News Jordan Peele's Nope Is What The Alien Sequels Should Have Been

[Screenrant]

Jordan Peele’s brilliant new horror Nope delivered on themes that Ridley Scott’s Alien sequels missed. Perhaps the true antagonist of the Alien saga is the Weyland-Yutani corporation, owner of the Nostromo mining ship, and a malevolent force throughout the franchise. Over the course of the 1990s Alien films, Weyland-Yutani repeatedly puts human lives in danger in order to collect and study the Xenomorphs, with an eye to converting them into lucrative biological weapons. The folly of trying to harness these incredibly dangerous creatures for profit is a recurrent theme throughout the franchise and something that Peele's movie Nope also addresses.

Continue reading from original source Screenrant...