Editing Alien vs. Predator (section)

==Films==
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center; width:100%"
|+''Alien vs. Predator'' feature films
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! scope="column" style="width:15%"| Film
! U.S. release date
! Director(s)
! Screenwriter(s)
! Story by
! Producer(s)
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! scope="row" | ''[[Alien vs. Predator (film)|Alien vs. Predator]]''
| style="text-align:center" | {{start date|2004|08|13|}}
| colspan="2"| [[Paul W. S. Anderson]]
| Paul W. S. Anderson, [[Dan O'Bannon]] & [[Ronald Shusett]]
| [[John Davis (producer)|John Davis]], [[Gordon Carroll]], [[David Giler]] and [[Walter Hill]]
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! scope="row" | ''[[Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem]]''
| style="text-align:center" | {{start date|2007|12|25|}}
| [[Greg and Colin Strause]]
| colspan="2"| [[Shane Salerno]]
| John Davis, David Giler and Walter Hill
|}

===''Alien vs. Predator'' (2004)===
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In 2004, a Predator mothership arrives in [[Earth]]'s orbit to draw humans to an ancient Predator training ground on [[Bouvet Island|Bouvetøya]], an island about one thousand miles north of [[Antarctica]]. A buried [[pyramid]] giving off a "heat bloom" attracts a group of explorers led by billionaire and self-taught engineer Charles Bishop Weyland ([[Lance Henriksen]]), the original founder and CEO of Weyland Industries, who unknowingly activates an Alien egg production line as a hibernating Alien Queen is awakened within the pyramid. Three Predators descend unto the planet and enter the structure, killing all humans in their way with the intention of hunting the newly formed Aliens, while the scattered explorers are captured alive by Aliens and implanted with embryos. Two Predators die in the ensuing battle with an Alien, while the third allies itself with the lone surviving human, Alexa "Lex" Woods ([[Sanaa Lathan]]), while making their way out of the pyramid as it is destroyed by the Predator's wrist bomb and eventually does battle with the escaped Alien Queen on the surface. The Queen is defeated by being dragged down by a water tower into the dark depths of the frozen sea, but not before she fatally wounds the last Predator. The orbiting Predator mothership uncloaks and the crew retrieves the fallen Predator. A Predator elder gives Lex a spear as a sign of respect, and then departs. Once in orbit it is revealed that an Alien [[Alien (creature in Alien franchise)#Chestburster|Chestburster]] was present within the corpse, thus a Predalien hybrid is born.

===''Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem'' (2007)===
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Set immediately after the events of the previous film, the [[Alien (creature in Alien franchise)#Predalien|Predalien]] hybrid aboard the Predator scout ship, having just separated from the mothership shown in the previous film, has grown to full adult size and sets about killing the Predators aboard the ship, causing it to crash in the small town of [[Gunnison, Colorado]]. The last surviving Predator activates a distress beacon containing a video recording of the Predalien, which is received by a [[veteran]] Predator on the Predator homeworld, who sets off towards Earth to "clean up" the infestation. When it arrives, the Predator tracks the Aliens into a section of the sewer below the town. He removes evidence of their presence as he moves along using a corrosive blue liquid and uses a laser net to try to contain the creatures, but the Aliens still manage to escape into the town above. The Predator fashions a plasma pistol from its remaining plasma caster and hunts Aliens all across town, accidentally cutting the power to the town in the process. During a confrontation with human survivors, the Predator loses its plasma pistol. The Predator then fights the Predalien singlehandedly, and the two mortally wound one another just as the US air force drops a tactical nuclear bomb on the town, incinerating both combatants along with the Predalien's warriors and hive, as well as the few remaining humans in the town. The salvaged plasma pistol is then taken to a Ms. Yutani of the Yutani Corporation, foreshadowing an advancement in technology leading to the future events of the ''Alien'' films.

