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) game spin-offs. The "Alien vs. Predator" franchise combines the continuities of the "Alien" franchise with the "Predator" franchise, and consists of two films as well as varying series of comics, books and video games. A video game called "" was released in 2014 to generally positive reviews. After completion of the film "Dark Star" (1974), writer Dan O'Bannon wanted to develop some of the ideas (especially "alien hunts crew through a spaceship") and create a science-fiction action film. Provisionally called "Memory", screenwriter Ronald Shusett collaborated with O'Bannon on the project, adding elements from a previous O'Bannon script, "Gremlins", which featured