I don't believe Ridley Scott is done with the Alien movie franchise, no matter what he says. The English director launched the franchise in 1979 with the groundbreaking sci-fi horror film Alien, which established a new standard for the genre. Though the movie became a cultural touchstone, Scott did not return to direct the immediate sequels, leaving Aliens (1986), Alien 3 (1992), and Alien: Resurrection (1997) to other filmmakers. Decades later, he revisited the franchise by directing the prequels Prometheus (2012) and Alien: Covenant (2017), exploring the origin of the iconic Xenomorph and deepening the franchise's mythology.