Alien (franchise) "everything wrong" with his script. On its way back to Earth, the U.S. commercial spaceship "Nostromo" is diverted to a desolate planetoid by a cryptic signal from a derelict alien spacecraft. While exploring the alien ship, one of the "Nostromo"s crewmen discovers the remains of the ship's pilot and also a large chamber that contains thousands of egg-like objects. One of the eggs releases a creature that attaches itself to his face and renders him unconscious. The others break quarantine to bring him back aboard the ship. The parasite dies and the crewman wakes up, seemingly fine. Soon afterwards, an
Alien (franchise) several ancient Earth cultures. Seeking the origins of humanity, they journey aboard the spaceship "Prometheus" and arrive on a distant world in the Zeta Reticuli system, the same region of space in which the planetoid from "Alien" is found. There they discover the remains of an advanced civilization (the same race as the dead pilot from the derelict ship in "Alien"), who were developing biological weapons which could have driven the human race extinct. Development of a fifth film in the series began in the early 2000s when both Ridley Scott and James Cameron started to develop ideas for a