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It helps to get some useful perspective. The concept, while intriguing, is not entirely new. Quite recently, Jason Friday the 13th series and Freddy the Nightmare on Elm Street did battle as studios attempted to milk every last drop of revenue from waning sequels.

Three-quarters of a century ago, Universal pictures became what would be the greatest horror film studio with Frankenstein, Dracula, Wolfman, The Mummy, and Creature from the Black Lagoon among others. When it became apparent that each franchise was running its course, the natural thought was to pair their monsters in a showdown.

Most prominent was Frankenstein Meets Wolfman. So it is no wonder that a clip from that very film shows up at the beginning of Alien vs. Set on present day earth, a satellite detects a thermal event in Antarctica which triggers a hastily assembled scientific expedition financed by the Weyland Corporation. Its enigmatic head is Charles Bishop Weyland Lance Henriksen who wants to leave a legacy as his health begins to fail. Unfortunately, the explorers trigger a sequence of events including the birth of new Aliens via the dreaded facehuggers and the arrival of a group of Predator warriors ready for a new hunt.

As the body count rises, the Aliens multiply in number and thus a battle royal is ready to commence. Will there be any humans left? How come nobody told the Nostromo crew in the first Alien movie about these critters? And what happened to the Henriksen character's namesake who reappears in the guise of Bishops 1 and 2 in later films?

So many questions are left unanswered. The plot does have plenty of holes and glosses quickly, almost too quickly through the story as characters we barely get to know or want to care about quickly perish.

Fans of both film series will appreciate the multitude of references to the Alien life cycle and Predator code. There are a couple of inconsistencies which may nag the purists such as the rapid maturation of the Aliens from egg to adult in record time, and the ease with which the dwindling humans understand the whole scenario.

In fact, not only do the humans quickly realize who the Aliens are, namely the ultimate quarry for the Predator hunter warriors, but that human beings have been used like cattle to perpetuate the Aliens every years as game for the returning Predator race. Note that the film Predator 2 hinted at this very concept with a brief glimpse of an Alien skull inside a Predator spaceship. Predator also serves as a kind of prequel to the Alien films and a kind of sequel to the Predator films in its timeline.

Sanaa Lathan is actually good in the role of the guide and it is possible a better script and strong direction would have brought echoes of Ripley from the Alien films of old. The set design of the pyramid is fascinating though confusing with all of its ever changing mazes. The creature effects are not bad though reserved for the latter half of the movie. Anderson Event Horizon does a serviceable job here and the PG 13 rating is designed for all those fans of the video games and comics featuring the Alien and Predator battles.

Business should be brisk though limited to those loyalists who will find this installment diverting and certainly not the disappointment of Alien 3, or is it we've just lowered the bar a bit more? FAQ Why did Scar kill Quinn he was unarmed, isn't that dishonorable? How did Lex shove her hand down into an alien's newly decapitated head and not lose it?

Why is it so critical to stop the Aliens? Even if they reach the surface, what are they going to do? In fact, we get a sneaking suspicion he might not have much interest in any of the Alien films he didn't work on. Scott didn't have any time for the theory that each android in the series was being named in alphabetical order — Ash, Bishop, Call, David Walter it turns out the last two were named after producers Walter Hill and David Giler.

The Alien vs Predator films, and even James Cameron's much-loved Aliens , are unlikely to ever get a look in. While Scott remains on board he's already planning on shooting the Covenant sequel next year , it's safe to say that Alien vs Predator will be ignored.

And even if Fox would like to retain links between AvP and the main Alien canon, the longer Scott keeps making films, the harder that is likely to be. And let's face it, the two Alien vs Predator films are rubbish. Better let them sink into the depths of non-canonicity to be forgotten. Want up-to-the-minute entertainment news and features?

Type keyword s to search. Author Marc Cerasini wrote a novelization of the movie, notably including a higher level of violence than was included in the film.

Although no direct comic book adaptation was produced, Dark Horse Comics did publish an original tie-in comic that incorporated elements from the film's back story into its plot, titled Alien vs.

Predator: Thrill of the Hunt. A second comic, Alien vs. We Lose in fact a reprint of several existing Dark Horse short stories , was packaged exclusively with the Unrated Edition's home video release. Harald Kloser 's score was released as a soundtrack album.

Design Studio Press published a behind-the-scenes book looking at the creature effects of the film, titled AVP: Alien vs. Inkworks also produced a set of trading cards for the film, including a limited edition subset that incorporated samples of fabric from costumes actually worn by the actors in the movie. Two video games based on the film were developed for mobile phones, the first published by Superscape, and the second by Wicked Witch Software.

