Quote from: SM on Mar 01, 2020, 07:31:43 PM
It would not surprise me if they did what they did with Star Wars and hit reset with the films being the core source material, and spin new content off that.
It would also not surprise me if they ditched Alien 3 and Resurrection.
I can see that as a possibility get J.C to direct a true successor to Aliens that blends better with Prometheus etc.
So I was spitballing this idea with a friend and he reminded me that Blade runner has been hinted and rumoured to be shared universe with the Alien films. Also that timelines can be explained by misinformation or different colonies setting up there own history so to speak and films set in the past can still exist in cannon like Predator. So we had a non license based conversation about existing film franchises that could fit together. Bear in mind for fans for most franchises this is of course sacrilege and just thought exercise.
Okay so the universe is set around the Engineers and all their terrible creations.
Engineer creates mankind as seen in Prometheus but also creates weapons such as the black goo and The Thing.
Meanwhile and emerging race called the Yautja or Predators grow into a threat as the engineers race becomes stagnant. This later leads to wars between the two where the Engineer creature more deadly weapons to fight the Yautja unwittingly giving them a purpose and making them stronger.
We start with the Thing series where the movies stay cannon but later it is revealed the Thing was created by the Engineers to infiltrate their enemies home worlds and destroy them from the inside without them knowing until it was to late and the seeds of mistrust were already sown. Unfortunately the creation was to difficult to control and direct as its survival drive would always take over, with no other option the Engineers set to destroying this failure only for several to realise this and to escape using the engineers and their ships to flee one being the Thing on earth as seen in the two films. This leads to the engineers work into the Black goo.
The Predator film series now takes place as normal (we decided Avp and AvP:R would be ripped from cannon here so no Predators teaching mankind or existence of Xenomorphs to early). A push on Yutani as a company backing the taskforce dealing with the XT Predators would be inserted here.
Prometheus/Alien: C happens with a 3rd film linking them to the ship found in the original Alien David's dream come true. A subtle hint to the Engineers war with the Predators on a mural in the background to build the world again.
On a planet dubbed by Weyland as "New Earth" (due to them taking old earths countries and cities names and starting their own calendar which explains the year differences) in a rivals companies sector of owned space. We have the Blade Runner films taking place this franchise will link in with another film showing them dealing with the failed synthetic uprising as described by Call in Alien Resurrection (Only The AvP films where cut from our cannon).
Alien 1-3 happen with Alien isolation getting made cannon in some form of TV show, film etc.
Meanwhile we get a Starship Troopers reboot (it's old enough and got to wacky that we see it getting a cut to be moulded as a connecting film) this takes part in another companies sector of space with a slightly more series tone think of a mix between the original ST and Aliens marines.
Speaking of marines one liners like your part of the Terran Federation not some backwater opperation like the UMSC and how they need to destroy the bugs not only for the good of Humanity but to stop traitors like Weyland-Yutani from exploiting their enemies against them. Once again they will refer to themselves as having Earth in their system (forming a theme like in the existing Alien franchise where we are not sure what has happened to eartha d with these inclusions who actually is in possession of the real earth?).
We would also have hints that the engineers created the Bugs but once again it didn't end well. What can I say mostly it's just another Bug hunt.
Now we get interesting we get Alien:R which as we know has a bit of a time jump. With the films working hard to create narrative bridges between existing films while still being good standalone films we get a new Alien (not prequel but Sequel) film and a Predator film set after 2379 (W-Y time) setting us up for the vs film while establishing the two films in their new Disney owned setting.
Then we get the Alien Vs Predator reboot film set after Alien: R having it play out like an Alien film but witha 3rd party being added with the predators (but more of a slasher calculated threat building more of difference between the two species other than 1 kinda has honour). I'd add reason for The Predator using upgrades here as in the humans have uncovered a hidden Engineer base with a new War mkde6Engineer and they have come to wipe them out. David having perfected the Xenomorph cycle the Engineers have weaponized them (similar to like that of the comics with pheromones etc) only for it to of course all go wrong. The outcome leaving both the Engineer race and Weyland-Yutanis fate uncertain.
The films can then break off and do their own thing again even if its prequels set in modern times or even earlier or more future styles films.
Would be a tricky adventure but if done right it leaves fans of most of the films happy as their exisiting films dont really change, with the trend of shared film universes being set up. Personally I'd be okay with the more crazy shared universe adventures to be in a animated or tv series format where fans can regard them as soft cannon if they dont like them or even disregard them.
Do you guys think Disney would try something like this or more likely to previous films are all soft cannon bar the original Alien and Predator films and here is our version of their universe?
-TJ88