Spoilers Alien: Earth Spoiler Thread

[Morrus]

No, I know that, but looking at the canon sources, Prodigy doesn't even get mentioned, but the Jùtóu Combine is. I was wondering why they change.

Hawley wanted to tell his own story. He says only Alien and Aliens, plus Romulus, are canon in his mind.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

No, I know that, but looking at the canon sources, Prodigy doesn't even get mentioned, but the Jùtóu Combine is. I was wondering why they change.

There's canon and then there's canon. The Combine has never been seen or even mentioned on screen.

I can't think of a case where a filmmaker has ever felt beholden to the extended universe of a genre franchise, even if they aren't as explicit as Disney was about the Star Wars extended universe.

(This show probably did make Free League a little nuts. They just updated the Alien RPG to reflect Romulus and now have to be wondering if they need to revise the setting even more.)