The past and future of the franchise
The latest installment of Ridley Scott’s space-horror franchise, Alien: Covenant, hits theaters today. The series is coming up on its 40th anniversary, and over the course of its lifetime, it’s taken some interesting turns — and some downright unfortunate ones. The franchise is already in a strange place, with the latest films sitting somewhere between prequels and sequels. And as with any long-running franchise, numerous entries can led to a complicated timeline.
And the actual Prometheus mission to find the Engineers takes place in 2093. Alien: Covenant takes place more than a decade after Prometheus, in 2104. A recent prologue links the events of the two films and fills in some of the gap, but not all of it. From there, we get into the original films: Alien takes place two decades after Covenant in 2122, while Ripley wakes up from stasis 57 years later in Aliens. Alien 3 is set immediately after Aliens.
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