Lovecraft and Erich von Däniken, following a group of explorers funded by Charles Bishop Weyland (played by the legendary Lance Henriksen) as they venture into a long-forgotten pyramid buried under Antarctic ice. Like several other Alien-affiliated spin-offs, the plot borrowed elements from H.P. This led the director to abandon Resident Evil: Apocalypse in order to focus on what he thought was the bigger project, recruiting Shane Salerno to cowrite the script. Anderson showed up with a pitch powered by concept art by famed creature designer Patrick Tatopoulos that 20 th Century Fox finally decided to greenlight production. During this time, AVP passed through the hands of several accomplished writers and filmmakers like Peter Briggs and Roland Emmerich. Unfortunately, despite the crossover franchise finding massive success in the world of comics and videogames, a proposed film would become trapped in development hell for over a decade, with Fox unsure of what direction to take the story. This simple easter egg sparked years of rumors that we’d finally see a version of this epic confrontation on the big screen. While AVP comics have been published since the late 80s, a cinematic adaptation was originally teased back in 1990, when a Xenomorph skull showed up at the end of the underrated Predator 2. That’s why it’s not surprising that it took so long for this crossover to hit theaters. Of course, the deeper you dig, the more you’ll realize that these franchises are fundamentally different in ways that really make you appreciate how writers had to creatively bend and twist decades of lore in order to combine the cosmic horror of Xenomorphs with the ritualistic bloodshed of the Yautja. After all, both intellectual properties are conveniently owned by the same parent company and occupy equally iconic spaces in popular culture (they’re also simultaneously aliens and predators, adding to the similarities). Anderson’s ambitious crossover, Alien vs Predator.Īt first glance, Alien vs Predator sounds like an incredibly obvious idea. In this edition of The Silver Lining, we’ll be discussing Paul W.S.
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