Aliens-vs-Predator: Again?
Some people just can't get enough of the movie franchise turned comic book crossover turned movie franchise that is Aliens versus Predator.
And some of those people, it seems, are at Fox. The movie nerd maths geeks over at Shock Till You Drop have crunched the numbers, looked at their tea leaves, and made a phone call to an un-named Fox executive which brings them to the conclusion that a third instalment of the giant acid-filled bug thing versus freaky-mouthed dreadlock hunter series is a 'certainty'.
It seems like the law of diminishing returns ought to have kicked in by now but I suppose they still have all the rubber suits, maybe they've even got a couple of tubs of alien mouth goop left over, and it's not like they have to pay Arnie or Sigourney Weaver any more.
The Starship Troopers 'Direct to DVD' route strikes me as the sensible option for the studio here. Let's see how long it takes them to come to the same conclusion.
PS: This piece of craziness, which I found in the comments on this story over at Fark.com, would be a wonderful basis for any future AvP movie!
PPS: We've seen Aliens-themed games before, but here's a new one...
Can we please have the movie that the fans actually want? Future Earth (sometime after Alien Ressurection). Dark. Lots and lots of people dying. Marines with guns. Humans fighting along side predators in an uneasy truce. And an ending that is decidedly NOT happy.
Both of the Vs movies thus far have left me cold. They were set in current times, and Earth went right back to the way it was with no-one the wiser after the movie was over. LAME.
Even in Ripley's time, the general population did not believe in alien species. They need to find out the hard way... by large quantities of them dying. I want destruction!
Charles.
Posted by: Charles | 11 Mar 2008 17:07:05
Oh dear god, no...I had to see part 2 with hubby when it came out. Try watching a movie that has the worst lighting I have ever seen done on any film and watching a scene where some aliens explode out of pregnant women's bellies while you're 6 weeks pregnant.
Posted by: Lori Ingham | 11 Mar 2008 17:33:34
Lori. Hadn't you ever seen an Alien movie before? Those things are nasty! You should never have gone while pregnant. Or planning to be pregnant. Or ever having been pregnant. Seriously. If you are planning any more cinema trips check in with us here first.
And Charles - You're an action man through & through I can tell. You want to see Colonial Marines hosing down bugs with automatic weapons? How about Starship Troopers? There's another one of those out soon and I am assured there is discharge of firearms from the outset and throughout!
Posted by: Michael Moran | 11 Mar 2008 18:45:43
I went to see the original Alien on a sneak preview before it came out at the theaters --- it was FAR grosser and gorier that any version that was released.
About 1/3rd the audience got up and WALKED OUT before halfway thru the movie. I think thats why they REALLY toned it down.
(I had NEVER walked out on any movie before...)
Posted by: Gerry | 12 Mar 2008 01:14:29
Some spaceship. Whatever happens. The bulk of the movie should be one alien, one predator, and one human - the understanding that only one will emerge alive. The best part of the first Alien movie was that the Alien was, on its own, stealthy and scary. Same with Predator. Having giant monsters boxing each other is better left to Godzilla - and any kind of swarm mentality lessens the Alien as a species and won't live up to Starship Troopers and such.
Posted by: Goon | 12 Mar 2008 08:57:26
Actually, I had seen an Alien movie before. Which is why this was so damn disappointing. After this I swore off of any movie where any character was pregnant until mine was born.
Posted by: Lori Ingham | 10 Apr 2008 15:09:49