I am currently in the process of drafting a prequel to the film Alien to replace the film Prometheus. I was thoroughly disappointed with the latter film's attempt at leading into the former film, so I have taken it upon myself to write what I believe to be a worthy predecessor. It is called Salient in order to tie in with the theme of including the word "alien" in the title of each Alien film.

Salient takes place in the year 2112, ten years before Alien, and concerns a deadly incident at a secret Weyland Enterprises experimentation and research station orbiting above the ice world NX-1138.

The threat is not the Xenomorph from the other Alien films, but something else equally vile.