INTERLINKED - Blade Runner 2049, Alien Covenant, Aliens and Soldier - Updated!

I have not seen Soldier. Kurt is amazing (Escape from New York, The Thing)! 

This is a very well laid out post. I cannot absorb it all, but I am confident there are those around here who can, and I thank you for the post. +1

Excellent post, going to feature it awhile. 

Interesting comparisons.... i will have to try and watch Soldier its a movie i have never seen.

Nice one. I didn't know that one about the 2001 EVA.

NB Ridley Scott has a thing about eyes, especially in Blade Runner. That movie is just stuffed full of other eye-related matters. Like Chew's eye factory, the owl blinking, Roy sticking his thumbs into Tyrell's eyes, the red glint in Deckard and Rachel's eyes, the Voight-Kampff machine display...

dk - Thank you and you're welcome. Most of the text is from the sources, of course.

Svanya - Thank you.

BigDave - I'm going to rewatch it tomorrow. And it was directed by the producer of Pandorum, Paul WS Anderson, director of Event Horizon and the first AvP movie. :)

The Blade Runner (expanded) universe seems to be much bigger than we thought...

whats in the expanded universe?

hox - Your comment about the eyes is fantastic. I'm going to collect the relevant stills from the movies.

As for Star Wars - The Phantom Menace, we can see Indiana Jones in one of the podracing scenes:

'If you look very, very closely at the crowd in the podracing scene in The Phantom Menace, you can even spot Indy finding his seat.'

http://www.forcematerial.com/home/2017/2/28/the-state-of-the-galaxy-address

sure if u look hard enough ul find Wally

'sure if u look hard enough ul find Wally' - You are right.

'whats in the expanded universe?'

- I don't know, ali81, it's up to the viewer I think. If you believe that two movies are in the same universe, it's OK. It's a personal thing...

It's an interesting fact that the writer of Blade Runner and Soldier claims that these movies are in the same universe. I don't claim anything...

Hmm... I see two movies named Soldier both in 1998 and the wrong one is on Netflix. Drats!

dk - The wrong one is a musical. :)

For hox:

'...there have been crossovers between George Lucas’ fictional universes before, most famously in the form of hieroglyphs of C-3P0 and R2-D2 in Raiders of the Lost Ark, and Club Obi Wan in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.'

I never realised about the Event Horizon link.

So let me see if I have got this right, The Soldier universe has visual links to the Alien universe and Blade Runner universe. OK, I think I’ve got that. Now the Predator universe is linked to the Alien universe (AVP) and judging from the instrumentation in the derelict ship in Predators, I want to know if at some point we will ever see the Krell from Forbidden Planet?

directors do this from time to time to acknowledge other directors and scenes r sometimes used from other movies such as the purge scene in BR that was from aliens but the films have nothing at all connecting them.

Batchpool - I do not claim anything about these links in the article, I just find these references interesting. That's all.

I'm trying to find Event Horizon's spaceship and the spinner from Blade Runner in the movie. And the Liberty Bell in the waste disposal ship... Stills are coming.

ali81 - And sometimes the writer (David Webb Peoples, writer of Blade Runner and Soldier) and the director (Paul WS Anderson) claim the same. Namely, the two movies are in the same universe.

But they are not important people...

im talking about BR and alien

OK, but you wrote this:

'directors do this from time to time to acknowledge other directors'

Both Alien (1979) and Blade Runner (1982) were directed by Ridley Scott.

so? Ridley used something from a James Cameron film....

What did he use?

I stand corrected. he used his own scene from alien.

Ok...

Scott revealed that he had used two shots in BR taken from Alien. They did not want to spend money on new ones...

doesn't mean they exist in the same universe.

Doesn't mean.

@ Ati

Batchpool - I do not claim anything about these links in the article, I just find these references interesting. That's all

I know. But while an observation is not a claim, it can and does highlight stuff that can go unnoticed, that in some cases may play a more significant role and is a hidden clue or nod to something else. There are some hidden gems out there.

What I find interesting is that many movies tend to have all sorts of hidden features in the background, and can sometimes have subtle links to other movies. Where I find it gets more interesting is to discover which ones provide deliberate links and which ones don’t. In the case of the purge scene in BR which was also part of the umbilical in Alien which was done by RS because he just happened to think it worked well for visual effect. There are those shots of course that RS used in BR from Stanley Kubrick for The Shining (Jack Nicholson). It is certainly the case that what happened to end up on the cutting room floor for some movies has provided useful footage for others. Obviously the Shining is in no way related to the Alien universe, but there are connections in the background that are independent of storylines that act as inspiration for me to play around with movie connections from time to time, which is what inspired this image.

And no, I am not claiming any universe connection between The Shining and Alien universe or BR on the basis that the bar tender in The Shining is Tyrell ( Joe Turkell). lol.

Excellent topic Ati.

I'm going to watch Soldier again. Thank you for that above regarding the corresponding themes and the insistence from the writer on the inclusion of the films in the same universe. That does have merit.

Tatooine was shown in Marvel Agents of Shield. I do think a lot of the examples above is a fun way to acknowledge other directors.

Ingeniero - Glad you like it. Nice Tatooine reference.

Stills from Soldier:

Event Horizon's Lewis & Clark:

A spinner from Blade Runner:

The Liberty Bell:

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Is that a Terminator skeleton? lol