Marvel's plan was relatively straight forward. Start with small-fry and work your way up. Hulk, Iron Man, Thor, Captain America, then Avengers. So on, and so forth. It's not just the plan though, it was the fairly consistent execution across the films. They all harmonise really well. That's not something any of the Alien films have ever done. They are very tonally different. Alien is a haunted house in space, Aliens is a war movie, Alien 3 is a gothic horror. They have some thematic ties, but they're very distinct films in a number of key ways.
I don't really see a huge demand forming for something like that. I mean, for a fan, it's always a little fun to think of movies like Outland or Blade Runner existing in the same universe as Alien. Which is basically what we're talking about here, only the reverse. Making movies that are designed to inhabit the Alien universe without the Alien.
To me, Weyland Yutani, at leas the cliche version that has been propagated in the films and EU, has always been the least interesting thing in the franchise. I always preferred the interpretation of a corporation that wasn't malicious trying to do things, and instead was so automated, cold, and disconnected from it's people that things like what happened in the first film could happen, because it was all automatic. Things are just done by a large computer "network."
But we'd never get that. We'd get the dark room with a bunch of suits smoking cigars plotting on how they would proceed with their next big step in "TeH eVuL conspiracy to haz da Aliem!"
Quote from: bb-15 on Dec 08, 2017, 07:03:33 PM
Whatever you want to call it; Weyland-Yutani movie universe or expanded Alien film universe; this expansion has already been accomplished by the two prequels.
There is an expansion on; the Space Jockey (Engineers), the Engineer main weapon (the black goo), creatures which are created using the black goo (Hammerpede, Deacon, Trilobite, Neomorph as well as an origin of the Xenomorph), the discovery of the Engineer home planet, an explanation of why LV-426 was off limits (since it was next to LV-223 where bad things happened), a colony planet Origae-6 and so on.
- Compare all of that expansion to the first 4 Alien movies.
In terms of location; 2 on LV-426, on earth space station (A2 / A4) and Fiorina "Fury" 161 (A3).
The kinds of monsters; xenomorphs/eggs/facehuggers and a queen.
You're talking about "stuff." Which is not the same thing as actual narrative expansion. The prequels aren't really expansions on the universe. They shrink the Alien universe by a great deal. Just about every major mystery has been tied and connected to humanity in some way.
