Blade Runner - Timeline

[Pro Bot]

This is the timeline for the Blade Runner franchise, featuring the two Blade Runner movies and Soldier.

Spoiler: Soldier Canonicity

The Tanhauser Gate and Shoulder of Orion battles mentioned by Roy Batty are shown on Todd's combat history. He also has them tattooed on his arm and there's spoken dialogue about the Tanhauser Gate battle.

Colonel Mekum's batch of soldiers that replace Todd and his fellow soldiers are said to have been manufactured using DNA profiles to be the perfect soldier, unlike Todd's crew who were selected at birth. This suggests that Todd is being replaced by replicants. Interestingly, Blade Runner 2036: Nexus Dawn has the introduction of the Nexus-9 replicants as occurring in 2036, the same year that Soldier is set.

You can spot a police spinner from Blade Runner on Arcadia 234 in Soldier.

In the September/October 1998 issue of Cinescape, David Peoples stated that he viewed Soldier as a spin-off of Blade Runner set in the same fictional universe. However, he was asked again in 2023 and denied this completely. It should be noted that David Peoples has never seen the film as the script meant a lot to him and he fears watching the movie would break his heart. I also believe that he's talking about when he first wrote the movie and what inspired him, which doesn't contradict that he later viewed it as the same world.

No, I never had any thoughts about that... I wrote Soldier in 1984. Very quickly on my own. I wrote it because I saw the first Terminator in the theater, stunned. And it was such a wonderful movie. I'd always wanted to write a movie in which there was a tough guy who would be seemingly unsympathetic in the lead, and I felt that The Terminator was almost there. Later in the sequel, it was determined he was the hero, but at the time, he was sort of a villain. But the fact is, he was so great. I went off, and I decided to write about this soldier."

Director Paul W.S. Anderson confirmed that Blade Runner and Soldier are set in the same universe on the director's commentary.

"Now, on Kurt's shoulder there is the Tanhauser Gate. That's one of the battles that he fought in, which people might recognise from Blade Runner as well, Rutger Hauer talks about C-beams glittering in the darkness off the Tanhauser Gate, and David Peoples also did the adaptation of Blade Runner. There's a lot of references to Blade Runner in this film. I always saw the two movies, Soldier and Blade Runner, although they're very, very different, as existing in the same universe, so that if Kurt ever went to Earth, he'd encounter Harrison Ford down there."

"So, yeah. Blade Runner was a constant influence to us during the making of this film. And also thematically, Blade Runner is very much about the machine that becomes as human as it possibly can be, Rutger Hauer's character, whereas this movie is about the man who becomes as machine-like as the military can make him. So in a way, both Kurt and Rutger are looking for their humanity.

Both Blade Runner and Soldier are owned by Warner Brothers.

Timeline
199?
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Blade Runner Origins #6 (pg. 11-13)
Blade Runner Origins #7 (pg. 12-18)

1996
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Soldier Chapter 1 (0:00:00 - 0:01:48)

2000
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Blade Runner 2019 #2 (pg. 1)
Blade Runner 2019 #8 (pg. 1)
Free Comic Book Day: Blade Runner 2019 #1 (pg. 1-4)

2001
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Soldier Chapter 1 (0:01:49 - 0:02:43)

2004
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Soldier Chapter 1 (0:02:44 - 0:03:13)
Soldier Chapter 14 (0:45:05 - 0:45:29)

2007
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Blade Runner Origins #1 (pg. 1-4)

2008
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Soldier Chapter 1 (0:03:15 - 0:04:04)
Blade Runner Origins #10 (pg. 1-13)
Blade Runner Origins #7 (pg. 10)

2009
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Free Comic Book Day: Blade Runner 2029/Origins #1, "Blade Runner Origins"

July 31
Free Comic Book Day: Blade Runner 2019 #1 (pg. 5-8)
Blade Runner Origins #2 (pg. 1-2)

August 1
Blade Runner Origins #1 (pg. 5-18)
Blade Runner Origins #2 (pg. 3-4)
Blade Runner Origins #1 (pg. 19-22)
Blade Runner Origins #2 (pg. 5-22)

