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Aliens Fans Are Celebrating Alien Day 2020

It's 4/26 today, which means it's Alien Day, and fans are celebrating online with some of their best memes, fan art and quarantine jokes.

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Today is Alien Day, the day fans celebrate the beloved horror franchise that began with Ridley Scott’s classic, Alien, back in 1979. Why April 26th you ask? Well, it’s a reference from Aliens, as it’s a conversion of LV-426, the designation of the moon Acheron, into the date “4/26.”

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Of course, the first two Alien films are masterpieces and refreshingly distinct from one another. By the time we got to Alien 3, though, the franchise was beginning to slow down. While it’s an interesting re-watch simply because it was David Fincher’s debut feature, the movie just doesn’t hold a candle to the first two. Not to mention the opening scene, which completely tears down everything about James Cameron’s Aliens.

And the less said about Alien: Resurrection the better. There’s clones, Ron Perlman and a strange basketball scene. Scott attempted to reboot the franchise with Prometheus back in 2012, of course, but despite being visually stunning, the movie has a host of problems. Still, he continued the story with 2017’s Alien: Covenant, which underperformed, leaving the franchise in limbo at the moment.

Now that Disney owns 20th Century Studios, it’s hard to say when we’ll see the Xenomorphs again. The Mouse House plans to reboot the franchise, but that may be several years down the road. In the meantime, though, fans are celebrating Alien Day on social media with various tributes. You’ve got memes, fan art and reposts of director Neill Blomkamp’s concept art from a potential Alien 5 that never came to fruition.

See for yourself below:

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If you’re looking to celebrate Alien Day accordingly, the original Alien Quadrilogy is available to stream on HBO right now and should provide ample entertainment as you continue to self-quarantine and try to keep busy.