===Future===
Colin and Greg Strause were adamant that they wanted to develop ''Alien vs. Predator 3'' during the production of ''Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem''. They essentially sought to make an ''AVP''-film in space and set in the future, but by the time they were hired, 20th Century Fox had already decided to go with Salerno's script set on Earth. They incorporated elements of their ideas into the second film, such as the Predator home planet. In 2008 "an anonymous source over at 20th Century Fox got in touch with us over the weekend to relay the news another ''Aliens vs. Predator'' sequel is a 'certainty' at this point. If you recall, the brothers Strause – who helmed the Christmas release ''Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem'' – stated Fox was going to take a 'wait-and-see' approach to a third chapter, furthermore, that the story would have to continue in space."<ref>Giles, Jeff (March 11, 2008). [http://editorial.rottentomatoes.com/article/fox-brewing-alien-vs-predator-3/ "Fox Brewing Alien vs. Predator 3?"]  ''RottenTomatoes.com''.  Flixster, Inc.  Retrieved April 23, 2016.</ref>

On October 28, 2010, io9 published an exclusive interview with the Brothers Strause in which they revealed that ''Alien vs. Predator 3'' would have led directly into ''Alien''. Greg Strause stated that, "The original ending for ''AVPR'', that we pitched them, ended up on the Alien homeward [sic], and actually going from the Predator gun, that you see at the end, it was going to transition from that gun to a logo of a Weyland-Yutani spaceship that was heading to an alien planet. And then we were actually going to cut down to the surface [of the alien planet] and you were going to see a hunt going on. It was going to be a whole tribe of predators going against this creature that we called "King Alien." It's this huge giant winged alien thing. And that was going to be the lead-in, to show that the fact that the Predator gun [at the end of ''AVPR''] is the impetus of all the technological advancements that allowed humans to travel in space. Which leads up to the ''Alien'' timeline."

When asked about the ending sequence of ''Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem'', that the Predator-weapon handed to Ms. Yutani would lead to humans developing advanced space travel technology, Greg stated, "That was the idea. They never got any of the equipment from the first Predators. It's the first time they ever received any intact working technology left over. So they could take that and reverse engineer, figure out what the power source was – all of those things. And in theory, that would enable that company [Weyland-Yutani] to make massive advancements in technology and dominate the space industry. That was the whole idea, was to literally continue from Ms. Yutani getting the gun – and then cut to 50 years in the future, and there's spaceships now. We've made a quantum leap in space travel. That was going to set up the ending, which would then set up what ''AVP'' was going to be, which would take place 100 years in the future. That was kind of the plan."<ref name="io9.com"/>

Liam O'Donnell, who worked as a visual effects consultant on ''Requiem'', wrote a script treatment for ''AVP3'' during the production of ''Requiem'' which was set in South Africa about fifty years in the future when global warming had melted the ice caps (and releasing the Alien Queen from Antarctica), featuring the merger and global rule of the Weyland-Yutani Corporation and their development of interstellar travel based on the recovered Predator technology from Gunnison.<ref>{{cite tweet|number=1000736867820564482|user=LiamODin|title=@deggowaffles I actually wrote a...|date=May 27, 2018}}</ref>

In 2015, having worked on the special effects of ''Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem'', VFX make-up artist David Woodruff (the son of Tom Woodruff who worked on both the ''Alien'' and ''Terminator'' franchises) participated in an interview with TheTerminatorFans, and when asked about the situation of a third chapter in the ''AVP''-trilogy, he stated, "I haven't heard anything about a 3rd installment, not even rumors. This Neill Blomkamp project is the first possibility I've seen or heard of another ''Alien'' film and I'm all about it. I know the guys at Amalgamated Dynamics are pushing for something like this too. It's time."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.aliensversuspredator.net/news/david-woodruff-talks-alien-5-bringing-back-hicks-and-avp-3-movie-rumors|title=David Woodruff talks Alien 5, bringing back Hicks and AvP 3 movie rumors!|work=aliensversuspredator.net|access-date=May 8, 2016}}</ref>

