Fly chronology.

But, can I chronologize (is that aword?) the Fly movies???

Lesee, the first Fly (The Fly ) came out in 1958.

The second Fly (Return of the Fly ) happens 15 years later, so is therefore set in a fictional 1973.

The third Fly (Curse of the Fly , wich actually features no fly men, but a bunch of mutated people with silly putty rashes) seems to be about yet another generation, so round figure about 20 years, making it a fictional 1993.

Now, the David Cronenberg remake came out in 1986, but can a remake be put in chronology of it's predesessor??

I propose the hypotheses, that the Brundle telepods may have been based on stolen blueprints of the DeLambre matter transmitter.

Therefore, Seth Brundle is no genius, he's a hack and a theif!!

Seth Brundle admits as much right in the film when he mentions that he's not an inventer so much as an idea man who tells other scientist to build him what he needs, and he just puts the peices together.

Well, I contend that he just translated DeLambre's work into modern components, and didn't even have the ideas!!

Aww, got mutated Sethy? Good enough for you then, you unoriginal corporate espionage creep!

The sequil (Fly II) takes place 5 years later (Brundle's mutant son has an accelerated growth rate) so would therefore be a fictional 1991.

Continuing my teleport ripoff hypothesis, and based on the events in the films, justice was aparently finally given the DeLambre family, as they have control of their patriarch's invention, and have set up a trans-continental teleport hookup from England to France.

It would seem that Martin Brundle would have rigged the telepods not to work without him, or even wiped out it's computer files.

So, it naturally follows Bartok inc.'s plans for monopolizing the technology, and ultimatly sculpting the shape of life itself, leading to word domination failed.

With Bartok out of the way, the DeLambres were obviously able to resume their plans for teleportation, and with the original machine's design.

They probably figured it couldn't work after all the hoo ha in Fly II.

If I recall right, it was Bartok himself who was turned into a mutant flesh clump at the end.

Presto, the 80's Fly movies are then a corporate espionage blueprint swipe side story of the originals (if you buy my theory that is).