Hawley flat-out said that, despite not actually having the authority to do so, he's pretending that Prometheus and Alien: Covenant don't exist, which immediately and automatically puts Alien Earth at odds with the movies.
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Hawley flat-out said that, despite not actually having the authority to do so, he's pretending that Prometheus and Alien: Covenant don't exist, which immediately and automatically puts Alien Earth at odds with the movies.
Who has the authority?
On Disney and FX
Ridley Scott.
Even though Ridley Scott has a say, Disney definitely has the right to say on matters like canon.
I really doubt that there's anyone higher up on the production chain than Ridley Scott who cares about Canon, which is why I listed him as the ultimate authority on what narratively counts and what doesn't when it comes to the Alien Films specifically.
Yeah well for me he lost that privilege after he made Prometheus.
Exactly. There's a huge a difference between ignoring Prometheus/Covenant and directly contradicting them. Right now it appears Hawley is doing the former.
Hawley just doesnt have time for the black goo/David stuff, and that's fair enough, as it would add nothing to this story. It would probably be a distraction more than anything.
Even so, Prometheus contradicted AVP for the most part, but it won't stop me including it in a watch through. I don't think we have to pay attention to the company line, especially in this universe.
Even so, Prometheus contradicted AVP for the most part, but it won't stop me including it in a watch through. I don't think we have to pay attention to the company line, especially in this universe.
Treating this IP as a series of self-contained sub-franchises makes everything much simpler and less frustrating/annoying.
You know what makes it even simpler?
Just look past the contractions and enjoy each productions as is.
Treating the 7 films, Alien Earth, and the Predator/AvP films as separate self-contained sub-franchise entities eliminates the contradictions entirely.
I would even go so far as to say it borrowed elements from AVP, consciously or not.
I always thought that most of the humans are very dumb in the alien movies. Like in Prometheus, a huge egg is folding open, lets put my head above it. Or a couple of episodes ago, Wendy being chased by a alien and running through a door. I almost screamed at the tv "close the door".
The closest thing to a direct contraditon is the presence of a laval xeno inside a facehugger. Romulus established the facehuggers implant the black goo, which implies there isn't a "baby" xeno per se but rather mutated host tissue that forms the adult.
(Which I prefer, actually. It means the adult xenos are basically a really bizarre form of cancer.)
Why him? He didn't create Alien. That was Dan O'Bannon and Ronald Shusett, He didn't write it, that was O'Bannon. IMDB doesn't give him any credits on Aliens, that was James Cameron's show. He wasn't involved with Alien 3, Alien Resurrection, or the Alien vs Predator movies. He's one of six credited producers (in addition to several executive and associate producers) on Alien Romulus. Why should Hawley worry about his opinion?
The franchise's "idea" rights belong to Ridley Scott,(More precisely, as far as I understand, after the Alien productions before 2010, Ridley Scott acquired the 'idea' rights of the franchise.) and anyone directing an Alien series or film must satisfy him. He's also the producer of that series and Alien Romulus. Neill Blomkamp also had an Alien 5 project that would erase the history of Alien 3 and 4. At least, until Ridley Scott waved his hand in a camera-focused environment and declared, "You can't make Alien!", Ridley Scott was on the fence about anyone but him making Alien. He's recently changed his mind.
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Or you could just not worry about "canon" and just enjoy the stories as they are. I know that's apparently a weird way to do it, but at this point that's how I'm approaching it.
What are "idea" rights?
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