The Omen

On the data. Six films and one television series across three continuities. The original run is the four films from 1976 to 1991, and it is dated almost entirely by Damien's age rather than by captions: five, then twelve, then thirty two. Only the second film carries a stated interval, a card reading seven years later after a prologue set a week on from the first film. That gives twenty in-story years across five real ones, which is why the trilogy feels so compressed in production and so stretched in story. The First Omen, made in 2024, is a prequel to the 1976 film rather than a remake or a reboot. It opens on the clearest caption in the franchise, Rome, 1971, and it closes on Margaret giving birth to the child who is handed to Robert Thorn to replace his wife's stillborn son. That is precisely the situation the 1976 film begins from, which is why it belongs after the original rather than before it. Damien, the 2016 A&E series, is a fourth continuity in effect. It is a direct sequel to the 1976 film and it explicitly ignores Omen II, The Final Conflict and Omen IV, picking up with Damien as a thirty year old war photographer with no memory of his childhood. A&E cancelled it in May 2016 after ten episodes. The 2006 remake stands alone. It produced no sequels and has nothing to do with The First Omen, despite both being twenty first century entries under the same studio. Titles are a persistent problem here. The second film's screen title is Damien – Omen II; Damien: Omen II with a colon is a marketing variant. The third film's screen title is simply The Final Conflict, with Omen III added only later for home video, so the opening credits carry no number at all. Two different films are titled The Omen, from 1976 and 2006. We have not been able to confirm whether the 1976 film opens with a captioned date, or whether the stellar alignment date in The Final Conflict appears on screen or only in dialogue, so neither is quoted here.

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