A colony ship answers a mysterious voice from a paradise planet, and paradise has other plans.
Ridley Scott wanted his monsters to look less like machines and more like living things. Which famous animal attraction did the crew consult?
The San Diego Zoo Scott wanted an organic feel instead of the metal-and-bone look H.R. Giger gave the creatures in the original films, so a zoo expert helped shape how they moved and looked.
Early on, the director planned to leave something shocking out of this Alien movie. What was it?
The alien itself Scott wanted the android David to be the new alien lifeform, but fan feedback on Prometheus convinced him to bring the classic xenomorph back.
The villainous android loves to show off his culture, but he flubs a famous poem in a surprisingly basic way. How?
He names the wrong poet David credits Lord Byron with Percy Bysshe Shelley's "Ozymandias," and his newer, friendlier copy Walter uses the slip as proof that David's view of humanity is built on mistakes.
In the final scene, the android quietly coughs up something terrifying to carry aboard the sleeping colony ship. What is it?
Facehugger embryos With the crew frozen in sleep, David now has thousands of colonists to use in his monster experiments.
When the film opened in China, censors cut a scene where Michael Fassbender kisses someone very unexpected. Who?
Himself Fassbender plays both androids, David and Walter, and Chinese audiences got a shorter version with that kiss and most of the alien scenes removed.
