The Alien franchise may be returning to the narrative threads established over a decade ago. Ridley Scott, the visionary director who launched the series with his 1979 masterpiece, has confirmed that a new project is in development to potentially conclude his prequel trilogy.

Despite recent calamitous examples to the contrary, a subtle sign that the cosmos might be healing arrived in a recent Los Angeles Times interview with director Ridley Scott, who told the paper that a...

About 30 pages in, Scott had a problem — just not the one a reader might expect