A new "Alien" film was announced last year, but this time it's not a prequel: Fede Alvarez, director of 2013's "Evil Dead" and the 2016 horror film "Don't Breathe," will helm the film, with Ridley Scott, director of the original "Alien," executive producing. The film is being produced for Hulu, but not much more is known about it until now.

As announced by The Hollywood Reporter (opens in new tab), this fifth Alien film, minus the prequels and crossovers, will begin shooting in Budapest on March 9. Instead of pulling Ellen Ripley back in, it will apparently be a stand-alone film from the previous films, focusing on a group of young people stuck in a colony on a distant world. Presumably, at least one xenomorph will make an appearance. Alvarez co-wrote the script with Rodo Sayagues, who worked with him on the previous two films. [starring Kylie Spaeny in Pacific Rim Uprising and The Craft: David Jonson in Industry, Archie Renault in Shadow and Bone, Spike Fearne in Tell Me Everything, Eileen Wu in The Closing Door and Isabella Merced, who played Dora the Explorer in the live-action film "Dora and the Lost Gold Country."

Meanwhile, a TV show based on "Alien" is also in production under "Fargo" series showrunner Noah Hawley. That, too, will not continue Ripley's story, but will be a prequel set on Earth near the end of the 21st century. (The original "Alien" is set in 2122, most of the first prequel film "Prometheus" is set in 2093, and the second "Alien: Covenant" is set in 2104.)

In 2015, it was revealed that Neill Blomkamp, director of "District 9" and a fan of "Alien: Isolation," was planning an "Alien" movie set after "Alien" that ignored the events of "Alien 3." Unfortunately, Fox did not approve the project and it never reached the script stage.

On the video game front, "Aliens: Dark Descent" is scheduled for release in 2023, a top-down real-time squad shooter by Tindalos Interactive, developer of Battlefleet Gothic Armada 2 and is similar to "Alien Swarm" minus the co-op.

There is also a single-player Unreal Engine 5 action-horror game, Alien, set between the first two games. This one is being developed by Survios, the company behind The Walking Dead Onslaught and Creed: Rise to Glory, and is available in VR and flat It appears to be playable in VR and on flat screens. No release date has yet been announced.