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Kieran Bew Mikkel Carsten Voigt Boris Adrian Bouchet Juan Ramirez Andy Lucas Supervisor Liz May Brice Technician Glenn Conroy Karl Eoin McCarthy Sacrificial Maiden Karima Adebibe Grid Tom Woodruff, Jr. Ian Whyte. Predator: God's Truth. Bruno's wife Isabella shoots the Yautja in the eye, causing his blood to splatter on her and her infant son Hunter. The now one-eyed Yautja makes a hasty escape, leaving behind some of his equipment. Failing to kill himself, shamed by defeat and having exposed his race to the humans, the Yautja, now known as Scarface , is exiled by his clan to a planet inhabited by deadly alien creatures.

Predator: Concrete Jungle. Bayou Lafourche, Louisiana: A Yautja mistaken for the legendary local Gollywomp hunts three musk rat trappers in the bayou. His artifacts remain with a trapper. Predator: Strange Roux. Predator: The Pride at Nghasa. Predator: Demon's Gold. Hiroshima, Japan: Atomic bombs are dropped on Hiroshima, Japan. According to later US government records, the heat and conflict attract Yautja. Predator: The Hunted City.

He attacks the offices of American National Pictures and then the Atomic Drive-In where the premier of a gimmicky new sci-fi film in 4-D is taking place. Vietnam: A Yautja hunts during the Vietnam War and the South Vietnamese officer from the famous footage of the execution of a North Vietnamese prisoner is later accused of committing a bloody massacre which was actually a Predator attack.

Initially thought to be caused by a nuclear detonation or an airbust from a meteor, was later theorized by Sebastian de Rosa to be caused by a Yautja self-destruct device. The investigation was in charge of Colonel Alexander Woods. Predator: Captive Alien vs Predator film and Novelization. All of Dutch's team are killed one-by-one by the Yautja before being faced and killed by Dutch. Fleener Creek, OR: During the heat record in the region not experienced since , a Yautja returns to the area after 30 years and faces convicted murderer James McCutcheon, local townspeople, local sheriff Kelly Mathis, and Buddy Wilcox, who faced it 30 years earlier.

The military officer in charge of the operations dealing with the Predators is Major General Philips from the Guatemala incident. Predator: Concrete Jungle comic and novel. A Russian team is also sent to do the same. The teams face each other and the Yautja. Weyland Industries Timeline. The incident is investigated by US intelligence agents R. Goode and K. Lexington, KY: The ex-South Vietnamese officer who witnessed and was blamed for a Predator attack in is secretly killed for his knowledge by unknown CIA agents in Lexington, KY, where he had since relocated and worked as a horse trainer.

The forces at Cole are lead by Colonel Athelry and Sergeant Coates who, along with a military scientist, briefly get to study the Predator's ship. Nakai faces the beast in the volcanic region called El Malpais. He is found with the bodies of the drug-runners strung-up and blamed for it by the army. Virginia: Cantrell gets a secret trial and accuses the army of knowing the truth and trying to cover it up. Cantrell's story reminds him of the case of the South Vietnamese officer accused of the same thing in He investigates.

A mysterious source leaves him a package with the journal of Jean Brunaud from WWI, detailing his encounters and stories of the Yautja. Tucson, Arizona : A government Task Force made up of special agents brought in under false pretenses based on their unknowing interaction with Yautja hunts the Canyon Killer. The team is lead by an agent called "Blondie" and scientist named Wanda, who are the only ones who know the truth about the assignment.

Under Cross' leadership, the inmates battle the Yautja. Note: By Aug , there have been unsolved Predator-style killings around the country.

The crimes have come to be called "Canyon Killings" after a well-publicized incident in an Arizona canyon where some hunters are killed and decapitated by the unknown "Canyon Killer". Other Canyon Killer incidents prior to this time include: Angola, Africa: 1 an incident in Angola, Africa some years earlier where the vigilante Cross was working as a mercenary. His unit's sweeper team faced an unexplained attack by an unknown number of Yautja. Despite his efforts, they haven't been able to capture a Yautja alive and others always come for the body.

Tanaka faces the Yautja in a duel near Nikko, Japan, fulfilling the prophecy of Shinto monks years earlier. Inspector Mitsugi of the Tokyo Police investigates the incidents and calls in the army.

General Miyamoto Kataro a former student of Tanaka's aids him during the incident. It is also hunted by a fellow-Yautja law enforcer from space. Cibola County, New Mexico: Enoch Nakai, now working as a gas station attendant after his Yautja-related incident, talks to his grandfather who shares a story and evidence that Enoch's great-grandfather also witnessed a Yautja attack 75 years earlier.

