Quote from: predxeno on Feb 27, 2015, 04:49:58 AM
Quote from: SpeedyMaxx on Feb 27, 2015, 04:15:53 AM
Quote from: predxeno on Feb 27, 2015, 12:14:05 AM
Quote from: SpeedyMaxx on Feb 26, 2015, 11:28:40 PM
It's not remotely canon, and I assure you even the execs who once implied that to help sales have already forgotten all about it. None of the EU is canon or ever will be. It means nothing to anyone except the most hardcore fanbase, and that's not the demographic the studio is intent on re-pitching this franchise to. Same thing with the terrible Star Wars books or the dogged fans of that Terminator TV show - shit outta luck.
Sorry, but before I acknowledge something as not canon, I'll need more to go on than the moans and groans of pissed off fanboys.
LOL, this has nothing to do with how I feel. I never even played the game. It wouldn't matter if the game was the second coming of System Shock or Mass Effect, though - there is less than zero chance a film studio has any interest in tying its film canon down to a bunch of video games and promotional tie-in materials that only hardcore sci-fi buffs know about. That's a fact of life and we see it everyday. Expecting any of the video games or books or comic books over the last several decades to be seriously referenced or acknowledged as canon in these films in any way is dreaming. But you should know that by now. It's not about the geek hardcore. It's about the largest possible audience.
Yeah, I know expecting a video game or comic reference is a forlorn dream, but I still acknowledge them as canon (as in it actually happened) to the series.
You can if you want to, sure. But what I'm saying is that the studio and the filmmakers don't and won't, and that goes for the AVP films as well, IMO. They might say nice things to placate the hardcore fans who like absolutely all of it - like not denying the possibility that Guy Pearce's Weyland and that silly Lance Henriksen character from AVP could coexist, while not saying yes either - but FOX knows they treated those franchises and others (X-Men, etc.) like a McDonald's chain for most of the early 2000s and they are busy whitewashing all of it away now. All that stuff, those crossover films, the games, the comics, they're ignored.
They may or may not ever come out and say "f**k that shit," but that is exactly what every studio means when it comes to any EU material for any major film franchise, unless it is some sort of runaway hit on its own in the mainstream - and even then it is no guarantee (look at the weird DC Comics TV shows, some of which are wildly popular on basic cable, but which DC will never validate as being part of their film canon even if they run ten years like silly-ass Smallville).