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
Amanda and the Alien seemingly easy task, as the alien must change host bodies every few days. It is based upon the short story of the same name written by Robert Silverberg. The "New York Daily News" criticized Eggert's acting and wrote that the film "wastes so much time deciding whether it wants to steal from 'Life-force,' 'Starman,' 'Species' or 'Earth Girls Are Easy' that it goes nowhere fast." Amanda and the Alien Amanda and the Alien (or Alien Love in the UK) is a 1995 made-for-cable science-fiction comedy movie directed by Jon Kroll and starring Nicole Eggert as Amanda Patterson. It premiered on