After nearly a decade, Ridley Scott is returning to the Alien franchise with a contemporary take. The Academy Award honoree recently revealed that he’s “rewriting the next Alien film,” which will serve as a long-awaited conclusion to his prequel trilogy that also includes Prometheus (2012) and Alien: Covenant (2017),

When Ridley Scott signed on to direct "The Dog Stars," a movie that's romantic but not sentimental, dark but hopeful, and frightening but funny, he knew that calibrating the film's varied tones would ...