October 07, 2012A couple non Ridley Scott movies have done the Tyrell easter egg thing already, so no it isn't to be taken seriously.
In "Aliens", when Sigourney was being interviewed about the events on the Nostromo, you see the crew's pictures on a screen in the backgroud. On Dallas's it says he worked for Tyrell *(note the nod to screenwriters on it as well, Seymour-Cobb Genetics Corp. and the U.S.C.S. Shusett )
In "Soldier", we discover the character Todd was present at Tannhauser Gate, which Roy Batty mentioned in his death soliloquy.
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I really don't think it's anything more than an easter egg, but hey you never know. They are Ridley's movies, he created the universes so I guess he can do what he wants. I would personally prefer they stay separate.
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Here is a direct quote from Charles de Lauzirika, the man who created the supposed communique written by Peter Weyland (Guy Pearce), which made some pretty obvious allusions to Blade Runner's Eldon Tyrell.
He apparently got the idea from fans online trying to connect the dots between the two acclaimed sci-fi universes, and thought he would have a little fun to see if anyone would catch on. Of course, everyone did:
[i]"That was me having fun and being cutesy. I wrote all that stuff. I actually said this at the press conference they had in London, which is that if it's in the film, it's canon. I would argue that the viral pieces that are included in the Peter Weyland Files are canon just because they originated with Ridley and Damon Lindelof. I would say those, to some degree, are canon. But anything else - especially these which are kind of like little cute, embedded text graphics on the menus - I wouldn't take those too seriously. It's just meant to be an in-universe framework for those viral pieces."
"As a Blade Runner fan, and because there's been so much talk before this even occurred with people on the Internet speculating that maybe Alien and Blade Runner and Prometheus could all exist in the same universe, it was just more of a wink at that. Absolutely nothing to be taken seriously. I mean, I sent it to Ridley and he had no comment. [Laughs] So, it's just icing on top of icing. It's not the cake. It's a fun, little side thing that's very superficial. And, by the way, it in no way officially establishes that it's Blade Runner because, if a lawyer were to comb through that, there's no reference to Tyrell or anything in Blade Runner. It's just a very lightly intentioned joke."[/i]
So as you can see, it is NOT canon, it was just something he thought would be fun to add to the DVD.
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