August 2
Blade Runner Origins #3
Blade Runner Origins #4

????
Blade Runner Origins #5
Blade Runner Origins #6 (pg. 1-11, 14-22)
Blade Runner Origins #7 (pg. 1-9, 11, 18-22)
Blade Runner Origins #8
Blade Runner Origins #9
Blade Runner Origins #10 (pg. 14-22)
Blade Runner Origins #11 (pg. 19-20)
Blade Runner Origins #11 (pg. 1-18, 21-22)
Blade Runner Origins #12 (pg. 1-6, 13-16, 19)
Blade Runner Origins #12 (pg. 7-13, 16, 18, 20-22)

2011
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Blade Runner 2029 #7 (pg. 1-3)

2012
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Soldier Chapter 1 (0:04:05 - 0:04:32)

2013
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Soldier Chapter 2 (0:04:33 - 0:04:57)
Free Comic Book Day: Blade Runner 2019 #1 (pg. 9-12)

2015
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Blade Runner: Tokyo Nexus #1
Blade Runner: Tokyo Nexus #2
Blade Runner: Tokyo Nexus #3
Blade Runner: Tokyo Nexus #4

2017
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Blade Runner 2029 #1 (pg. 1-5)

2018
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Blade Runner 2039 #7 (pg. 1-8, 15)

2019
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Blade Runner 2019 #1
Blade Runner 2019 #2 (pg. 2-22)
Blade Runner 2019 #3
Blade Runner 2019 #4
Blade Runner 2019 #12 (pg. 1)
Blade Runner 2029 #10 (pg. 22)

November 19
Blade Runner: The Final Cut Chapter 1 (0:00:00 - 0:02:57)
Blade Runner: The Final Cut Chapter 2 (0:02:58 - 0:04:31)
Blade Runner: The Final Cut Chapter 3 (0:04:32 - 0:07:25)
Blade Runner: The Final Cut Chapter 4 (0:07:26 - 0:11:17)
Blade Runner: The Final Cut Chapter 5 (0:11:18 - 0:12:58)
Blade Runner: The Final Cut Chapter 6 (0:12:59 - 0:15:40)
Blade Runner: Enhanced Edition Act I

November 20
Blade Runner: The Final Cut Chapter 6 (0:15:41 - 0:16:57)
Blade Runner: The Final Cut Chapter 7 (0:16:58 - 0:22:38)
Blade Runner: Enhanced Edition Act II
Blade Runner: The Final Cut Chapter 8 (0:22:39 - 0:25:04)
Blade Runner: The Final Cut Chapter 9 (0:25:05 - 0:27:57)
Blade Runner: The Final Cut Chapter 10 (0:27:58 - 0:30:21)
Blade Runner: The Final Cut Chapter 11 (0:30:22 - 0:36:18)
Blade Runner: Enhanced Edition Act III
Blade Runner: The Final Cut Chapter 12 (0:36:19 - 0:41:29)
Blade Runner: The Final Cut Chapter 13 (0:41:30 - 0:42:23)
Blade Runner: The Final Cut Chapter 14 (0:42:24 - 0:45:55)
Blade Runner: The Final Cut Chapter 15 (0:45:56 - 0:48:44)
Blade Runner: The Final Cut Chapter 16 (0:48:45 - 0:55:18)
Blade Runner: The Final Cut Chapter 17 (0:55:19 - 0:57:26)
Blade Runner: The Final Cut Chapter 18 (0:57:27 - 0:59:44)
Blade Runner: The Final Cut Chapter 19 (0:59:45 - 1:01:49)
Blade Runner: The Final Cut Chapter 20 (1:01:50 - 1:03:17)
Blade Runner: Enhanced Edition Act IV
Blade Runner: The Final Cut Chapter 21 (1:03:18 - 1:07:43)
Blade Runner: The Final Cut Chapter 22 (1:07:44 - 1:12:39)
Blade Runner: The Final Cut Chapter 23 (1:12:40 - 1:12:50)
Blade Runner: Enhanced Edition Act V

November 21
Blade Runner: The Final Cut Chapter 23 (1:12:51 - 1:16:13)
Blade Runner: The Final Cut Chapter 24 (1:16:14 - 1:20:12)
Blade Runner: The Final Cut Chapter 25 (1:20:13 - 1:22:34)
Blade Runner: The Final Cut Chapter 26 (1:22:35 - 1:27:07)
Blade Runner: The Final Cut Chapter 27 (1:27:08 - 1:28:44)
Blade Runner: The Final Cut Chapter 28 (1:28:45 - 1:34:01)
Blade Runner: The Final Cut Chapter 29 (1:34:02 - 1:56:53)
Blade Runner: The Final Cut Chapter 30 (1:56:54 - 1:41:12)
Blade Runner: The Final Cut Chapter 31 (1:41:12 - 1:42:36)
Blade Runner: The Final Cut Chapter 32 (1:42:37 - 1:44:31)
Blade Runner: The Final Cut Chapter 33 (1:44:32 - 1:45:55)
Blade Runner: The Final Cut Chapter 34 (1:45:56 - 1:49:04)

