Another crazy fan theory? This one actually holds some water.

It’s interesting that both Ridley Scott’s Alien: Covenant and Denis Villeneuve’s Blade Runner 2049 are being released this year, because both franchises of course started off as Ridley Scott films – Alien was released in 1979, while Blade Runner came along in 1982. The two sci-fi classics deal with the idea of androids, and there are various little Easter eggs throughout Scott’s work that suggest they may actually exist within the same universe.

For example, eagle-eyed fans noticed years back that a bonus feature attached to Prometheus, plucked from Peter Weyland’s diary, seems to link Weyland to Eldon Tyrell, the Blade Runner character responsible for creating the Replicants…

I bring up this fun little connection because many fans this week believe they spotted an Engineer from Alien prequel Prometheus in the new Blade Runner 2049 trailer. Towards the beginning of the trailer, we see several humanoid-like beings in glass cases, presumably inside the walls of the Tyrell Corporation – and one of them sure looks a whole hell of a lot like an Engineer.

Check out the potential Easter egg at the 15-second mark:

What does this all mean? Perhaps nothing. But given the pre-existing connections between the Alien and Blade Runner universes, this sure is an interesting little similarity worth noting.

And who knows. Maybe there’s something to it…