Why do people want to connect Blade Runner and Alien?

[yhe1]

Having watched both Blade runner and 2049, I find the replicants very different from the android in Aliens. And there is no "Ultimate hunter vs Ultimate prey" or Starcraft like aspect of AVP.

So why do some people want Blade runner connected to Alien?

[P-Rock]

They do?

The only movie that's connected to Blade Runner is Soldier.

[SM]

People have been connecting Alien and Blade Runner since Blade Runner came out.  Because it's cool connecting different movies in single universe.

They don't of course - but that's by the by.

[Voodoo Magic]

Old One, you're up!

[Rankles75]

I love both series', but I've never had any interest in a shared universe between them.

[Huggs]

Two halves of the same bio-mechanical heart.

[The Old One]

Having watched both Blade runner and 2049, I find the replicants very different from the android in Aliens. And there is no "Ultimate hunter vs Ultimate prey" or Starcraft like aspect of AVP.

So why do some people want Blade runner connected to Alien?

You answered your own question.

[irn]

So why do some people want Blade runner connected to Alien?

It stems from the easter egg links such as the Nostromo parts seen in Blade Runner, the mention of Dallas having worked for the Tyrell Corp. in the past in Aliens (see below) and the thing about Weyland competing with Tyrell in the the Prometheus extras.

[Ingwar]

Personally I don't know anyone who wants the connection of Blade Runner and Alien universes.

[Local Trouble]

Oh, they're out there.  Some are even closer than you think...

[Ingwar]

Probably yes, but I still don't know them personally. You one of them?

[SiL]

The Old One is.

[Ingwar]

Fair enough but it still doesn't change the fact that those movies ain't happen in the same universe.

[The Old One]

Spiritual connection. (:

[Ingwar]

The main connection they have is their director, Ridley Scott Hence spiritual connection. And there is another mutual element: both are retro but it's related to the period they were made in. End of 70's and early 80's.