November 22
Blade Runner: The Final Cut Chapter 35 (1:49:05 - 1:52:21)

2020
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Blade Runner: Black Out 2022 (0:06:47 - 0:08:26)
Blade Runner 2019 #6 (pg. 1-2)
Blade Runner: Black Locus #2 (pg. 20)

2021
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Blade Runner 2019 #11 (pg. 4-5)
Blade Runner 2029 #7 (pg. 9-12)

2022
May
Blade Runner 2019 #10 (pg. 1-2)
Blade Runner: Black Out 2022 (0:04:42 - 0:05:37)
Blade Runner: Black Out 2022 (0:00:58 - 0:04:41)
Blade Runner: Black Out 2022 (0:05:38 - 0:06:46)
Blade Runner: Black Out 2022 (0:08:16 - 0:08:26) (Audio Only)
Blade Runner: Black Out 2022 (0:08:27 - 0:12:48)
Blade Runner: Black Out 2022 (0:00:00 - 0:00:57)
Blade Runner: Black Out 2022 (0:12:49 - 0:13:14)

2023
March
Blade Runner: Revelations

2026
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Blade Runner 2019 #5
Blade Runner 2019 #6 (pg. 3-22)
Blade Runner 2019 #7 (pg. 5-8, 11-12, 19-20)
Blade Runner 2019 #8 (pg. 4-7)
Blade Runner 2019 #7 (pg. 1-4, 9-10, 13-18, 21-22)
Blade Runner 2019 #8 (pg. 2-3, 8-22)
Blade Runner 2019 #9
Blade Runner 2019 #10 (pg. 3-22)

2027
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Blade Runner 2019 #11
Blade Runner 2019 #12 (pg. 2-22)

2029
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Free Comic Book Day: Blade Runner 2029/Origins #1, "Blade Runner 2029"
Blade Runner 2029 #1 (pg. 6-22)
Blade Runner 2029 #2
Blade Runner 2029 #3
Blade Runner 2029 #4
Blade Runner 2029 #5
Blade Runner 2029 #6
Blade Runner 2029 #7 (pg. 4-8, 13-22)
Blade Runner 2029 #8
Blade Runner 2029 #9
Blade Runner 2029 #10 (pg. 1-21)
Blade Runner 2029 #11
Blade Runner 2029 #12

203?
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Blade Runner: Black Locus 1x10, "Clair de Lune" (0:03:07 - 0:07:30)
Blade Runner: Black Locus 1x10, "Clair de Lune" (0:08:08 - 0:14:55)

2032
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Blade Runner: Black Locus #4 (pg. 7)

October 15
Blade Runner: Black Locus 1x04, "The Doll Hunt" (0:00:00 - 0:15:27)

October 16
Blade Runner: Black Locus 1x01, "City of Angels"
Blade Runner: Black Locus 1x02, "All We Are Not"

October 17
Blade Runner: Black Locus 1x03, "The Human Condition" (0:00:00 - 0:19:01)

October 18
Blade Runner: Black Locus 1x03, "The Human Condition" (0:19:02 - 0:21:32)
Blade Runner: Black Locus 1x04, "The Doll Hunt" (0:15:28 - 0:21:26)
Blade Runner: Black Locus 1x05, "Pressure"
Blade Runner: Black Locus 1x06, "The Persistence of Memory"
Blade Runner: Black Locus 1x07, "Reality"

October 19
Blade Runner: Black Locus 1x08, "The David Report" (0:01:45 - 0:17:34)
Blade Runner: Black Locus 1x08, "The David Report" (0:00:00 - 0:01:44)
Blade Runner: Black Locus 1x08, "The David Report" (0:17:35 - 0:21:36)

October 20
Blade Runner: Black Locus 1x09, "Free Will"

October 21
Blade Runner: Black Locus 1x10, "Clair de Lune" (0:00:00 - 0:03:06)
Blade Runner: Black Locus 1x10, "Clair de Lune" (0:07:31 - 0:08:07)
Blade Runner: Black Locus 1x10, "Clair de Lune" (0:14:56 - 0:19:49)

