While Prometheusfailed to launch the Alien franchise in a new direction, the movie likely would have had a longer legacy had it lost its Alien connections. Following the failure of Alien: Resurrection ...

Ridley Scott made his own sequel to Prometheus, but last year’s Alien: Romulus serves as a much more faithful and satisfying sequel than Scott’s own Alien: Covenant. Prometheus marked Scott’s ...

“Prometheus” is an origin story. It offers a striking suggestion of how the human race might have come into being. But far more important, it hints at how the titular character of “Alien” was born.

One of the most baffling moments in Prometheus occurs when the last surviving Engineer is awakened from stasis by David (Michael Fassbender) and Peter Weyland (Guy Pearce). The entire mission of the ...