The Omen series timeline ramble

The Omen series has a notoriously random timeline. The first came out in 1976, when it appears to take place and Damien is about five years old. So far so good. The second movie, Damien: The Omen II, came out in 1978 where Damien is supposed to be twelve years old, but the movie appears to still be in 1978, not some future year. The third and final installment in the official trilogy, The Omen III: The Final Conflict, came out in 1981 and Damien is thirty-two. It is definitely supposed to take place at some point in the early 1980s, not only because it very much aesthetically looks like that is when it is, but because there is a reference during a scene where he is being interviewed to Damien doing something in adulthood in 1978, the year that the movie where he was twelve came out.

The novelizations of the books have the first one take place in the 1950s, which makes sense as someone who is thirty-two in 1981 would have been born in 1949. The straight-to-television sequel, The Omen IV: Awakening, came out in 1991. *potential spoilers for The Final Conflict* It is about a child presumably conceived between Damien and a character that he has sex with in The Final Conflict, though the character is not stated to be pregnant in that movie, and the daughter, Delia, is eight in the movie, but I have not seen it, so I cannot say exactly when it takes place or how it deals with the time jump. *spoilers over* There was also a remake of the first one that came out in 2006 and appears to take place in around 2006. The prequel that came out in 2024, The First Omen, takes place in 1971, which also makes sense for a child that would have been five in 1976.

I'm going to treat the theatrical films as canon over the novelizations, remake, or television sequel, so I'm going to say that Damien was born in 1971. If they were to remake the sequels and give it a proper timeline, he would be twelve in 1983 and thirty-two in 2003. With the overlap of 1980s and early 2000s nostalgia, I think they should follow up the prequel with remakes of the sequels in a proper timeline. If they do well enough, they could even have Damien spawn again and have it take place in the modern day again because the child would be a young adult by now.