Following the emergence of a Predator-born Alien on a Predator scout ship, the tussle with it inadvertedly causes the craft to crashland on Earth, unleashing the seeds of an Alien horde. A veteran Predator receives a distress signal and gears up, departing to eradicate the infestation. Such is the premise of Aliens Vs. Predator: Requiem,… Read More Hunter of the Cosmos — Aliens Vs. Predator: Requiem
Paul W.S. Anderson’s Alien Vs. Predator script bore influence from the very first comic books bearing the title, namely Aliens Vs. Predator: Prey, with the pyramid concept inspired by early drafts and concept art for Alien. The director also extrapolated from Predator 2‘s aesthetic. As he explained, “one of the things that struck me was… Read More Hunter of the Cosmos — Alien Vs. Predator
Content Warning: the article includes discussion and explicit pictures of Alien hybrid genitalia, which may be problematic for readers of a certain sensibility. “You are a beautiful, beautiful butterfly.” As an unexpected side effect of the cloning process, the Alien Queen stops producing eggs and develops a womb-like sac, out of which an abomination, an… Read More StarBeast — Alien: Resurrection, the Newborn
Preliminary drafts of Evolution by Don Jakoby elaborated the premise of the story with a much more serious tone compared to the final film. Upon being hired for the project, director Ivan Reitman requested screenwriters David Diamond and David Weissman to shift the script into a comedic adventure sci-fi story, in the same vein as… Read More Darwinian Nightmare
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Whilst Alien Vs. Predator marked the first film appearance of an Alien birthed from a Predator host — abbreviated in ‘Predalien’ — the concept had already been explored in the eponymous comics and video games, starting from the 1995 run Aliens Vs. Predator: Duel. Shortly after the publication of that series, freelance concept artist and… Read More StarBeast — Aliens Vs. Predator: Requiem, the Predalien
Amalgamated Dynamics returned bring the creatures of Aliens Vs. Predator: Requiem to life. Accompanying them in the task was Hydraulx — directors Greg and Colin Strause’s own visual effects company, which provided digital counterparts for all the Alien creatures. Requiem would introduce the so-called ‘Predalien’, an Alien born from a Predator host, which only had… Read More StarBeast — Aliens Vs. Predator: Requiem
Alien Vs. Predator was born as a successful comic book series by Dark Horse, which pitted the two iconic film Monsters against each other within an organic backstory. When the film version was being written, Dan O’Bannon, the original writer of Alien, suggested to the filmmakers a new twist on the relationship between the two titular creatures. The… Read More StarBeast — Alien Vs. Predator
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Amalgamated Dynamics returned to provide the creature effects for the fourth chapter in the Alien series, complete with the usual tight production schedule. Tom Woodruff Jr. explained to Cinefex: “production told us that, due to Sigourney’s schedule, we would have to be ready to start shooting with a very short prep. We did a breakdown… Read More StarBeast — Alien: Resurrection
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