One of Gaff’s Origami Unicorns can be found in Alien: Isolation.

Ridley Scott said himself in an interview that BR & Alien are in the same universe.

I have always found it interesting that the 1998 film "Soldier," which is set in the same universe as "Blade Runner," uses the same pulse rifles as seen in "Aliens." Another potential connection between the two franchises.

Sooo....Do we got to see Harrison Ford shoots some xenos or not?

When Walter confronts David in Alien Covenant, he asks "When you sleep, do you dream of me?" This is a clear reference to Do androids dream of electric sheep, the novel blade runner is based on. I don't think many people noticed this one!

I just saw Blade Runner yesterday for the first time since being a kid. I noticed a screen in the police car saying "purge", which was featured before in Alien when Ripley starts the Narcisus to get out. And again in Alien Isolation, when Amanda turns on the reactor purge. And there's origamis all over Sevastopol, hinting at the other cop from Blade Runner who kept making them.

Another tie: the computer sound effects in Bladerunner when Ford is analyzing the picture of the replicant are the same as in Alien when Ripley is in the cockpit of the Nostromo using the computer.

Anyone spot the Sulaco type ship in Blade Runner 2049! I did.

That's the spirit. Yep, when I saw Covenant I immediately was like HMMM........

Predator, Blade Runner, Soldier, Alien, Outland are all set in the same universe in my opinions

I also thought the Kurt Russell film “Soldier” was in the same universe as well

"Aliens" and "The Terminator" take place in the same universe. Bishop mentions Cyberdyne Systems.

I support this Theory. The world of Predator Concrete Jungle also fits pretty well with Blade Runner

I'd like to think so. I was hoping Vickers in Prometheus would be revealed to be an unaware replicant in Covenant just like Rachael but alas. And after hearing what you quoted from Weyland, the way he interacts with Vickers would make more sense. If Vickers was an android we could then joke the only reason she ran in a straight line under the Juggernaut was because her code didn't allow her to do otherwise (more David shenanigans).

yeah i believe it. In alien covenant walter is a newer model to david, david's model was decommissioned because it became too self aware & thought for itself. This mirrors the nexus 6's, 8's and wallace's nexus 9's from blade runner 2049. Old nexus 6 & 8 models that were capable of self determination are being 'retired' while wallace's new nexus 9's which will always obey and are more robotic are being commissioned. Much like walter.

Blade Runner and Prometheus are the same quests for more life! Holy shit I watched both movies multiple times and never realized that!

Outland 1981 with Sean Connery looks more like Alien universe, few people worked on both movies.

As Roy Batty said :" i've seen so many Marvellous things on so many 'OFF-WORLD' Colonies.." it's there.. *Covenant* was an "Colonizing ship and mission.. And the Peter Weyland at the TED talk ..Gives reference about his " *Mentor* " ..indeed..That used to live on top his Pyramid..! Still waiting Like All of Us for The *YUTANI* Connection Dear friend..Friendly Greets..!LOVED ..Really Loved Villeneuve's " *Blade Runner 2049* "!😀

I love this channel, Alien Theory has great narration, fantastic dialog, content and fact checks his lore every time. He is quite reasonably the best channel for the alien franchise.

very gratifying to watch a video by someone else who enjoys pouring over the rich themes and deeply complex characters/motivations in these two franchises . Excellent work! I didn't have access to that dictated communication. This project just keeps on impressing. thanks, alien theory... et carter

How does david have eternal life? What is powering him? Even nuclear energy has a limit

I love all your theories, and your channel! Thanks for the video!

I believe that Alien and Blade Runner are connected.

That was a really good comparison of the two universes. Thank you for your work:)

I enjoyed this along with your other content. Both these universes are amazing story telling.

QUESTION is, do I exist in the Alien & Blade Runner universe!??

