novels" title="List of Alien vs. Predator novels">Novels</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Parodies</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="AVH%3A_Alien_vs._Hunter" title="AVH: Alien vs. Hunter">AVH: Alien vs. Hunter</a></li>

<li><a href="Alien_Loves_Predator" title="Alien Loves Predator">Alien Loves Predator</a></li>

<li><a href="Aliens_vs._Avatars" title="Aliens vs. Avatars">Aliens vs. Avatars</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Related</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Batman%3A_Dead_End" title="Batman: Dead End">Batman: Dead End</a></li>

<li><a href="Predator_(franchise)" title="Predator (franchise)">Predator franchise</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2"><div>

<ul><li> Category</li></ul>

</div></td></tr></tbody></table></div>

<div class="navbox-styles"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="Dan_O&#039;Bannon42" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks hlist mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="Dan_O&#039;Bannon42" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="Dan_O'Bannon" title="Dan O'Bannon">Dan O'Bannon</a></div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Films directed</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="The_Return_of_the_Living_Dead" title="The Return of the Living Dead">The Return of the Living Dead</a> (1985, also written)</li>

<li><a href="The_Resurrected" title="The Resurrected">The Resurrected</a> (1991)</li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Written only</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<li><a href="Alien_(film)" title="Alien (film)">Alien</a> (1979)</li>

<li><a href="Dead_%26_Buried" title="Dead & Buried">Dead & Buried</a> (1981)</li>

<li><a href="Heavy_Metal_(film)" title="Heavy Metal (film)">Heavy Metal</a> (1981)</li>

<li><a href="Blue_Thunder" title="Blue Thunder">Blue Thunder</a> (1983)</li>

<li><a href="Lifeforce_(film)" title="Lifeforce (film)">Lifeforce</a> (1985)</li>

<li><a href="Invaders_from_Mars_(1986_film)" title="Invaders from Mars (1986 film)">Invaders from Mars</a> (1986)</li>

<li><a href="Total_Recall_(1990_film)" title="Total Recall (1990 film)">Total Recall</a> (1990)</li>

<li><a href="Screamers_(1995_film)" title="Screamers (1995 film)">Screamers</a> (1995)</li>

<li><a href="Bleeders_(film)" title="Bleeders (film)">Bleeders</a> (1997)</li>

<li><a href="Alien_vs._Predator_(film)" title="Alien vs. Predator (film)">Alien vs. Predator</a> (2004)</li>

<li><a href="Total_Recall_(2012_film)" title="Total Recall (2012 film)">Total Recall</a> (2012)</li></ul>

</div></td></tr></tbody></table></div>

<div class="navbox-styles"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="Disney_franchises_and_series1309" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks hlist mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="Disney_franchises_and_series1309" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="The_Walt_Disney_Company" title="The Walt Disney Company">Disney</a> franchises and series</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible expanded navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="Walt_Disney_Studios1309" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="Walt_Disney_Studios_(division)" title="Walt Disney Studios (division)">Walt Disney Studios</a></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Walt_Disney_Animation_Studios" title="Walt Disney Animation Studios">Walt Disney Animation Studios</a>×</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="101_Dalmatians_(franchise)" title="101 Dalmatians (franchise)">101 Dalmatians</a></li>

<li><a href="Aladdin_(franchise)" title="Aladdin (franchise)">Aladdin</a></li>

<li><a href="Alice_in_Wonderland_(franchise)" title="Alice in Wonderland (franchise)">Alice in Wonderland</a></li>

<li><a href="Atlantis_(franchise)" title="Atlantis (franchise)">Atlantis</a></li>

<li><a href="Beauty_and_the_Beast_(franchise)" title="Beauty and the Beast (franchise)">Beauty and the Beast</a></li>

<li><a href="Cinderella_(franchise)" title="Cinderella (franchise)">Cinderella</a></li>

<li><a href="Donald_Duck_(film_series)" title="Donald Duck (film series)">Donald Duck</a></li>

<li><a href="The_Emperor's_New_Groove_(franchise)" title="The Emperor's New Groove (franchise)">The Emperor's New Groove</a></li>

<li><a href="Fantasia_(franchise)" title="Fantasia (franchise)">Fantasia</a></li>

<li><a href="Frozen_(franchise)" title="Frozen (franchise)">Frozen</a></li>

<li><a href="Goofy_(film_series)" title="Goofy (film series)">Goofy</a></li>

<li><a href="Hercules_(franchise)" title="Hercules (franchise)">Hercules</a></li>

