Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Thanks to the success of Alien: Romulus and Alien: Earth, the Alien franchise is hotter than ever before, burning through the competition like acid burning through the hull. This has ...

Ever since the original Alien film premiered in 1979, fans haven't been able to get enough of its sometimes horrifying science-fictional universe. Seven films have been released in total, and the most recent installment, Alien: Romulus unsurprisingly left ...

The arrival of FX’s new sci-fi series Alien: Earth, created by Noah Hawley, has provided an answer to one of the biggest questions fans ask whenever a new Alien project arrives — where does it fit into the franchise’s sprawling timeline? The answer ...

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The timeline of the Alien franchise is a bit confusing, and even contradictory. So where does Noah Hawley’s Alien: Earth series fit in? The timeline of the Alien film franchise is, to put it mildly, a bit wild. And a lot of it is contradictory.