After nearly a decade, Ridley Scott is returning to the Alien franchise with a contemporary take. The Academy Award honoree recently revealed that he’s “rewriting the next Alien film,” which will serve as a long-awaited conclusion to his prequel trilogy that also includes Prometheus (2012) and Alien: Covenant (2017),

A rep for Ridley Scott is addressing rumors that the director blames Paul Mescal for Gladiator II underperforming at the box office.