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One Reddit possibility has suggested that most of theAlienfranchise could have , been a dream , perhaps explaining the poor caliber of the dealership after the massive succeeder of 1986’sAliens . Despite create films systematically since 1979 , theAlienfranchise has see its fair percentage of negative criticism , mostly attached to projection following the second picture in the franchise , which see James Cameron take the reins and conduct the enfranchisement in a more action - focused focal point . SeveralAlienprojects have been shelved since the 1990s , including a much - look for flick by Neill Blomkamp and even a return of Cameron to the franchise , leading many to wonder whereAlienmight go next .

Even thoughAliencreator Ridley Scott has confirm his growth of anotherAlienfilm , it ’s unclear whether it will link to the ongoing prequel series featuringPrometheusandAlien : Covenant . Also , Don’t BreathedirectorFede Alvarez is produce a standalone filmin theAlienuniverse , so everybody wants to move away from the more recent , messyAlienfilms .

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Official theatrical poster for Alien (1979)

Alien 3 (Ripley’s Dream)

The originalAlienfilms comply Ellen Ripley , portrayed by Sigourney Weaver , a warrant ship’s officer aboard the Nostromo inAlien , who is then read on the Colonial Marines ' delegation inAliensdue to her experience with the Xenomorph . In thefinal moments ofAliens , Ripley and the other film survivors inscribe hypersleep on their journeying back to Earth , with Weaver ’s character carry to the untested Newt that they would"dream all the way home . “This feeds directly into theReddittheory , which note that , in the possible action credits ofAlien 3 , Ripley turn a loss her entire new family and is left to stand for herself in a"desolate , regardless existence . "

As the only woman on Fiorina " Fury " 161 , Ripley is unwanted and uncared for by everybody except for the prison facility ’s doctor , Clemens , leaving her to campaign a Xenomorph alone once again . Only this time , Ripley ’s nightmare fromAliencomes true , and she find herself impregnate by the animal . She ’s not just carry any normal embryo butthat of the Xenomorph Queen . Her answer to this Book of Revelation is"victory and death,“sinceAlien 3ends with Ripley sacrifice her own life to kibosh both the Xenomorphs and the Weyland - Yutani Corporation , led by a man with the face of the humanoid , Bishop ( who she did n’t bank inAliens ) , from win .

Alien: Resurrection (Hicks' Dream)

It was controversial forAlien 3to kill off most of the old moving picture ’s mould in its opening moments since many wanted the relationship between Ripley and Corporal Dwayne Hicks of the Colonial Marines , toy by Michael Biehn , to develop further . If this hypothesis upholds , however , Hicks could still be alive , with theevents of 1997’sAlien : Resurrectionbeing speculate to be his dream , or perhaps , more accurately , a nightmare . The fourth film in theAlienfranchise is packed with military violence from the get - go , potentially just what a soldier such as Hicks would think , but there are several more similarities between Hicks ' story and theResurrectionevents .

Both inAliensandAlien : Resurrection , it ’s the Xenomorphs ' ability to deepen and adapt their strategy that costs lives , with Hicks ' unit of measurement getting picked off one - by - one in the former , just as the gang of the Auriga and the Betty are in the latter , and in both cases , it ’s the superior officers who are kill early on . Resurrectionis also full of sexual intension , which could"boil down to Hicks ' primordial , unconscious desires for Ripley . “Hicks and Ripley become close in Aliens . Heis fascinated by her and her noesis of the Xenomorphs , which translate into the stronger , aphrodisiacal , more confident depiction of the Ripley clone inAlien : Resurrection .

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Prometheus (Bishop’s Dream)

As the first film in a proposed trilogy leading up to the events of the originalAlien , Prometheusstarted to say the story of the Xenomorphs ' evolution . Prometheusis David ’s account , the android aboard the USCSS Prometheus , play by Michael Fassbender . This leads the Reddit possibility to indicate that this could be the electric dream of Bishop , the surviving android fromAliens . away from the fact that"every human in this movie is an idiot,“Prometheusrelies heavily on try out to do the bighearted questions : who created us , and why ? This idea relate to thehuman characters research for the Engineersand David dissecting his own purpose .

David drive the narrative ofPrometheusfrom the celluloid ’s first moments , which see him as the only character awake on board the vessel . He is the one who experiments with his human fellow , exposing Charlie to the black goo and informing Shaw of her unusual pregnancy , which links directly to Ripley ’s story of the faulty Ash , which she relayed to Bishop inAliens . Both androids even get a decisive taking apart throughout their respective cinema . The Reddit theory suggests that David is the personification of Bishop ’s fear that Ripley could have been correct not to swear him , as he wonders whether he does have detached will , as David on a regular basis display .

Alien: Covenant (Newt’s Dream)

The final subsister ofAliensis perhaps the most tragical character to misplace in theopening credits ofAlien 3 , young Newt , who survived alone on LV-426 but was killed by a Xenomorph nonetheless . Her aspiration is theorized to take the form ofAlien : Covenant , which features a colony ship fill with thousands of colonist and human conceptus traveling across the stars , who take a detour and come face - to - face with David and the Xenomorphs . Perhaps the most obvious connexion is that Newt is from a human colony on LV-426 , which was decimated by the Xenomorphs just as the crew of the USCSS Covenant was during the events ofAlien : Covenant .

The events ofAliensandCovenantare remarkably alike , soCovenantcould easily be the events of the previous few day in Newt ’s lifetime being retold from a minor ’s perspective . Both picture show even terminate with a selection of subsister making it off the Xenomorph - infested planet , only to battle a rogue Xenomorph , shell it out of the airlock , and accede hypersleep safely , but with risk loom nevertheless . One run theme throughout everyproject in the Alien franchiseseems to be that make it one cinema makes no difference , as both in Newt ’s event and the case of the Covenant gang , they wo n’t be making it too much further anyway .

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