Alien: Earth just dropped a chest-burstingly good episode ahead of next week’s finale ( read io9’s recap here ), but fans are just as eager to learn what’s next for the sci-fi series on the big screen. One who would know is Fede Álvarez , who helmed last year’s Alien: Romulus and is closely involved in its sequel. He’s not directing it , but he’s helping choose who does—and he co-wrote the script with a bit of important Alien history in mind.

While some fans ( ahem ) think Alien 3 is actually pretty entertaining, it is a universally acknowledged truth that the 1992 David Fincher-directed release does two characters from 1986’s Aliens extremely dirty.

After Ripley (Sigourney Weaver), her sorta romantic interest Hicks (Michael Biehn), her sorta adopted daughter Newt (Carri

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