<li><a href="The_Hunchback_of_Notre_Dame_(franchise)" title="The Hunchback of Notre Dame (franchise)">The Hunchback of Notre Dame</a></li>

<li><a href="The_Jungle_Book_(franchise)" title="The Jungle Book (franchise)">The Jungle Book</a></li>

<li><a href="Lilo_%26_Stitch_(franchise)" title="Lilo & Stitch (franchise)">Lilo & Stitch</a></li>

<li><a href="The_Little_Mermaid_(franchise)" title="The Little Mermaid (franchise)">The Little Mermaid</a></li>

<li><a href="Mickey_Mouse_(film_series)" title="Mickey Mouse (film series)">Mickey Mouse</a></li>

<li><a href="Moana_(franchise)" title="Moana (franchise)">Moana</a></li>

<li><a href="Mulan_(franchise)" title="Mulan (franchise)">Mulan</a></li>

<li><a href="Oswald_the_Lucky_Rabbit_filmography" title="Oswald the Lucky Rabbit filmography">Oswald the Lucky Rabbit</a>⸿</li>

<li><a href="Peter_Pan_(franchise)" title="Peter Pan (franchise)">Peter Pan</a>

<ul><li><a href="Tinker_Bell_(film_series)" title="Tinker Bell (film series)">Tinker Bell</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Pluto_(film_series)" title="Pluto (film series)">Pluto</a></li>

<li><a href="Pocahontas_(franchise)" title="Pocahontas (franchise)">Pocahontas</a></li>

<li><a href="Prep_%26_Landing_(series)" title="Prep & Landing (series)">Prep & Landing</a></li>

<li><a href="Silly_Symphony" title="Silly Symphony">Silly Symphonies</a></li>

<li><a href="Sleeping_Beauty_(franchise)" title="Sleeping Beauty (franchise)">Sleeping Beauty</a>

<ul><li><a href="Maleficent_(film_series)" title="Maleficent (film series)">Maleficent</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Snow_White_(franchise)" title="Snow White (franchise)">Snow White</a></li>

<li><a href="Tangled_(franchise)" title="Tangled (franchise)">Tangled</a></li>

<li><a href="Tarzan_(franchise)" title="Tarzan (franchise)">Tarzan</a></li>

<li><a href="Winnie_the_Pooh_(franchise)" title="Winnie the Pooh (franchise)">Winnie the Pooh</a></li>

<li><a href="Wreck-It_Ralph_(franchise)" title="Wreck-It Ralph (franchise)">Wreck-It Ralph</a></li>

<li><a href="Zootopia_(franchise)" title="Zootopia (franchise)">Zootopia</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Walt_Disney_Pictures" title="Walt Disney Pictures">Walt Disney Pictures</a>†</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<li><a href="Beverly_Hills_Chihuahua_(film_series)" title="Beverly Hills Chihuahua (film series)">Beverly Hills Chihuahua</a></li>

<li><a href="The_Chronicles_of_Narnia_(film_series)" title="The Chronicles of Narnia (film series)">The Chronicles of Narnia</a>¶</li>

<li><a href="Dexter_Riley" title="Dexter Riley">Dexter Riley</a></li>

<li><a href="Father_of_the_Bride_(franchise)" title="Father of the Bride (franchise)">Father of the Bride</a></li>

<li><a href="Flubber_(franchise)" title="Flubber (franchise)">Flubber</a></li>

<li><a href="Freaky_Friday_(franchise)" title="Freaky Friday (franchise)">Freaky Friday</a></li>

<li><a href="Herbie_(franchise)" title="Herbie (franchise)">Herbie</a></li>

<li><a href="Hocus_Pocus_(franchise)" title="Hocus Pocus (franchise)">Hocus Pocus</a></li>

<li><a href="Honey%2C_I_Shrunk_the_Kids_(franchise)" title="Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (franchise)">Honey, I Shrunk the Kids</a></li>

<li><a href="The_Mighty_Ducks" title="The Mighty Ducks">The Mighty Ducks</a></li>

<li><a href="List_of_The_Muppets_productions" title="List of The Muppets productions">The Muppets</a></li>

<li><a href="National_Treasure_(franchise)" title="National Treasure (franchise)">National Treasure</a></li>

<li><a href="The_Parent_Trap_(film_series)" title="The Parent Trap (film series)">The Parent Trap</a></li>