I love the background music you use. I wish I had links to hear these

Seems like fun retconning by Scott. But the the two *feel* different. Different aesthetics. For that reason, I'd personally prefer to think of the films as being in different universes. I think that where intended to be the same universe to begin with

And I also love the "Prometheus" reference in the opening of "...Covenant", the tea seen. In "Prometheus", Charlize Theron slams him up against a corridor wall and David asks if she'd like some tea in a mocking tone. I suppose it's more of an mortality vs. immortality. I love this channel.

That was a sick analysis, good job dude

...this is actually a very good theory

Great video, I can see the two franchises being in the same universe. I like how you broke it down with the looking for their gods/ creators. very cool ideas. Maybe Weyland makes a cameo in the new film.

I can't hide my excitement to know these movies are tied and never knowing it! Going to be re watching it all now with a whole new perspective!

Very interesting observations and yes from what you have found in hidden clues/Easter eggs, they are defiantly connected worlds..

I think it's also worth noting Ridley Scott himself has said he envisioned the world of Blade Runner in the same world as Alien.

Great stuff man!!

Great video! I missed all this clues!

Great video Alien Theory!

Excellent work as always. Both of these films are in my Top 10 favorites of all time. I can't wait to watch 2049.

There is a another conection the USS Sulaco from Aliens 1986. It was a sequence in Blade Runner 2049, it is in the middle of the movie , I was remember because in thouse scene was music from original Blade Runner compose by Vangelis.

Great video breaking down all the connections! Although it is a four year lifespan for the Nexus 7 replicants. Couldn't help it. :) Keep it up!

This video was great. Enjoyed it a ton. 👍👍👍

This evidence presented is really helping me cope with my anger against the xenomorphs being created by David in Covenant. Alien is 10x more believable and scary if the creature is a product of evolution. I hate all the God complex BS but the Blade runner tie in makes it a lot more interesting at least.

HOLY SHIT! I asked for this video in the comments of at least ten of your early videos! IT'S FINALLY HERE!!

Kick Ass Episode Alien Theory !

Can two facehuggers impregnate a person like one after another

Both are direct extensions of Philip K Dick's Valis mythos. I think that Ridley Scott is trying to fulfill the role of the "next prophet" in Dickian theology by integrating his own alien gospel into Dick's existing work.

Awesome vid!

I would be interested in whether you think the movies Outland and Moon take place in the same universe as Alien.

Excellent video!

There was a ship that looked identical to the Sulaco in the new Blade Runner, and in addition, there was a statue or something of an Engineer in Tyrell's headquarters.

I never made this connection until watching this video. I like this theory, and will look for more when I see Blade Runner 2049

What if Vickers was a Replicant?

I was asking myself this question just yesterday, and somehow KZfaq recommended me this video just as i woke up, spooky.

This is cool, thanks for this video, Blessings.

good vid!!

Edward James Almos has said something along the lines of, in his personal (I'm paraphrasing) head cannon he enjoys the idea of Battlestar Galactica also taking place in the same timeline/universe.

Ridley Scott says in the commentary for Blade Runner that he "imagines they COULD be in the same universe" Those may not be his exact words but that is the implication he made. Nothing concrete just that they could fit together.

I really love this theory. May I know the soundtrack at the video backround, plss?

Ridley wanted to have a nod to Blade Runner in Prometheus but the entire sequence where this would happen was discarded. But he definitely wanted to connect the two.

My favourite in Blade Runner 2049 was the med bay sound heard in Alien and featured in Alien: Isolation is heard in Deccard's home. Also Alien Covenant Origins has some very similar descriptions about the state of the earth which sound a lot like how it appears in Blade Runner.

@alien theory what audio is used in the background? It's so eerie and beautiful

I wanna know if Blade Runner and 2000 A.D. is in the same universe

I had thought that this was a given. But then again, I consider E.T. the Extra Terrestrial to be part of the Star Wars franchise.

