Ridley Scott actually shot a roughly two-minute scene for Alien (later incorporated into the Director's Cut in truncated form) in which, during the climax aboard the Nostromo, Ripley discovers a dead ...

In space, no one can hear you scream, but they can sure hear you scratching your head as you try to make sense of the sprawling “Alien” universe. While Ridley Scott’s 1979 haunted-house-in-the-cosmos ...