<li><a href="Pirates_of_the_Caribbean_(film_series)" title="Pirates of the Caribbean (film series)">Pirates of the Caribbean</a></li>

<li><a href="The_Santa_Clause_(franchise)" title="The Santa Clause (franchise)">The Santa Clause</a></li>

<li><a href="The_Shaggy_Dog_(franchise)" title="The Shaggy Dog (franchise)">The Shaggy Dog</a></li>

<li><a href="Sister_Act_(franchise)" title="Sister Act (franchise)">Sister Act</a></li>

<li><a href="True-Life_Adventures" title="True-Life Adventures">True-Life Adventures</a></li>

<li><a href="Turner_%26_Hooch_(franchise)" title="Turner & Hooch (franchise)">Turner & Hooch</a></li>

<li><a href="Unbreakable_(film_series)" title="Unbreakable (film series)">Unbreakable</a>⸿</li>

<li><a href="Who_Framed_Roger_Rabbit_(franchise)" title="Who Framed Roger Rabbit (franchise)">Who Framed Roger Rabbit</a></li>

<li><a href="Witch_Mountain_(franchise)" title="Witch Mountain (franchise)">Witch Mountain</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Pixar" title="Pixar">Pixar</a>×</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<li><a href="Finding_Nemo_(franchise)" title="Finding Nemo (franchise)">Finding Nemo</a></li>

<li><a href="The_Incredibles_(franchise)" title="The Incredibles (franchise)">The Incredibles</a></li>

<li><a href="Inside_Out_(franchise)" title="Inside Out (franchise)">Inside Out</a></li>

<li><a href="Monsters%2C_Inc._(franchise)" title="Monsters, Inc. (franchise)">Monsters, Inc.</a></li>

<li><a href="SparkShorts" title="SparkShorts">SparkShorts</a></li>

<li><a href="Toy_Story_(franchise)" title="Toy Story (franchise)">Toy Story</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Marvel_Studios" title="Marvel Studios">Marvel Studios</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Marvel_Cinematic_Universe" title="Marvel Cinematic Universe">Marvel Cinematic Universe</a>

<ul><li><a href="Avengers_(comics)_in_other_media" title="Avengers (comics) in other media">Avengers</a></li>

<li><a href="Captain_America_in_film" title="Captain America in film">Captain America</a></li>

<li><a href="Spider-Man_in_film" title="Spider-Man in film">Spider-Man</a> #</li></ul></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Lucasfilm" title="Lucasfilm">Lucasfilm</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Indiana_Jones" title="Indiana Jones">Indiana Jones</a>§</li>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="20th_Century_Studios" title="20th Century Studios">20th Century Studios</a>‡</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Alien_Nation" title="Alien Nation">Alien Nation</a></li>

<li><a href="Alien_vs._Predator" title="Alien vs. Predator">Alien vs. Predator</a>

<li><a href="Predator_(franchise)" title="Predator (franchise)">Predator</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Alvin_and_the_Chipmunks_in_film" title="Alvin and the Chipmunks in film">Alvin and the Chipmunks</a></li>

<li><a href="Avatar_(franchise)" title="Avatar (franchise)">Avatar</a></li>

<li><a href="Behind_Enemy_Lines_(film_series)" title="Behind Enemy Lines (film series)">Behind Enemy Lines</a></li>

<li><a href="Cheaper_by_the_Dozen_(franchise)" title="Cheaper by the Dozen (franchise)">Cheaper by the Dozen</a>§</li>

<li><a href="Diary_of_a_Wimpy_Kid_(film_series)" title="Diary of a Wimpy Kid (film series)">Diary of a Wimpy Kid</a>§</li>

<li><a href="Dr._Dolittle_(franchise)" title="Dr. Dolittle (franchise)">Dr. Dolittle</a></li>

<li><a href="Fantastic_Four_in_film" title="Fantastic Four in film">Fantastic Four</a>⌀</li>

<li><a href="Hercule_Poirot_(film_series)" title="Hercule Poirot (film series)">Hercule Poirot</a></li>

<li><a href="The_Hills_Have_Eyes" title="The Hills Have Eyes">The Hills Have Eyes</a></li>

<li><a href="Home_Alone_(franchise)" title="Home Alone (franchise)">Home Alone</a></li>

<li><a href="Independence_Day_(franchise)" title="Independence Day (franchise)">Independence Day</a></li>