Nakai is offered a job working for the government tracking the Yautja by a mysterious, blonde, mustached agent calling himself John Smith who could possibly be "Blondie". Guatemala, South America: A crazed Yautja runs rampant in the area where Dutch faced the Yautja in and his brother fought one in Two military units and an expensive military robot are sent in after it; then Detective Schaefer is coerced by General Homer Philips back into the country to face it.

The President of the country, known as El Presidente, says his people have known of and faced the beasts for centuries. Predator: Dark River. The unit has detailed information about the Yautja and records of the Guatemala incident. Off the Southern Coast of Chille: A Yautja ship lands in the ocean several miles from one of the archipelagos that make up the South Chillean Coast attracted by a volcanic rift that has caused unnaturally warm waters and opened up a fissure into undersea crevices with new creatures to hunt.

The Chillean authorities grant the organization a two-day window of opportunity, before sending in the Chillean Navy, the U. Military, the CIA and others who will probably follow.

One of the team receives top secret deep cover emergency training based on the organization's cumulative knowledge of the Xenomorphs. The creature faces Cromartie's team, including Cromartie, special agent Maria Theresa O'Higgins Pavez, Agents Brahm and Matteson and one of the new unknown life-forms from the fissure that it had been hunting. Colonel Alexander Woods submits his final report regarding an unexplained nuclear explosion off Bouvet Island in , and those believed responsible.

The results are inconclusive. Predator and novelization. Nevada Desert: Billionaire Tyler Stern, who has created a Yautja-specific biosphere in the middle of the Nevada Desert, traps a one-armed Yautja within it. Corporal Faulkner is employed as security. Stern and his staff face the creature. Yellowstone National Park: Naturalist Maya Bergstrom, ex-combat photographer George Maxwell, and a nameless government agent encounter three Bad Blood Yautja on a rampage, who are in turn hunted by an age-old Predator sent to stop them.

Bergstrom uncover's evidence regarding the true reason Yautja have come to Earth so often and the origins of the species' involvement with Earth. Days after his 14th birthday, Peter Weyland is granted a Method Patent for a synthetic trachea constructed entirely of synthetically-engineered stem cells. It is his 12th registered patent to date. The icebreaker Piper Maru is dispatched to investigate. Max Stafford starts combing the globe looking for various experts for the expedition.

Several Facehuggers and the Predalien escape, invading the town and creating more Xenomorphs. A lone Yautja arrives and fights the Xenomorphs in a battle with the a group of local people caught in the middle.

The United States government gets involved with the attempt to contain the situation in an extreme way. A recovered Yautja shoulder cannon is delivered to a woman identified as "Ms. Yutani ". Predator: Requiem. Iraq: A U. Army unit stumbles across a fight between a lone Yautja and a lone Xenomorph while patrolling a small town in Iraq.

Weyland Industries helicopters arrive to cover up the incident afterward and confiscate photographic evidence of the creatures. Predator: Sand Trap. Africa: Paramilitary security specialists for Graham Directive Security lead by man named Thorpe face off against a group of deadly Yautja from the 'Killer' clan in a third-world African nation, as the Killers themselves are stalked by a more traditional Yautja.

Thorpe has prior knowledge of the Yautja from a previous encounter. Predator: Prey to the Heavens. Eight individuals are abducted from earth, dropped on an unknown planet and hunted by three Super Predators. The human members are all trained in combat except a doctor who hides a terrible secret. They fight the Yautja while surviving other beings shipped to the planet.

They come to learn they are being hunted for sport and that the planet works as a game reserve. Weyland Corp launches first industrialized space mission to install solar panels that align and move in Earth's orbital plane but at an axial tilt, imitating a perpetual summer solstice. The renewable energy gathered in the months following this expedition made Peter Weyland his first billion.

Following Weyland's success with solar panels, Weyland Corp receives funding from a trio of major venture capital firms. Using a precursor to the atmospheric processor of his own invention, Peter Weyland is able to generate a localized synthetic atmosphere above the polar ice cap, effectively ending global warming. At the age of 26, Sir Peter Weyland becomes one of the youngest people to ever achieve knighthood. Sir Peter Weyland is honored with the Nobel Prize in Science for his extraordinary atmospheric work over the polar ice cap.

Using capital from his success, Weyland acquires copyrights to technology developed by NASA's innovative but poorly funded Project Prometheus. With Weyland's significantly augmented funding for the project, JIMO became a reality and proves the existence of simple life in Europa's ocean.

