Scanners - Watch Order: Scanners Trilogy
The core Scanners trilogy follows the main storyline established in Cronenberg's original film, continuing with direct character connections and expanding the mythology of the scanner underground. Scanners II features the son of the original protagonists, while Scanners III explores new characters within the same universe.
This watch order focuses on the primary Scanners narrative without the cop-focused spin-offs, providing a more cohesive experience for viewers interested in the central scanner mythology and corporate conspiracy elements that define the franchise.
Scanners
After a man with extraordinary, and frighteningly destructive, telepathic abilities is nabbed by agents from a mysterious rogue corporation, he discovers he is far from the only possessor of such strange powers. Some of the other “scanners” have their minds set on world domination, while others are trying to stop them.
Scanners II: The New Order
A breed of humans with dangerously powerful telepathic abilities -- the scanners -- are being recruited by a corrupt police commander, John Forrester, in his crusade to take over the city.
Scanners III: The Takeover
A young scanner with extraordinary telepathic powers transforms into a lethal killing machine after taking one of her father's experimental drugs.
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