<li><a href="Kingsman_(franchise)" title="Kingsman (franchise)">Kingsman</a></li>

<li><a href="Maze_Runner_(film_series)" title="Maze Runner (film series)">Maze Runner</a></li>

<li><a href="Night_at_the_Museum_(franchise)" title="Night at the Museum (franchise)">Night at the Museum</a>§</li>

<li><a href="Percy_Jackson_(film_series)" title="Percy Jackson (film series)">Percy Jackson</a></li>

<li><a href="Planet_of_the_Apes" title="Planet of the Apes">Planet of the Apes</a></li>

<li><a href="Revenge_of_the_Nerds_(film_series)" title="Revenge of the Nerds (film series)">Revenge of the Nerds</a></li>

<li><a href="The_Rocky_Horror_Show_(franchise)" title="The Rocky Horror Show (franchise)">The Rocky Horror Show</a></li>

<li><a href="The_Sandlot_(franchise)" title="The Sandlot (franchise)">The Sandlot</a></li>

<li><a href="Taken_(franchise)" title="Taken (franchise)">Taken</a></li>

<li><a href="Wrong_Turn_(film_series)" title="Wrong Turn (film series)">Wrong Turn</a></li>

<li><a href="World_of_Watches" title="World of Watches">World of Watches</a></li>

</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible expanded navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="Disney_General_Entertainment_Content1309" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="Disney_General_Entertainment_Content" class="mw-redirect" title="Disney General Entertainment Content">Disney General Entertainment Content</a></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th id="Disney_Channel44" scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Disney_Channel" title="Disney Channel">Disney Channel</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="As_the_Bell_Rings" title="As the Bell Rings">As the Bell Rings</a></li>

<li><a href="The_Cheetah_Girls_(franchise)" title="The Cheetah Girls (franchise)">The Cheetah Girls</a></li>

<li><a href="Descendants_(franchise)" title="Descendants (franchise)">Descendants</a></li>

<li><a href="Halloweentown_(film_series)" title="Halloweentown (film series)">Halloweentown</a></li>

<li><a href="High_School_Musical_(franchise)" title="High School Musical (franchise)">High School Musical</a>§</li>

<li><a href="Zombies_(franchise)" title="Zombies (franchise)">Zombies</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="20th_Television" title="20th Television">20th Television</a>$</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<li><a href="American_Story" title="American Story">American Story</a></li>

<li><a href="Buffyverse" title="Buffyverse">Buffyverse</a></li>

<li><a href="Family_Guy_(franchise)" title="Family Guy (franchise)">Family Guy</a></li>

<li><a href="Firefly_(franchise)" title="Firefly (franchise)">Firefly</a></li>

<li><a href="The_Simpsons_(franchise)" title="The Simpsons (franchise)">The Simpsons</a></li>

<li><a href="The_X-Files_(franchise)" title="The X-Files (franchise)">The X-Files</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Others</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<li><a href="Spider-Man_in_television" title="Spider-Man in television">Spider-Man in television</a></li>

<li><a href="X-Men_in_television" title="X-Men in television">X-Men in television</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible expanded navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="Disney_Experiences1309" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="Disney_Experiences" title="Disney Experiences">Disney Experiences</a></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Disney_Consumer_Products" title="Disney Consumer Products">Disney Consumer Products</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Disney_Fairies" title="Disney Fairies">Disney Fairies</a></li>

<li><a href="Disney_Princess" title="Disney Princess">Disney Princess</a></li>

<li><a href="Disney_Tsum_Tsum" title="Disney Tsum Tsum">Disney Tsum Tsum</a></li>

<li><a href="List_of_Disney_villain_characters" title="List of Disney villain characters">Disney Villains</a></li>

<li><a href="Mickey_Mouse_universe" title="Mickey Mouse universe">Mickey Mouse & Friends</a>

<ul><li><a href="Donald_Duck_universe" title="Donald Duck universe">Donald Duck</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="The_Muppets" title="The Muppets">The Muppets</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Disney_Publishing_Worldwide" title="Disney Publishing Worldwide">Disney Publishing Worldwide</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="A_Twisted_Tale" title="A Twisted Tale">A Twisted Tale</a></li>

<li><a href="Kingdom_Keepers" title="Kingdom Keepers">Kingdom Keepers</a></li>

<li><a href="Marvel_Universe" title="Marvel Universe">Marvel Universe</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Disney_Interactive" title="Disney Interactive">Disney Games</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Marvel_Games" title="Marvel Games">Marvel Games</a>

