#Avp alien vs predator movie#

Think of it as two struggling, formerly competing companies merging just to keep each other alive. It was a little mini-trend before reboots truly took over: The start-over with a twist, a way not only to extend one franchise, but two.

#Avp alien vs predator movie#

Jason, a film thatвЂ™s a lot worse than this movie in a very on-brand way, had come out just the year before. This was not without precedent, of course: Freddy vs. He added in some old Egyptian mythology, cast Lance Henrikson as someone named вЂњBishopвЂќ to ensure some continuity, and then got to having the monsters fight. After the ending of 1990's Predator 2В first teased the possibility of a battleВ (you could see a Xenomorph skull in a Predator'sВ trophy case), minds got racing, none more so than AndersonвЂ™s, who wrote up an extended pitchВ heвЂ™d been working on for eight years. AndersonвЂ™s, actually), who had a few hits with Mortal Kombat and Event Horizon (and had just made the first of six Resident Evil movies with his wife Milla Jovovich), was the perfect guy to make an Alien vs. Anderson's.ДЄnderson, the other Paul Anderson (the one whose movies have made more money that P.T.

Predator shouldnвЂ™t exist? James Cameron was in serious talks to do a fifth Alien film, but once he heard AVP was in production, he dropped the whole thing, saying it would, вЂњkill the validity of the franchise.В itвЂ™d be Frankenstein meets Werewolf.вЂќ (His initial idea ultimately became Ridley ScottвЂ™s Prometheus.) A monster mash might not have been Cameron's style, but it definitely wasВ Paul W.S. Why was it a big deal at the time? The best argument why Alien vs. The surprise, honestly, is that it took them that long to make it. It came out on Aug.В 13, 2004, 16 years ago. Predator, which, in many ways, feels like the distillation of the internet at that period - two intense, nostalgia-driven fanbases finally getting their wish: They foundВ out whether or not their dad can beat up your dad. The apex of this trend, or its nadir, depending on your perspective, is 2004вЂ™s Alien vs. Last time I looked, Mike Tyson was fighting a darned shark. Eventually, Freddy was fighting Jason and Batman was fighting Superman and it was mass chaos. But, this trend of pitting monsters and bad guys against each other couldnвЂ™t help but supersize in the world of internet fandom, where everybodyвЂ™s inherent polarized nature has them lining up in the corners declaring that their guy is better than your guy. Two titans facing off has been a staple of genre filmmaking for decades King Kong was fighting Godzilla in the early 1960s and Universal was pitting its classic monsters against one another two decades before that. It is human nature - though, to be fair, foremost the nature of 12-year-old prepubescent boys - to see two formidable figures and immediately think, вЂњLetвЂ™s make them fight!вЂќ Soon, the humans find themselves in quite the pickle - battling for their own lives as the Predators and aliens clash.Welcome to This Week in Genre History, where Tim Grierson and Will Leitch, the hosts of the Grierson & Leitch podcast, take turns looking back at the worldвЂ™s greatest, craziest, most infamous genre movies on the week that they were first released. A far more immediate and far more disturbing concern is evidence that suggests the aliens still exist.Д«ut an equal threat looms above: three Predators, all on the verge of manhood, are engaged in a gruesome rite of passage - every hundred years, young Predators must travel to Earth and take on a hunting ritual in order to complete the transition to adulthood or die in the process. Once there, however, the group finds more than ancient sarcophaguses and hieroglyphics rather, their discovery consists of dismembered human skeletons and fossilized remains of the alien creatures that appear to have violently burst out of their chests.

Among the icy ruins, allegedly, lies the proof of an empire predating humankind. Billionaire Charles Weyland (Lance Henriksen) assembles a drill team to investigate. Structures which pre-date the pyramid civilisations of Egypt have been discovered far beneath the Antarctic ice cap by satellites.