If there’s one thing that is, for me, an unqualified triumph in Alien 3, it’s Elliot Goldenthal’s score. With its cacophonous drums and heart-rending strings, it soared where the film itself faltered.

News of South African director Neill Blomkamp’s possible ‘Alien’ movie has been smouldering among fans for a while now. But Sigourney Weaver might have just thrown some extra petrol on the fire. She ...