Like the "Star Wars" saga, the "Alien" franchise is something of a chronological Rubik's Cube, in that the movies coming out now predate the movies from the 1970s and 1980s on the fictional timeline.

David (Michael Fassbender) was easily the most interesting character in Prometheusand its sequel, Alien: Covenant, even though his grand plan was a failure from the start. Ridley Scott returned to the ...