October 22
Blade Runner: Black Locus 1x10, "Clair de Lune" (0:19:50 - 0:21:26)
Blade Runner: Black Locus 1x11, "All the Best Memories"
Blade Runner: Black Locus 1x12, "Artificial Souls"

October 23
Blade Runner: Black Locus 1x13, "Time to Die" (0:00:00 - 0:17:38)

November
Blade Runner: Black Locus 1x13, "Time to Die" (0:17:39 - 0:21:27)
Blade Runner: Black Locus #1
Blade Runner: Black Locus #2
Blade Runner: Black Locus #3
Blade Runner: Black Locus #4

2034
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Soldier Chapter 2 (0:04:58 - 0:05:55)

2035
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Soldier Chapter 13 (0:42:14 - 0:42:16)
Soldier Chapter 13 (0:42:18 - 0:42:19)
Soldier Chapter 13 (0:42:21 - 0:42:21)
Soldier Chapter 13 (0:42:23 - 0:42:32)
Soldier Chapter 13 (0:42:36 - 0:42:46)
Soldier Chapter 13 (0:42:48 - 0:42:48)

2036
????
Soldier Chapter 2 (0:05:56 - 0:06:23)
Blade Runner 2036: Nexus Dawn
Soldier Chapter 3 (0:06:24 - 0:11:09)
Soldier Chapter 4 (0:11:10 - 0:15:15)
Soldier Chapter 5 (0:15:16 - 0:17:16)
Soldier Chapter 6 (0:17:17 - 0:19:27)
Soldier Chapter 7 (0:19:28 - 0:22:37)
Soldier Chapter 8 (0:22:38 - 0:25:45)
Soldier Chapter 9 (0:25:46 - 0:30:20)
Soldier Chapter 10 (0:30:21 - 0:35:00)
Soldier Chapter 11 (0:35:01 - 0:38:50)

December 25
Soldier Chapter 12 (0:38:51 - 0:40:47)

December 26
Soldier Chapter 13 (0:40:48 - 0:42:13)
Soldier Chapter 13 (0:42:17 - 0:42:17)
Soldier Chapter 13 (0:42:20 - 0:42:20)
Soldier Chapter 13 (0:42:22 - 0:42:22)
Soldier Chapter 13 (0:42:33 - 0:42:35)
Soldier Chapter 13 (0:42:47 - 0:42:47)
Soldier Chapter 13 (0:42:49 - 0:43:32)
Soldier Chapter 14 (0:43:33 - 0:44:19)

December 27
Soldier Chapter 14 (0:44:20 - 0:45:04)
Soldier Chapter 14 (0:45:30 - 0:46:38)
Soldier Chapter 15 (0:46:39 - 0:49:51)

December 28
Soldier Chapter 16 (0:49:52 - 0:52:05)
Soldier Chapter 17 (0:52:06 - 0:57:11)
Soldier Chapter 18 (0:57:12 - 1:00:04)
Soldier Chapter 19 (1:00:05 - 1:02:50)
Soldier Chapter 20 (1:02:51 - 1:04:15)
Soldier Chapter 21 (1:04:16 - 1:06:41)
Soldier Chapter 22 (1:06:42 - 1:08:31)
Soldier Chapter 23 (1:08:32 - 1:12:57)
Soldier Chapter 24 (1:12:58 - 1:14:54)
Soldier Chapter 25 (1:14:55 - 1:18:09)
Soldier Chapter 26 (1:18:10 - 1:21:32)
Soldier Chapter 27 (1:21:33 - 1:25:08)
Soldier Chapter 28 (1:25:09 - 1:29:15)
Soldier Chapter 29 (1:29:16 - 1:30:13)
Soldier Chapter 30 (1:30:14 - 1:32:14)

2038
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Blade Runner 2039 #5 (pg. 1-5)

2039
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Blade Runner 2039 #1
Blade Runner 2039 #2
Blade Runner 2039 #3
Blade Runner 2039 #4
Blade Runner 2039 #5 (pg. 6-22)
Blade Runner 2039 #6
Blade Runner 2039 #7 (pg. 9-22)
Blade Runner 2039 #8
Blade Runner 2039 #9
Blade Runner 2039 #10
Blade Runner 2039 #11
Blade Runner 2039 #12

2048
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Blade Runner 2048: Nowhere to Run

