The silence of space is about to be shattered by a scream that hasn’t been heard in decades. Alien 4: Prototype takes us back to the cold, industrial ruins of the Weyland-Yutani shadow colonies.

While the world thought the Xenomorph threat died with Ellen Ripley on Fiorina 161, a secret military faction has been harvesting scorched DNA to create something far more perfect — and far more lethal.

Sigourney Weaver returns in a haunting, ethereal role as a digital consciousness reborn, but it is Florence Pugh who takes the lead as Raines, a rogue mercenary with a survival instinct that rivals Ripley herself. Dressed in high-tech, weathered tactical gear, Pugh brings a raw, magnetic energy to the screen, turning every dark corridor into a hunting ground where she is both the prey and the ultimate predator.

The Xenomorph has evolved. No longer just a mindless killing machine, the new “Prototype” is faster, camouflaged, and possesses an unsettling, near-human intelligence. As the containment facility fails, Raines must team up with a mysterious, decommissioned synthetic (Michael Fassbender) and a young tech-scavenger (Jenna Ortega) to burn the nightmare out of existence before it reaches the core worlds.