Rebecca Ferguson’s Bonkers ‘Alien’ Replacement Is Officially the Perfect Sci-Fi Sleeper Hit

Published Aug 1, 2026, 4:00 AM EDT

Adam Blevins began working in the entertainment industry in 2022 as a Staff Writer for Agents of Fandom, where he progressed to Senior Editor and interviewed talent from Marvel Studios, House of the Dragon, and Planet of the Apes. He joined Collider as a News Author in April 2024, was promoted to a Senior position in December 2024, and has written over 3,000 articles for the site, including exclusives relating to Avengers: Doomsday, The Penguin, Star Wars: Skeleton Crew, and more. He primarily writes about the latest box office numbers and the hottest movies and TV shows on streaming, while also covering superhero and sci-fi news. He has completed a set visit for The Chosen and even has several months of experience writing Gaming Features at ScreenRant. You can find him on X, LinkedIn, and Muckrack.

Rebecca Ferguson is already having quite the year so far, further cementing her status as one of the most important stars in the sci-fi genre. She began 2026 by teaming up with Chris Pratt for the Amazon original sci-fi thriller, Mercy, which scurried to stream on Prime Video following an underwhelming run at the box office. She’ll return to the sci-fi genre for redemption later this year when she reprises her role as Lady Jessica in Dune: Part Three, the third and final sci-fi movie in the epic Dune trilogy from director Denis Villeneuve. While it will be undeniably exciting to see Ferguson return as Lady Jessica, she recently confirmed that she will have only one scene in the sci-fi film, even admitting that it’s already been spoiled in the trailers.

Ferguson has been starring in movies and TV shows for a long time now, and while there have been plenty of hits, it’s only natural that there have been a few misses as well. One of the most polarizing movies of her career came back in 2017 when she teamed up with **Ryan Reynolds **and Jake Gyllenhaal for Life, the space sci-fi horror film written by **Rhett Rheese **and Paul Wernick, and directed by Daniel Espinosa. The film is eerily similar to Alien, as it follows a team of scientists on board a spaceship who find themselves on the run from a rapidly evolving alien predator. Life is not streaming anywhere in America at the time of writing, but the film has quietly become one of Ferguson’s most popular VOD purchases in more than 10 countries on platforms like Prime Video and iTunes.

Your answers point to the world your instincts were built for. This is the universe your temperament, your survival instincts, and your particular brand of stubbornness were made for.

You took the red pill a long time ago — probably before anyone offered it to you. You’re a systems thinker who can’t help but notice the seams in things.

The wasteland doesn’t reward the clever or the well-connected — it rewards those who are hard to kill and harder to break. That’s you.

You’d survive here because you know how to exist in moral grey areas without losing yourself completely.

Arrakis is the most hostile environment in the known universe — and you are precisely the kind of person it rewards.

The galaxy far, far away is vast, loud, and in a constant state of violent political upheaval — and you wouldn’t have it any other way.

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