Fantastic analysis thanks

Other elements: in Blade Runner 2049 there is a group of Replicants organizing a possible revolution/war against corporations. While in Alien Resurrection one of the main characters after finding out that Call (Winona Ryder's character) is an android he mentions that she belongs to a generation built after a war/rebellion involving androids (guess if the replicants started a war and then the androids followed them)

Compelling theory and a great video

I'm guessing David owns Weyaland Yutani by the time of the original Ripley saga. He is the son of Peter Weyland. Let's chat

Every video of yours is absolutely perfect.👍🏻🍻🌟

F*cking Awesome and thought provoking commentary. You sound like a true Philosopher....Kudos to you Bro.

Iv never heard this before, very interesting

In the Alien Tabletop RPG, theres a picture of a city that strikingly resembles that of Los Angeles in Blade Runner, flying cars, electronic billboards and all.

Hard to imagine both of these franchises NOT being in the same universe

While this is all interesting stuff, it seems nothing more but easter eggs, especially considering the fact that while the Predator movies have been established as officially connected to the Alien films and both are owned and produced by 20th Century Fox (and now Disney as well), the Blade Runner movies are not. I've always loved expanding cinematic universes, but thus far Blade Runner is only of easter egg status. Perhaps if someday Blade Runner will be purchased by Fox it might actually become connected to and incorporated into the Alien/Predator franchise.

Best video I've seen of the topic

4:22 FOUR-year lifespan!

This video is amazing.

*Yea, it looks like they are in the same timeline. Good video!*

Good stuff

I was told by a friend who was a star wars fan boy that the Empire used up a lot of the available resources.

I like the subtle nods, the big problem though is that aren’t animals extinct in the Bladerunner universe (hence the ‘electric’ sheep), but we clearly have animals in Alien…Jones, the dog or ox in Alien 3 etc.

Never noticed the easter eggs or thought about this before. But damn that's a cool idea.

Please whatvis the name of the song used in the video ?

Does everyone forget the entire point of blade runner? The replicants were deemed too human, too likely to rebel, that’s why they were trying to put down the off world rebellion and kill any and all replicants who “malfunctioned” by becoming too self realized and who went rogue. In Aliens and Covenant both Bishop and Walter mention something about models being scaled back because they became too human or hurt people or whatever

Damn I love that little mini fully formed xeno newborn

There are several reasons to disbelieve the theory that connects both universes: -First reason: Differences between the Synthetic of Weyland and the Nexus of Tyrell. In Blade Runner, the Nexus are biogenetic beings. It is unknown when it began to be manufactured, but the NEXUS 6 possibly was already manufactured between the end of 2015 and the beginning of 2016. They can bleed, feel pain, eat, and are capable of emotional responses. Synthetics from Weyland, apparently, do not have emotional responses, they just pretend to have them for better social interaction with humans; they do not bleed either, instead they have that fluid that looks like milk; and for what we notice they do not feel pain (otherwise David would have suffered when the Engineer decapitated him, or when his twin Walter stabbed him and hit him several times); As far as we know, David is the only synthetic model that can have emotional responses, which was corrected when the "Walter Models" began to be manufactured by Weyland-Yutani. Another thing is that in TED 2023 Peter Weyland says that they can already create cybernetic beings that would be indistinguishable from human beings "in a few years"; that contradicts the logic of Blade Runner that tells us that the NEXUS 6 were already manufactured by Tyrell in 2016. -Second reason: The quality of the Earth. In Blade Runner, and in its sequel Blade Runner 2049 we see an Earth devastated by the evil uses of the human being, completely mutilated and without any hope. In the films Prometheus and Aliens this is not visible; in the scene of the caves of Ireland in Prometheus (this in 2089) we see a clean and tidy world; and in Aliens, during the scene of the Gateway Station (this in 2179), we see that the Earth is blue and very beautiful. This is because, according to the chronology of the corporation, Weyland stopped global warming with its inventions, in addition to inventing forms of infinite energy that replaced fossil fuels. The devastated Earth does not happen until Alien Resurrection, but this is in 2379, they are almost 380 of difference with the 2019 of Blade Runner. -Third reason: Space colonies. In Blade Runner we can see that in 2019 humanity already has space colonies; however, according to the Weyland Corporation, hyperluminal journeys were not invented until 2034, and until that date humanity did not have space colonies. In fact, few know this, but Lieutenant Ellen Ripley's birthplace is a lunar colony; that is, she was born on the Moon in the year 2092. However, in Soldier (which is a spin-off film by Blade Runner published in 1998), which takes place in 2036, humanity already has colonies on different planets and even now They have started wars between these worlds. If both occurred in the same universe, it would be necessary to admit that in less than 2 years humanity could create colonies with millions of inhabitants in so many worlds and then these worlds would initiate a war for the stability of the sector. That would be crazy. -Fourth reason: The blackout of 2022. An anime-style short film has been published that narrates an event that happens 3 years after the first Blade Runner and 27 years before the new Blade Runner 2049. In it you can see 2 Nexus 8 replicants, with the help of a human sympathizer, generate an EMP that destroys human records in Los Angeles and cause deaths throughout the city, in revenge for the "pro-human" movements that hunted and killed replicants, such as the Blade Runner police units and the murky masses of maddened and supremacist people. This chaotic event causes the creation and possession of any type of replicating or similar technology, whether on Earth or in the outer colonies, to be prohibited. Considering this, if Alien happened in the same universe, it would be crazy for Weyland to create David between 2024 and 2030, there is no room for it. They could tell me that "I did it illegally", but how could anyone not know? The Blade Runner police are very powerful, and it is impossible that they had not noticed. This clearly shows that Weyland created his synthetics in a world without prohibitions, that is, outside the universe of Blade Runner.

