Do you want to hear something shocking?AlienandBlade Runnermay be set in the same universe.
But it may be more than Scotts fingerprints they share.
And we certainly think, to a point, that it has merit.
And thats a world we want to be a part of, dammit!
Even before a psychosexual Lovecraftian horror, compliments of H.R.
Giger, came aboard, the ship was a pretty bleak place to be.
That is because humans by and large have wrought a world of utilitarian uselessness in both films.
And the people with real depth and souls are the robots built to serve them.
InAlien, Ash is unstable and perhaps the craftiest aspect of the story beside the infamous chestburster itself.
He also was placed on the ship at the last minute because hes really an android.
Still there is something unhinged about Ash that suggests its not all ones and zeroes.
Roy Batty is less evil than Ash despite being a robot also in search of humanity via questionable morality.
He doesnt think about his job; he just pulls the trigger.
Otherwise, he would have realized Replicants deserved to live before going to bed with the synthetic Rachael.
Only when he rejects the so-called superiority of humanity.
PrometheusDavid is the perfect bridge between the two.
Hell wipe out whole civilizations for his own ends.
After being stabbed, David hisses, Thats the spirit!
And whatever real-life reason there may be for this similarity, within the films they are pretty damn convincing.
Arthur Dallas freelanced a stint for the Tyrell Corporation ofBlade Runner.
Yet more on the nose still is the below image from the UK steel box release ofPrometheuson Blu-ray.
He also gave his own synthetic robots false memories, which Weyland mocks as implicitly naive.
Both Weylands Mars office glimpsed in a hologram inPrometheusand Tyrells pyramid office share nearly identical architecture.
And more acutely similar are the journeys both men are on.
This Adam-like figure seeks Tyrell out to beg for more life.
And Scott has a bit of a reputation for giving sometimes contradictory information about the sci-fi worlds hes built.
Thats how I thought about it.
If it seems good enough for Sir Ridley Scott, it should likely be good enough for us.
Again, their intrinsic values are so similar that a union between the franchises feels fairly natural.
But they are trying to put order onto a cosmos that is filled with indescribable dread.
The only purity in these films is the oblivion offered by a xenomorph.
In that sense,Blade RunnerandAlienwere literally made for each otherfar more thanAlienandPredatorever were.
