Alien Preqel Series Update PLUS Alien Romulus Update!

The Alien Prequel series has just gotten a major update, as has the Alien Romulus movie coming out soon! Does all of this mean that the Alien franchise could be back and relevant again?

At its core, the Alien franchise is easy to understand: people meet aliens, bad things happen. It’s a lot harder to keep track of when exactly these things occur.

Alien takes place in 2122, Aliens 57 years later, and then Alien 3 happens shortly afterwards. But then things get weird. Alien Resurrection jumps ahead 202 years, Prometheus begins sometime in prehistory and then in 2093, and Alien: Covenant is in 2104. Alien: Romulus will squeeze in between the first two movies, around 2142, which is 20 years after the original. And that’s not even going through the Alien vs Predator flicks or the countless games, books, and comics.

Then there’s the new Alien TV series coming from creator Noah Hawley, best known for the Fargo show and Legion. Deadline has confirmed the movie takes place about 30 years before the events of Alien, or as FX chief John Landgraf put it to THR, “near the end of this century we’re currently in — 70-odd years from now.” That would put the new series in the 2090s. Interestingly, Deadline also claims the show is set a “few years before” Prometheus, which would put the show in somewhere the late 2080s and early 2090s. It remains to be seen whether the series will foreshadow any of the controversial lore and events of Prometheus, especially considering the show’s subject matter.

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