Anybody care about the 'Alien' franchise? It had a movie in the 70s, 80s, 90s[x2], two shitty spin-offs in the 2000s, and two more prequels in the 2010s. The Prometheus movies didn't do much for some people. Kind of hit or miss. I thought Prometheus was an interesting, albeit barely relevant backstory to the first Alien movie, but in a sense, that's what I liked about it. It featured the mechanics of an Alien movie, without the xenomorphs themselves. Alien Covenant had a few 'memberberry moments, but it had some ultra-predictable twists that wont impress you at all.

To most people, the xenomorphs ARE the Alien series. I suppose that's mostly true, but I think the technology and dystopian setting can provide for a lot of interesting ideas, and it's only taken the producers 40 goddamn years to figure this out. Androids? Space ships? Intergalactic travel? Terraforming?

Now, there's talk about a tv show and some form of interactive companion piece to that. My mind jumps to some Bandersnatch scenario, if not just another video game.

I think Alien can work as a series, even if it isn't all about the xenomorphs. Sure, they can appear in a few episodes, but even without them, there's some good sci-fi shit they can exploit, and us old school sci-fi/horror fantasy nerds will eat that shit up.

Thoughts on the ALIEN franchise? Would you watch a tv show? Or is this a cash-grab, doomed to fail?