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),

After a plague wipes out most of humanity, Jacob Elordi’s mechanic and Josh Brolin’s ex-Marine debate their different visions of survival in the director’s newest sci-fi story.

It would see the return of Fassbender’s David, the murderous android who may or may not have started the ball rolling towards the horrors that eventually became the xenomorphs with his genetic tinkeri...