2049
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Blade Runner 2049: Memory Lab

June 30
Blade Runner 2049 Chapter 1 (0:00:00 - 0:12:35)
Blade Runner 2049 Chapter 2 (0:12:36 - 0:23:28)
Blade Runner 2049 Chapter 3 (0:23:29 - 0:35:59)

July 1
Blade Runner 2049 Chapter 3 (0:35:57 - 0:35:59) (Audio Only)
Blade Runner 2049 Chapter 3 (0:36:00 - 0:37:00)
Blade Runner 2049 Chapter 4 (0:37:01 - 0:42:49)
Blade Runner 2049 Chapter 5 (0:42:50 - 0:46:12)

July 2
Blade Runner 2049 Chapter 5 (0:46:13 - 0:49:24)
Blade Runner 2049 Chapter 6 (0:49:25 - 0:54:11)

July 3
Blade Runner 2049 Chapter 6 (0:54:12 - 0:58:35)
Blade Runner 2049 Chapter 7 (0:58:36 - 1:04:10)
Blade Runner 2049 Chapter 8 (1:04:11 - 1:15:46)

July 4
Blade Runner 2049 Chapter 9 (1:15:47 - 1:25:12)
Blade Runner 2049 Chapter 10 (1:25:13 - 1:36:14)
Blade Runner 2049 Chapter 11 (1:36:15 - 1:40:34)

July 5
Blade Runner 2049 Chapter 11 (1:40:35 - 1:50:54)
Blade Runner 2049 Chapter 12 (1:50:55 - 2:01:36)
Blade Runner 2049 Chapter 13 (2:01:37 - 2:08:39)

July 6
Blade Runner 2049 Chapter 14 (2:08:40 - 2:16:41)
Blade Runner 2049 Chapter 15 (2:16:42 - 2:27:46)
Blade Runner 2049 Chapter 16 (2:27:47 - 2:32:48)

2099
????
Blade Runner 2099 1x01, "????"** (????, 202?)
Blade Runner 2099 1x02, "????"** (????, 202?)
Blade Runner 2099 1x03, "????"** (????, 202?)
Blade Runner 2099 1x04, "????"** (????, 202?)
Blade Runner 2099 1x05, "????"** (????, 202?)
Blade Runner 2099 1x06, "????"** (????, 202?)
Blade Runner 2099 1x07, "????"** (????, 202?)
Blade Runner 2099 1x08, "????"** (????, 202?)
Blade Runner 2099 1x09, "????"** (????, 202?)
Blade Runner 2099 1x10, "????"** (????, 202?)

Viewing Order
Free Comic Book Day: Blade Runner 2029/Origins #1, "Blade Runner Origins"
Blade Runner Origins #1-12
Free Comic Book Day: Blade Runner 2019 #1
Blade Runner: Tokyo Nexus #1-12
Blade Runner 2019 #1-4
Blade Runner: The Final Cut
Blade Runner: Enhanced Edition
Blade Runner: Black Out 2022
Blade Runner: Revelations
Blade Runner 2019 #5-12
Free Comic Book Day: Blade Runner 2029/Origins #1, "Blade Runner 2029"
Blade Runner 2029 #1-12
Blade Runner: Black Locus 1x01, "City of Angels"
Blade Runner: Black Locus 1x02, "All We Are Not"
Blade Runner: Black Locus 1x03, "The Human Condition"
Blade Runner: Black Locus 1x04, "The Doll Hunt"
Blade Runner: Black Locus 1x05, "Pressure"
Blade Runner: Black Locus 1x06, "The Persistence of Memory"
Blade Runner: Black Locus 1x07, "Reality"
Blade Runner: Black Locus 1x08, "The David Report"
Blade Runner: Black Locus 1x09, "Free Will"
Blade Runner: Black Locus 1x10, "Clair de Lune"
Blade Runner: Black Locus 1x11, "All the Best Memories"
Blade Runner: Black Locus 1x12, "Artificial Souls"
Blade Runner: Black Locus 1x13, "Time to Die"
Blade Runner: Black Locus #1-4
Blade Runner 2036: Nexus Dawn
Soldier
Blade Runner 2039 #1-12
Blade Runner 2048: Nowhere to Run
Blade Runner 2049: Memory Lab
Blade Runner 2049
Blade Runner 2099 1x01, "????"** (????, 202?)
Blade Runner 2099 1x02, "????"** (????, 202?)
Blade Runner 2099 1x03, "????"** (????, 202?)
Blade Runner 2099 1x04, "????"** (????, 202?)
Blade Runner 2099 1x05, "????"** (????, 202?)
Blade Runner 2099 1x06, "????"** (????, 202?)
Blade Runner 2099 1x07, "????"** (????, 202?)
Blade Runner 2099 1x08, "????"** (????, 202?)
Blade Runner 2099 1x09, "????"** (????, 202?)
Blade Runner 2099 1x10, "????"** (????, 202?)