<li><a href="Marvel_vs._Capcom" title="Marvel vs. Capcom">Marvel vs. Capcom</a>!</li>

<li><a href="List_of_video_games_featuring_the_Punisher" title="List of video games featuring the Punisher">Punisher</a></li>

<li><a href="Questprobe" title="Questprobe">Questprobe</a></li>

<li><a href="List_of_video_games_featuring_Spider-Man" title="List of video games featuring Spider-Man">Spider-Man</a>

<ul><li><a href="Marvel's_Spider-Man" title="Marvel's Spider-Man">Marvel's Spider-Man</a>#</li></ul></li>

<li><a href="List_of_Pirates_of_the_Caribbean_video_games" title="List of Pirates of the Caribbean video games">Pirates of the Caribbean video games</a></li>

<li><a href="List_of_The_Simpsons_video_games" title="List of The Simpsons video games">The Simpsons video games</a></li>

<li><a href="Star_Wars_video_games" title="Star Wars video games">Star Wars video games</a>

<ul><li><a href="Star_Wars%3A_Battlefront" title="Star Wars: Battlefront">Battlefront</a></li>

<li><a href="Star_Wars%3A_Knights_of_the_Old_Republic" title="Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic">Knights of the Old Republic</a></li>

<li><a href="Star_Wars%3A_Rogue_Squadron_(series)" title="Star Wars: Rogue Squadron (series)">Rogue Squadron</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Club_Penguin_(franchise)" title="Club Penguin (franchise)">Club Penguin</a></li>

<li><a href="Disney_Infinity" title="Disney Infinity">Disney Infinity</a></li>

<li><a href="Disney's_Activity_Center" title="Disney's Activity Center">Disney's Activity Center</a></li>

<li><a href="Disney's_Animated_Storybook" title="Disney's Animated Storybook">Disney's Animated Storybook</a></li>

<li><a href="Disney's_Magical_Quest" title="Disney's Magical Quest">Disney's Magical Quest</a></li>

<li><a href="Disney's_Print_Studio" title="Disney's Print Studio">Disney's Print Studio</a></li>

<li><a href="Illusion_(video_game_series)" title="Illusion (video game series)">Illusion</a></li>

<li><a href="The_Incredible_Machine" title="The Incredible Machine">The Incredible Machine</a></li>

<li><a href="Kim_Possible_(video_game_series)" title="Kim Possible (video game series)">Kim Possible</a></li>

<li><a href="Kingdom_Hearts" title="Kingdom Hearts">Kingdom Hearts</a>◈</li>

<li><a href="Monkey_Island" title="Monkey Island">Monkey Island</a></li>

<li><a href="Spectrobes" title="Spectrobes">Spectrobes</a></li></ul>

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<ul><li>× Franchises also include productions under other studios</li>

<li>† Includes <a href="Touchstone_Pictures" title="Touchstone Pictures">Touchstone Pictures</a> and <a href="Hollywood_Pictures" title="Hollywood Pictures">Hollywood Pictures</a></li>

<li>‡ Includes <a href="Searchlight_Pictures" title="Searchlight Pictures">Searchlight Pictures</a>, <a href="20th_Century_Animation" title="20th Century Animation">20th Century Animation</a>, and related assets</li>

<li>$ Includes <a href="FX_Networks" title="FX Networks">FX Networks</a>, <a href="20th_Television_Animation" title="20th Television Animation">20th Television Animation</a>, and related assets</li>

<li>§ Includes productions under Walt Disney Pictures</li>

<li>¶ Includes productions under 20th Century Studios</li>

<li>⌀ Includes productions under Marvel Studios</li>

<li>⸿ Shared with <a href="Universal_Pictures" title="Universal Pictures">Universal Pictures</a></li>

<li># Shared with <a href="Sony_Pictures" title="Sony Pictures">Sony Pictures</a>; <a href="Sony_Interactive_Entertainment" title="Sony Interactive Entertainment">Sony Interactive Entertainment</a></li>

<li>⁋ Shared with <a href="Lionsgate_Studios" title="Lionsgate Studios">Lionsgate</a></li>

<li>◈ Shared with <a href="Square_Enix" title="Square Enix">Square Enix</a></li>

<li>! Shared with <a href="Capcom" title="Capcom">Capcom</a></li></ul>

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