Ridley Scott is one of the all-time great sci-fi directors, but he also has a strange habit of passing sequels off to other filmmakers. He revolutionized the sci-fi genre with Alien, before James Cameron came along and made an equally beloved (albeit more action-packed) sequel in Aliens. Even if he did then return for Prometheus some years later, the magic in the franchise was gone. But in 1982, Scott dropped a certified sci-fi masterpiece, which received a legacy sequel in 2017 (again, produced by a different director). Now that series is getting yet another sequel, with yet another new creative at the helm, and it’s less than a month away from releasing on streaming.

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