in this case you need to explain how blade runner ( original only ) and alien ties in with soldier since roy batty references " attack ships burning off the shoulder of orion " and todds war record dictates he was at that battle

Blade Runner 2049 pretty much retconned the entire shared universe thing. Seeing as how the Tyrell Corporation isn't even in existence by 2049, it's Wallace and his company that are creating the replicants by that point in time. Dallas was born in 2075 so already there are inconsistencies. The only way to have the two series connected would be to just ignore 2049, the way Prometheus ignored AVP and AVPR

Not only do I believe they are in the same universe, I believe the Kurt Russell film "Soldier' also takes place in this universe. When going through Kurt's "Todd" characters weapon skills and proficiencies near the beginning of the film; An interesting weapon name pops up that any Alien officiando will recognize... The M41A Pulse Rifle.

Scott has said that both films could be in the same universe

Allegedly, a Sulaco-like spacecraft is briefly visible in the new Blade Runner movie. I haven't seen it yet.

Director's commentary on Prometheus I think flat out says that Tyrell was Weyland's mentor and Soldier is a kind of sidequel. The writer was also writer on Bladerunner.

With all the solid evidence you've mentioned, I am 100% sold that it's part of the same universe. Thank you

I think the fact that it’s mentioned in the captain of the Nostromo’s career history that he worked for the Tyrell Corporation is a very blatant connection to the Blade Runner universe. That, coupled with the memos from Weyland talking about Tyrell.

4:30 4 year life span, not 5.

In Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep (the original short story that Blade runner was based on) it's explained that the reason people are leaving earth is because Thermonuclear war has fucked the planet beyond repair and people are trying to get the hell out of dodge before things go further south

Another little Blade Runner reference; during the fight scene with David in Covenant, when he slaps the gun away.

Greetings WCA 420 here the host of the site (Stoner Hill) got to say from what I've seen that Blade Runner most likely Solider are part of the Alien universe would definitely love to count Outland in that to but we all know that they will not do that but to me, I say it would have been an awesome concept if it did.

When K enters Wallace's building there is a figure which resembles an engineer in one of the display cases. Thematically Wallace fits well into the progression of the characters, Shaw wants to find God, Weyland considers himself an equal to God, David refuses to acknowledge God and Wallace believes he is above God.

OMG, THE XENOMORPH VS THE TYREL REPLICANTS! LETS MAKE IT HAPPEN!!!