Weyland-Yutani is a fictional corporation in the motion picture Alien and its sequels, often referred to simply as "The Company". This is a list of notable Fictional companies. Entries in this list must have received significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject Alien is a 1979 science fiction / Horror film directed by Ridley Scott and starring Sigourney Weaver. It is one of the corporations that runs the human colonies outside the solar system through the Extrasolar Colonization Administration, has a seat in the Interstellar Commerce Commission's Company Review Board, and also has a large presence on Earth. The Solar System consists of the Sun and those celestial objects bound to it by Gravity. EARTH was a short-lived Japanese vocal trio which released 6 singles and 1 album between 2000 and 2001
Weyland-Yutani is consistently portrayed as exhibiting the worst aspects of corporate profiteering, willing to sacrifice decency and human life in the pursuit of profit. In various portrayals of the Aliens' universe, the corporation has its hands in all aspects of space colonization and research. The corporation has consistently ordered its employees and agents to attempt to obtain living xenomorphs so that they can be exploited as a biological weapon, without regard for their obtainers' lives. The alien, also called the xenomorph, or a thing and by Ellen Ripley in a deleted scene from Alien³. Biological warfare (BW — known as a germ warfare, biological weapons and bioweaponry — is the use of any Pathogen ( Bacterium
Weyland-Yutani is a modern example of the longstanding trope of the evil megacorporation in science fiction. A literary trope (from Greek τρόπος - tropos "turn" related to the root of τρέπω - trepō "to turn to direct " Megacorporation " is a term popularized by William Gibson derived from the combination of the prefix Mega- with the word Corporation.
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Alien
The compound word "Weylan-Yutani" may be viewed at the upper left of the display screen during the ship awakening sequence and at the bottom left of a badly vibrating display screen during the planetoid landing sequence in Alien. It was also printed on the prop beer cans in the film, where it is partially visible in some scenes ("Original and Genuine Weylan-Yutani Aspen Beer - Extra Strong - Aspen Colorado"). The City of Aspen is a Home Rule Municipality that is the County seat and the most populous city of Pitkin County, Colorado, United The State of Colorado ( or chiefly by nonresidents) is a state located in the Rocky Mountain region of the United States of America.
Aliens
When James Cameron was assigned to write and direct the sequel, the role and significance of Weyland-Yutani increased greatly, becoming an indispensable element in Alien lore. James Francis Cameron (born August 16, 1954) is an Academy Award -winning Canadian - American director The original Weyland-Yutani logo was an Egyptian winged-sun emblem; it was modified to its current corporo-industrial interlocked W/Y for Aliens.
It can be viewed in various places, most prominently on the front of a big-wheel tricycle in a scene from the director's cut. A director's cut is a specially edited version of a Film, and less often TV series, Music video, commercials or Video games
Alien³
In Alien³, Weyland-Yutani's name appears on screen several times written in Japanese. is a language spoken by over 130 million people in Japan and in Japanese emigrant communities It appears once on a box of supplies as ウェイランド湯谷. The first six kana of this are part of the Japanese syllabary katakana which is used to spell foreign words, and here they spell weirando (Weyland). Kana is a general term for the syllabic Japanese scripts Hiragana (ひらがな and Katakana (カタカナ as well as the old system A syllabary is a set of written symbols that represent (or approximate Syllables which make up Words A symbol in a syllabary typically represents an optional is a Japanese Syllabary, one component of the Japanese writing system along with Hiragana, Kanji, and in some cases the Latin alphabet The second part is the Japanese name Yutani written with two kanji, which literally means "hot-water valley" in English. are the Chinese characters that are used in the modern Japanese logographic writing system along with Hiragana (ひらがな 平仮名 Katakana The corporation's name also appears in a newspaper headline where the last four kanji read kabushiki gaisha which means "joint stock corporation. "
Alien Resurrection
By the time of Alien Resurrection, An interstellar international political military force called "United Systems Military" now controls all the aspects of previous Weyland-Yutani involvement. Alien Resurrection is a science fiction released in 1997 by 20th Century Fox.
Alien vs. Predator
In Alien vs. Predator, the founder of this company (then known as Weyland Industries) is shown to be Charles Bishop Weyland. Alien vs Predator (also known as AVP) is a Science fiction film released in 2004 by 20th Century Fox. He is played by Lance Henriksen, the actor that played the android Bishop in Aliens and Alien³, suggesting that the android was modeled after him. Lance James Henriksen (born May 5 1940) is an American Actor, painter, and potter. Lance Bishop 341-B, portrayed by Lance Henriksen, is a character from the Science fiction films Aliens (1986 and Alien 3 An android is a Robot designed to resemble a human usually both in appearance and behavior In the novelization of Alien³ (released before Alien vs. Predator), it is said that the Bishop android was created by a Weyland-Yutani employee named Michael Bishop, who is seen in the third film.
Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem
In the finale of Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem, the man who called himself Colonel Stevens meets with a character named Ms Yutani, offering her a Predator gun recovered from the survivors of the explosion in Gunnison, Colorado. Aliens vs Predator Requiem (also known as AVPR) is the 2007 Science fiction film sequel to 2004 's Alien vs The historic City of Gunnison is a Home Rule Municipality that is the County seat and the most populous city of Gunnison County, Colorado
Other works
As an homage to the Alien movies, the Weyland-Yutani logo was used on some weapons in the TV series Firefly, and can be seen on a heads up display in that show's pilot episode. Alien is a 1979 science fiction / Horror film directed by Ridley Scott and starring Sigourney Weaver. Firefly is an American Science fiction Television series created by writer/director Joss Whedon, creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer A head-up display, or HUD, is any transparent display that presents data without requiring the user to look away from his or her usual viewpont In Serenity, the motion picture continuation of Firefly, the Operative's claim that the Alliance was "building a better world" echoes the slogan of Weyland-Yutani, "Building Better Worlds. Serenity is a 2005 space western Film written and directed by Joss Whedon. " (The show's creator, Joss Whedon, wrote the fourth Alien film, Alien: Resurrection. Joseph Hill " Joss " Whedon ( born June 23, 1964 in New York City is an Academy Award -nominated and Hugo Award Alien Resurrection is a science fiction released in 1997 by 20th Century Fox. )
In Whedon's series Angel, Weyland-Yutani is also named as a major client (along with Yoyodyne and News Corp) of the evil law firm Wolfram and Hart (see "Harm's Way"). Angel is an American Television series, a Spin-off of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Yoyodyne is the name of several companies both in fiction and real life News Corporation (often abbreviated to News Corp) (,,) is one of the world's largest media conglomerate companies by Market capitalisation
The firm's name also appears on the bow of a supertanker passing under the Gibraltar Bridge, near the end of an Extreme Engineering installment, on the Discovery Channel. The Gibraltar Bridge is a conceptual structure spanning the Strait of Gibraltar that would connect Europe to Africa. Extreme Engineering is a documentary Television series aired on the Discovery Channel and The Science Channel which features Discovery Channel is an American Satellite and Cable TV channel (also delivered via IPTV, Terrestrial television and
A Weyland-Yutani ship can be seen, among other crashed ships, in the Red Dwarf episode "Psirens". According to the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram, a red dwarf star is a small and relatively cool Star, of the Main sequence, either late K " Psirens " is the first episode of Science fiction Sit-com Red Dwarf Series VI and the 31st in the series run
In the 2005 game Predator: Concrete Jungle, a clip at the end shows the new current owner of Weyland and a Japanese man (presumably the CEO of the Yutani Corporation) celebrating the formation of their joint venture. They mention in a discussion something about Mr. Weyland's disappearance.
Within the Aliens vs. Predator novel series Weyland-Yutani was mentioned as the main corporation in the book War, but as for the other two novels different corporations were in charge of the events that occurred. The Aliens vs Predator novel series is a Trilogy of novels that belong to the Fictional crossover franchise of Aliens vs
Origins of name
The name "Weyland-Yutani" was created by Ron Cobb, one of the designers of the Nostromo and her crew's uniforms. Ron Cobb (born 1937 is an American cartoonist artist writer film designer and film director
| “ | One of the things I enjoyed most about Alien was its subtle satirical content. Science fiction films offer golden opportunities to throw in little scraps of information that suggest enormous changes in the world. There's a certain potency in those kinds of remarks. Weylan Yutani for instance is almost a joke, but not quite. I wanted to imply that poor old England is back on its feet and has united with the Japanese, who have taken over the building of spaceships the same way they have now with cars and supertankers. In coming up with a strange company name I thought of British Leyland and Toyota, but we couldn't use "Leyland-Toyota" in the film. British Leyland was a vehicle manufacturing company formed in the United Kingdom in 1968 as British Leyland Motor Corporation Ltd (BLMC (pronounced) is a Multinational corporation headquartered in Japan, and is currently the world's largest Automaker. Changing one letter gave me "Weylan," and "Yutani" was a Japanese neighbor of mine. | ” |
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—Ron Cobb, "The Authorized Portfolio of Crew Insignias from The United States Commercial Spaceship Nostromo Designs and Realizations" by John Mollo and Ron Cobb |
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The original spelling of the Company's name was Weylan Yutani (note that there was no D in the name). John Mollo (born 18 March 1931 in London, England) is a British Costume designer and book Author, most known Ron Cobb (born 1937 is an American cartoonist artist writer film designer and film director At no time in Alien nor in the portfolio was the name of the Company spelled with a D. Alien is a 1979 science fiction / Horror film directed by Ridley Scott and starring Sigourney Weaver. This was changed by the time of Aliens to "Weyland-Yutani. This article is about the film for the video games see Aliens (Square computer game and Aliens (arcade game. "