44 Years Later, Ridley Scott’s Landmark Sci-Fi Classic Is Unstoppable on Streaming

On the one hand, Ridley Scott had to contend with the inevitable defeat of The Martian at the hands of the recent blockbuster Project Hail Mary. On the other, he proved that he remains in a league of his own, especially as far as the sci-fi genre is concerned, with the continued success of his 1982 classic on streaming. Scott broke out with the acclaimed sci-fi horror film Alien, and followed it up with a sci-fi noir film starring Harrison Ford. The second film recently witnessed a viewership spike along with a host of other movies directed by Scott, from the sci-fi sequel Alien: Covenant to the biblical epic Exodus: Gods and Kings.