Long before he explored the world of the Roman Empire or chronicled the unbelievable true story of J. Paul Getty’s grandson’s kidnapping, Ridley Scott made arguably his biggest splash onscreen with 1979’s Alien. Based on a story concept by Dan O’Bannon and Ronald Shusett, the sci-fi horror film focuses on the crew of the Nostromo, seven people aboard a commercial spaceship who are awakened from cryosleep to investigate a distress call in the middle of nowhere. The group subsequently discover alien eggs, leading to the birth of the deadly xenomorph, which hunts them down one by one aboard the ship.
