I take it they are retconning it so that Damian is no longer born of a jackel. - The First Omen (2024) Discussion

[–] Moonglum9 (11336) a year ago

Unfortunately that is true. After receiving multiple complaints from the World Jackal Society, they decided that someone playing a part jackal who actually is 100% human is taking jobs from real Jackal/Human hybrids. That's always been a problem in Hollywood and I, for one, am glad that they are finally addressing it.

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[–] olioz (3846) a year ago

As a long time supporter of the World Jackal Society I'm more than happy about this.

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[–] Moonglum9 (11336) a year ago

Once they merge with the Allied Hyena League, that group will be too powerful to stop!

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[–] WarrenPeace (2267) 10 months ago

You ain't lion!

They will be laughing all the way to the bank.

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[–] Moonglum9 (11336) a year ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vI_Srvfms5o

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[–] Ant1238 (927) 10 months ago

Do you want an answer here or waiting to see it?

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[–] christomacin (4730) 10 months ago

It turns out, the Antichrist's mother was a hamster and his father smelled of elderberry.

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[–] Zarkoff (2392) 10 months ago

Yeah, that was a hell of a plot twist. I haven't been that blindsided since the end of the Departed.

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[–] Ace_Spade (9657) 9 months ago

African or European Antichrist?

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[–] pazuzu9 (408) 9 months ago

"It turns out, the Antichrist's mother was a hamster and his father smelled of elderberry."

...and wiper of other peoples bottoms.

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[–] christomacin (4730) 9 months ago

Thank you for that key addition.

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[–] Where (1597) 9 months ago

That was the creepiest part of the original - seeing the jackel skeleton in the coffin. This stupid movie ruins that whole storyline.

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[–] DoctorThirteen (15276) 4 months ago

I was waiting to see how they were gonna work in the jackal-mother thing - and then they just didn't bother! Ridiculous.

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[–] CalvinJarrett (495) 19 days ago

I agree Where and DoctorThirteen, dumb move to do away with the mother-as-jackal angle from the original. And it was so unnecessary. In the scene after Margaret exits her vehicle after it was t-boned, she seems to go through all nine months of pregnancy in three minutes. She also appears to be acting like a feral beast. I thought she was going to turn into a jackal right there and deliver the baby on the street. I don't know why they didn't do that and remain faithful to the 1976 classic film. Oh, I figured it out - greed for a potential sequel that nobody wants or needs.

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[–] DoctorThirteen (15276) 19 days ago

'she seems to go through all nine months of pregnancy in three minutes. She also appears to be acting like a feral beast. I thought she was going to turn into a jackal right there and deliver the baby on the street.'

That would have been awesome! 😆

'I figured it out - greed for a potential sequel that nobody wants or needs.'

👍

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[–] Zarkoff (2392) 19 days ago

I guess a Jackal demon sort of creature was the father, that's how they dealt with it. Born of a jackal, as they say in the first omen movie meant that a parent was a jackal, not necessarily a mom.

They actually dig up the mother, and find the bones of a jackal, so that doesn't really work. I enjoyed it, though, so I was willing to overlook that.

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[–] CalvinJarrett (495) 18 days ago

Exactly, Zarkoff! That scene where Thorn and the journalist played by David Warner trespass into the cemetery and exhume Damian's natural mother's corpse only to find the remnants of a jackal was utterly chilling in 1976 and every time The Omen replayed on television in the '80's and '90's. And I'm willing to bet it hasn't lost any of its punch in 2025. So for them to just eschew that brilliant bit of writing and cinematography from the original Omen was derelict in my opinion. At first I thought, "Well, they wouldn't have a prequel and we wouldn't be introduced to this lovely novitiate played by Nell Tiger Free," but then I thought they could have had it both ways by allowing her to literally turn into an animal, a jackal, right before our eyes. She could have died in the street and Sister Sylva picks up the baby, some other henchman sweeps the jackal's remains into a body bag of sorts and scene. They could have ended it right there or if they wanted to discuss Thorn coming to adopt him, fine, they could have done that

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[–] BKB (11272) 19 days ago

I see this movie on the shelf at the store I purchase my Blu Rays from and no one is moving them, so this must not be very good and the one with Liev Schrieber was garbage too

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