Meet the new boss, same as the old, only younger and more irritating. Photo: FX The Alien franchise is about scarier things than terrifying chest-bursting Xenomorphs or even cold, calculating synthetic beings. Like, for instance, corporations. Starting with Ridley Scott’s 1979 sci-fi horror masterpiece and continuing in James Cameron’s action-horror sequel and the subsequent films, the ultrapowerful global conglomerate Weyland-Yutani has long been the franchise’s true villain. In Alien: Earth ,