 

[Pro Bot]

Blade Runner 2019 is set in 2026 by #5. Talk about false advertising. I don't know why people place it as happening during the original film, or even in November 2019. It literally has no reference to those events.

 

[Pro Bot]

Arcadia

―Brochure[src] Arcadia was an idyllic Off-world colony. In 2020, Aahna Ashina read a brochure for Arcadia as a bedtime story for Cleo Selwyn.[1] Cleo kept the brochure and in 2026, went with Padraic to Hartawan, of whom she requested assistance in reaching Arcadia.[2]

bladerunner.fandom.com

Just got to this. It doesn't sound like the same Arcadia from Soldier, but it does look like it.

 

[Pro Bot]

Argentine Moons

The Argentine Moons were an Off-world colony based on a series of moons with plutonium furnaces of 1200 degrees Fahrenheit. Roy Batty was sent here during the Off-world campaigns.[1] In the "spin-off sidequel" film Soldier, Todd 3465 also participated in a 2036 campaign in the Argentine Moons.

bladerunner.fandom.com

Soldier references the Marvel Comics adaptation of Blade Runner. Interesting.

 

[Pro Bot]

Arcadia

―Brochure[src] Arcadia was an idyllic Off-world colony. In 2020, Aahna Ashina read a brochure for Arcadia as a bedtime story for Cleo Selwyn.[1] Cleo kept the brochure and in 2026, went with Padraic to Hartawan, of whom she requested assistance in reaching Arcadia.[2]

bladerunner.fandom.com

Just got to this. It doesn't sound like the same Arcadia from Soldier, but it does look like it.

Definitely a different Arcadia to Soldier because Cleo doesn't mention the planet-wide explosion on her home in Blade Runner 2039 #3 (3 years after Soldier's events). I wonder if there's any connection between Arcadia and Arcadia 234, like perhaps Arcadia 234 is a neighbouring planet for waste disposal.

 

[ScottishRyzo]

so are you certain this links in to AvP through the marvel comics?

 

[Pro Bot]

so are you certain this links in to AvP through the marvel comics?

Loosely, yes. Arcadia 234 appears in Soldier and Aliens: What If...?. An android is referred to as a replicant on two occasions in the same comic. Previous Marvel comics treat androids like replicants too, where they are trying to be left alone/want equality, basically treating them as more human. This is, of course, added on to the many easter eggs and references that already exist. Ridley Scott has implied a connection twice, but it was never 100% and there's room to doubt.

The greatest connection between the two, the Prometheus extras that discuss replicants and the events of Blade Runner, was denounced by the person who wrote it. He sent it to Ridley Scott, who had "no comment". There was absolutely a plan to connect it with Prometheus, where it would have been the Weyland-Tyrell Corporation in that film, and Peter Weyland would have had an android (replicant?) bodyguard that was the same model as Roy Batty, but that obviously never materialised past concept art.

 

[Pro Bot]

Whether I'll include Blade Runner on the AVP timeline, well... I'm not sure about that right now. I'd rather finish this timeline as a completely separate entity. There's a few contradictions between the two that hold it back from being canon.

I'm sure you could explain them away. Maybe Weyland's Global Warming reversing technology (from 2016) was expensive to maintain or got destroyed. Maybe there was Faster-Than-Light technology prior to the 2030s, but Weyland Industries found a better method and created their first FTL ship in 2036 (I think that was the year). The Predator doesn't really contradict Blade Runner. There's actually tons of normal cars in Blade Runner. It's not like it's some insanely sophisticated, Star Trek-like world, at least on Earth. It kinda just means that there's off-world colonies and replicants at the same time that post-2000s stories take place. Just because something isn't mentioned doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

Actually, according to the role-playing game guy's canon tier list (which is contradicted by the intention of the comic book and novel writers, and literally makes no sense XD), Blade Runner and Outland are on a higher canon level than Predator!!! LOL!

