Comcast has now further sweetened their offer by including a $2.5 billion "break-up fee". What this means is that if the Fox/Comcast deal runs into regulatory trouble Fox will still get the $2.5 billion. Not sure if a deal between Fox and Comcast carries a greater risk than a deal between Fox and Disney.
Quote from: Huggs on May 11, 2018, 03:07:27 AM
Granted, there may be a need to tweak a few things, but life on earth being one of the lesser featured things in the Alien series, you can basically connect them with anything. Could say the nexus models were too lifelike and emotional, so were replace by more android and controllable A.I. And there was that letter from Weyland written about the death of Tyrell. The two series have also shared sound effects. You don't need to have the Aliens running loose on earth, but a skilled writer and director should easily be able to merge them. Ridley certainly could.
CdL said the letter from Weyland about Tyrell was just a little fun easter egg and shouldn't be considered canon or taken seriously. Shared sound effects and video clips of screen display graphics is neither here nor there. It happens all the time in film. Blade Runner also features a Millennium Falcon model and sounds effects from Empire Strikes back while SW Ep.2 features spinners flying in the background of Coruscant.
Aside from the Alien/BR timeline compatibility issues, stylistically Blade Runner is half set in the future and half set in the 1930 to 1950's Noir era. People are already complaining about how Prometheus/Covenant doesn't match up technology wise with Alien/Aliens. Can you imagine Prometheus in the same world as Blade Runner with it's forties fashions/hair-styles and heavy Art Deco stylizing on buildings and vehicles etc.
BR Production illustrator, Tom Southwell talks a bit about this in Dangerous Days. Says they all originally thought they were doing Alien 2 but after seeing the Union Station sets it started dawning on them that this was something completely different style-wise. As Crazy Shrimp says, it's like trying to merge Star Trek with Star Wars.
