Copy link Copied Copy link Copied Subscribe to gift this article Gift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Already a subscriber? Login Ridley Scott’s Alien of 1979, was a groundbreaking – or rather space-breaking – sci-fi horror flick that made an indelible mark on cinema history. It was seven years before a sequel arrived, partly because science fiction writer A.
E. van Vogt claimed the filmmakers had ripped off his novel, The Voyage of the Space Beagle (1950). A lawsuit was settled out of court, and James Cameron would write and direct Aliens (1986), which was almost as well received as the original film.
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