To quote the top comment on that page, though:

So Predator is "also separate from AVP and Alien/Prometheus". But "Weyland Yutani Report"is canon. And "WYR" mentioned events of "Fire and Stone" and "Rage War". "Out of the Shadows" & "River of Pain" are canon… which lead us to "Rage war"… "Rage War" is related to "Predator 2". "Aliens: Bughunt" is a myth or legend… But "Predator: If it bleeds" which use characters from "Bughunt" is not canon?
But "Blade runner", owned by a completely different studio, stands higher than Predator and AvP. Wow. And for some reason I listened to Tim Lebbon when he said that "Rage War" is canon…

It's funny because he claims Predator is a separate universe to AVP as well, despite the fact The Predator featured the Xenomorph tail spear from AVP and was supposed to feature Miss Yutani (from AVPR) and have time-travelling connections to Aliens... but sure, sure. I think he confused differentiating franchises and universes, because Alien, Predator and AVP are separate franchises... not separate universes.

 

[ScottishRyzo]

i'm more of a casual with these franchise but from how you laid it out it makes sense

Will definitely be having another look at this when i get further into my marvel post

 

[Zeitschiene]

Whether I'll include Blade Runner on the AVP timeline, well... I'm not sure about that right now. I'd rather finish this timeline as a completely separate entity. There's a few contradictions between the two that hold it back from being canon.

I'm sure you could explain them away. Maybe Weyland's Global Warming reversing technology (from 2016) was expensive to maintain or got destroyed. Maybe there was Faster-Than-Light technology prior to the 2030s, but Weyland Industries found a better method and created their first FTL ship in 2036 (I think that was the year). The Predator doesn't really contradict Blade Runner. There's actually tons of normal cars in Blade Runner. It's not like it's some insanely sophisticated, Star Trek-like world, at least on Earth. It kinda just means that there's off-world colonies and replicants at the same time that post-2000s stories take place. Just because something isn't mentioned doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

Actually, according to the role-playing game guy's canon tier list (which is contradicted by the intention of the comic book and novel writers, and literally makes no sense XD), Blade Runner and Outland are on a higher canon level than Predator!!! LOL!

To quote the top comment on that page, though:

It's funny because he claims Predator is a separate universe to AVP as well, despite the fact The Predator featured the Xenomorph tail spear from AVP and was supposed to feature Miss Yutani (from AVPR) and have time-travelling connections to Aliens... but sure, sure. I think he confused differentiating franchises and universes, because Alien, Predator and AVP are separate franchises... not separate universes.

What is that with Outland? Didn't know there was any connection. The 80s one?

 

[Pro Bot]

What is that with Outland? Didn't know there was any connection. The 80s one?

Yes. It uses many of the same props from the Alien series and feels VERY much like a Alien film without any aliens. There's tons of shared creatives between the two. It's more of the fact that they have very similar worlds (I'm certain Outland was intentionally modelled after the original Alien film) than having any proper connections.

 

[Pro Bot]

i'm more of a casual with these franchise but from how you laid it out it makes sense

Will definitely be having another look at this when i get further into my marvel post

If you go a little underneath the Alien timeline I've made, there's a list of connections between the two. I've missed a few, like reused sounds in Deckard's apartment from the Nostromo and quotes from Blade Runner in Alien: Covenant, but that's the essential gist of it. I should probably add images to it as well actually.

 

[Pro Bot]

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Aliens (1986) did reuse suits from Outland (1981), too. I don't consider Outland canon, but I guess the best place to hypothetically put it would be in 2124, two years after Alien, matching with release dates. There's nothing else to go off of.

 

[Pro Bot]

Finished all the comics timeline placements.

 

[Pro Bot]

There's a 2/15/32 date in Black Locus, but the show has to be set in October, so... October 15th, 2032.

 

[iceman109]

When did the world of Blade Runner split off from ours?

 

[iceman109]

@Pro Bot do you plan on doing a timeline for the book?

 

[Pro Bot]

Since a lot of people think Soldier is "unofficially" connected to Blade Runner, I decided to gather the evidence. I've never really seen it as unofficial when the screenwriter and director have both said it is, Warner Brothers own the rights to both and the Nexus-9 replicants being introduced in 2036 matches up very conveniently with the events of Soldier... but sure. A licensed spin-off is unofficial.

If we link Alien and Blade Runner, it obviously only creates more connections to Soldier.