A Predator spaceship crashes in Mexico, and while Project Stargazer seizes the Fugitive Predator and its equipment, they miss a few items - the alien's mask and right wristband, along with a Cloaking sphere - taken by Army sniper Quinn McKenna , who sends it to the United States.

Once Quinn's son Rory manages to figure out the workings of a Predator wrist computer, it leads to the arrival of the Upgrade Predator. Weyland Corp earns patent number 8,, for Method and Apparatus for cybernetic individuals for use in scientific and industrial environments.

Weyland military engineers make first significant improvement to rifling technology since the 19th century, tripling speed and doubling accuracy of projectiles. Exact rifling pattern and twist rate remain classified. Weyland Corp makes first foray into the luxury goods market with its Holographic Environment Simulator. It is the first HES able to accurately recreate the aesthetic, mood and sounds of any place in the known world, as well as provide live video feed from any calibrated receiver.

Weyland Corp introduces first rifle able to track targets from over kilometers away, as well as determine target's health, physique and whether they can be locked down. Weyland manufactures the first advanced android prototype model of its kind. He is affectionately called David, a name Sir Peter Weyland had initially reserved for his own human son.

Tokyo, Japan: Gideon Suhn Lee formerly known as Li Yat Sen , trillionaire and possessor of a crashed Yautja ship, uses Yautja-based technology and mercenaries to cause conflict around the world, hoping to draw out a new Yautja hunting party so he can go on prolonging his year old life using their body parts.

His activities draw the attention of journalist Becka McBride and, when he accidentally unleashes a pair of Xenomorphs form the ship, a new Yautja hunting party. Weyland Corp earns patent number 9,, for a chemical composition of classified properties able to almost perfectly replicate the biological features and texture of human skin. Weyland Corp earns patent number 10,, for Method and Apparatus for self-adjusting crosshairs that auto-process windage, Coriolis effect, trajectory, etc.

Weyland privatizes NASA's famous Kepler mission, increases its funding fold and within the year discovers 6, more bio-compatible planets. Weyland makes significant adjustments to the David android prototype , facilitating David's first interaction with humans. This initial meeting is very promising. The search for a practical application begins. Weyland Corp earns patent number 11,, for Method and Apparatus for a device that enhances the capacity of an extraterrestrial planetary environment to support life; effectively the first fully-automated atmospheric processor.

Weyland acquires the organization as well as their Large Hadron Collider and other facilities. After years of litigation, Weyland wins the David patent lawsuit against the Japanese start-up Yutani Corporation , effectively protecting the investments of both Weyland Corp and its shareholders.

Weyland Corp earns patent number 12,, for Method and Apparatus for a device that can initiate, monitor and terminate hypersleep. Hypersleep Capsules HCs revolutionize space travel permitting increasingly longer, more advanced missions and enabling unprecedented discovery. Humans have been using the technology that he left behind on Earth in to kill other Yautja and to wage mob warfare. The warring mob factions all pay tribute to Lucretia Borgia , daughter of Hunter and granddaugther of Bruno, who Scarface faced in Scarface battles the mob in order to recover the Yautja technology.

A man called Mr. Weyland buys out Borgia Industries. Luna Terraforming begins on Luna with plans for multiple settlements. These major acquisitions significantly bolsters multinational defense, security, and aerospace technology holdings. Weyland scientists discover the inverse relationship between velocity and the flow of time making the long sought-after concept of faster than light travel a reality.

The search for practical application begins. Weyland creates new 5. After android regulations are lifted, the third generation David is deployed internally in order to test human acceptance of cybernetics individuals.

Results are encouraging. Weyland Corp opens several new offices across the globe expanding corporate presence to Greece, Antarctica, El Salvador, and South Africa to name a few. Weyland Corp launches the Explorers Academy—an alternative grad school for underprivileged college students interested in the fields of biotech, nanotech, cybernetics and terraforming. Top graduates of the program are offered positions at Weyland Corp. Weyland astronomers note an area of space appearing very rich in minerals and other natural resources.

Weyland expected to travel there within the century. Weyland Corp earns patent number 13,, for Method and Apparatus for an add-on feature to Weyland Storm capable of compensating for composition, density, pressure and refractive index of any atmosphere.

GJ Cc: Using the Weyland Atmospheric Processor , the first functional and breathable atmosphere is produced on planet GJ Cc clearing the way for further terraforming activities on other planets. Birmingham, England: The organization known as Spearhead is formed to combat Yautja with state of the art technology.

At the same time, Subotai, an immortal Japanese samurai, decides on a final showdown with the Yautja. BUT the novel Predator: Forever Midnight states that in it has been "nearly a hundred years without recorded incident" of any Predator appearances.