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We should have taken it more seriously. (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 months ago by Pharmacokinetics@lemmy.world to c/memes@lemmy.ml

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[-] GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 19 points 5 months ago

Eugenics wars and ww3 next 🫠 I dont like this timeline

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 22 points 5 months ago

Technically the Blade Runner universe is the Aliens universe too, so, don't worry, it will get worse.

[-] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 2 points 5 months ago

Ooh, how are they linked?

[-] eletes@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 months ago

If I remember right they both have the same company Weyland yutani

[-] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 2 points 5 months ago

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blade_Runner

Screen capture of DVD bonus feature from Prometheus (2012), a dictated letter by Peter Weyland about Eldon Tyrell, chief executive officer of the Tyrell Corporation

So, Prometheus establishes Tyrell Corporation and Weyland-Yutani as competitors! Neat.

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

And there's this:

https://www.reddit.com/r/MovieDetails/comments/leecbe/alien_1979_and_bladerunner_1982_have_identical/

There's also some commentary from Ridley Scott, one of the displayed replicant body designs in 2049 is clearly an Engineer, and I believe a billboard for Weyland in one of the Blade Runners, but I can't find that screenshot so maybe I'm misremembering that one.

Most of it is Easter Egg level stuff but there's enough that it's canon if you want it to be. Or not.

Really, the biggest takeaway I learned from this connection hunt back in the day was that the Blade Runner humanity had multiple colonies on other planets, which was just not something I remembered being a thing from the movies.