franchise fight flick requires one of those. It’s a bonkers premise, and one could argue that a franchise vs. After all, you need to first create Xenomorphs before you can hunt them. Set deep beneath an island off the coast of Antarctica, the fight is kick-started when the Predators trick a group of lowly humans (including Lance Henriksen, brilliantly cast as the man the Alien franchise’s Bishop android was based on!) into entering the battleground so that they can be impregnated by the Face Huggers they’re literally forcing the Alien Queen to give birth to. Every 100 years, young Predators hunt the Xenomorphs for sport as a means to prove themselves worthy to their elders, with the battle highlighted in Alien vs. Anderson’s concept, which managed to make sense of the aforementioned Predator 2 Easter egg, was actually quite inspired.Īnderson’s story, which plays out like a big budget fan film, imagines that the Aliens and Predators have been locked in battle for centuries. Anderson (along with Shane Salerno) who came up with a pitch that won 20th Century Fox over. How do you bring together the villains from two entirely different franchises? Many different writers attempted to crack the code over the years, but it was Paul W.S. Hell, I feel no guilt in saying that I kind of love it. And it was way better than I remembered it being. Predator last night for the first time in 13 years. My personal opinion? I revisited Alien vs. Predator: Requiem, but you’d be hard pressed to find too many glowing reviews out there on the internet. Mind you, it’s not nearly as hated by fans as follow-up film Aliens vs.

Predator is looked back on as a disappointing misfire that did no favors to either the Xenomorphs or the Predators. Most felt at the time that both franchises deserved better, and even all these years later, Alien vs. Predator made a killing at the box office but didn’t quite do so well with critics or even hardcore fans of the two franchises.

Predator was foretold by clues that dated back many years prior, namely a comic book mash-up, an action figure two-pack, and of course, an Easter egg in Predator 2 that made a truly awesome promise: these two ugly motherfuckers exist in the same universe, y’all! Anderson brought together the two heavyweights of sci-fi/horror for a similar battle to the death. Almost exactly one year after Freddy Krueger and Jason Voorhees finally clashed up on the big screen, director Paul W.S.

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