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I like that question.
Weyland Industries - Owned by Charles Bishop Weyland
Weyland Corporation - Owned by Peter Weyland
The Weyland Corporation was formed in 2012. Peter Weyland might have inherited the company and rebranded it, or formed his own company seperate from it. In the case of the first, Peter is probably the mysterious Weyland in Predator: Concrete Jungle, though in the second case then that is probably another family member who runs Weyland Industries while Peter runs Weyland Corp. Certainly the companies should be related though.
Interestingly, Peter Weyland at the age of 14 was granted a Method Patent for a synthetic trachea constructed entirely of synthetically-engineered stem cells. Coincidently, Charles Bishop Weyland was suffering from advanced bronchogenic carcinoma (lung cancer). AVP occurs the same year and month Peter was granted his method patent. It appears as if he was trying to save his relative perhaps, though it was all in vain. The only real issue is caused by Global Warming being reversed in 2017 while the Predator franchise acts as if it's still ongoing - best explanation is that the Weyland Industries timeline is essentially a form of propaganda. Yes, Weyland was able to hugely reduce the speed of global warming with his synthetic atmosphere, but he didn't entirely stop it.
Not to mention, tie-in comics explicitly treat both AVP and Prometheus to be canonical. Continually they produce media linking the two. They shouldn't be treated as the same franchise in my opinion, pretty obvious really, but they are the same universe and it seems largely redundant to make multiple timelines.
Weyland Industries - Owned by Charles Bishop Weyland
Weyland Corporation - Owned by Peter Weyland
The Weyland Corporation was formed in 2012. Peter Weyland might have inherited the company and rebranded it, or formed his own company seperate from it. In the case of the first, Peter is probably the mysterious Weyland in Predator: Concrete Jungle, though in the second case then that is probably another family member who runs Weyland Industries while Peter runs Weyland Corp. Certainly the companies should be related though.
Interestingly, Peter Weyland at the age of 14 was granted a Method Patent for a synthetic trachea constructed entirely of synthetically-engineered stem cells. Coincidently, Charles Bishop Weyland was suffering from advanced bronchogenic carcinoma (lung cancer). AVP occurs the same year and month Peter was granted his method patent. It appears as if he was trying to save his relative perhaps, though it was all in vain. The only real issue is caused by Global Warming being reversed in 2017 while the Predator franchise acts as if it's still ongoing - best explanation is that the Weyland Industries timeline is essentially a form of propaganda. Yes, Weyland was able to hugely reduce the speed of global warming with his synthetic atmosphere, but he didn't entirely stop it.
Not to mention, tie-in comics explicitly treat both AVP and Prometheus to be canonical. Continually they produce media linking the two. They shouldn't be treated as the same franchise in my opinion, pretty obvious really, but they are the same universe and it seems largely redundant to make multiple timelines.
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