In 2015, during the [[London Film and Comic Con]], Sigourney Weaver stated that she asked to have Ripley killed in ''[[Alien 3]]'' because she knew that Fox were moving forward with ''Alien vs. Predator''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cinemablend.com/new/Sigourney-Weaver-Blames-Alien-Predator-Basically-Ruining-Franchise-72675.html|title=Sigourney Weaver Blames Alien Vs. Predator For Basically Ruining The Franchise|work=cinemablend.com|date=July 20, 2015|access-date=May 8, 2016}}</ref> Peter Briggs (writer of ''The Hunt: Alien vs. Predator'') responded by praising all films in the franchise and pointing out that the ''AVP''-films were more successful than Weaver's last two ''Alien''-films, and noting that "There's a terrific ''Alien vs. Predator'' movie still to be made by someone. It just hasn't happened yet."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://bloody-disgusting.com/interviews/3354279/alien-vs-predator-writer-responds-sigourney-weaver-exclusive/|title='Alien vs Predator' Writer Responds to Sigourney Weaver|work=Bloody Disgusting!|date=July 22, 2015|access-date=May 8, 2016}}</ref>

In mid-2018, [[Shane Black]], the director of ''[[The Predator (film)|The Predator]]'', tweeted his belief that a third ''Alien vs. Predator'' can still happen, indicating the studio's interest in both franchises.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.predator4-movie.com/news/shane-black-thinks-theres-hope-another-alien-vs-predator|title = Shane Black thinks there's hope for another Alien vs. Predator}}</ref> A ComicBookRumours.com article from July suggested Fox may attempt an "''AVP'' Cinematic Universe" after Ridley Scott finishes making [[Alien: Covenant#Sequel|the ''Alien'' prequels]], after which Fox considered a "soft reboot" to the [[Alien (franchise)|''Alien'' series]] with new/original characters, a new setting, and new timeline,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://collider.com/alien-covenant-2-status-fox-ridley-scott/|title=Fox Reportedly "Reassessing" Future of the 'Alien' Franchise in Wake of 'Alien: Covenant'|website=[[Collider (website)|Collider]]|date=July 21, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://comicbookrumors.com/the-future-of-alien-and-versus-predator/|title=The Future of Alien and/versus Predator|author=Ryan Leger|date=July 30, 2018|publisher=ComicBookRumors.com}}{{Dead link|date=September 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> which the same article also suggested, if it were to happen, could potentially take place within the same continuity as the [[Predator (franchise)|''Predator'' films]] and ''AVP'' films. Noting ''[[Predators (film)|Predators]]'' featured a Xenomorph skull cameo (along with other references to ''[[Aliens (film)|Aliens]]'')<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://io9.gizmodo.com/5582904/12-predator-homages-to-look-out-for-in-predators|title = 12 Predator homages to look out for in Predators – and 1 Alien shout out| date=July 10, 2010 }}</ref> and Lex Woods' Xenomorph tail spear from ''Alien vs. Predator'' make appearance in ''The Predator''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://screenrant.com/predator-movie-alien-connection-avp-canon/|title=The Predator Makes Alien vs. Predator Canon Again|work=[[Screen Rant]]|last=Cotter|first=Padraig|date=September 15, 2018|access-date=November 3, 2021}}</ref> Alternate endings produced for ''The Predator'' displaying a Weyland-Yutani Corp pod containing Ripley and Newt (both played by Breanna Watkins) wearing a Weyland-Yutani breathing apparatus shaped like a Xenomorph Facehugger was also intended to further connect to the ''Alien'' films.<ref name="syfy.com"/><ref name="movieweb.com"/> In 2020, Alex Litvak, the co-writer of ''Predators'' revealed the original script for the film's cancelled sequel, which would feature the Colonial Marines from ''Aliens''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://screenrant.com/predators-2-sequel-movie-deleted-aliens-connection|title=''Predators 2'' Cancelled Story Would Have Connected To Aliens|work=[[Screen Rant]]|last=Stevenson|first=Rick|date=September 2, 2020|access-date=September 4, 2020}}</ref> In 2024, while promoting ''[[Alien: Romulus]]'', the film's director [[Fede Álvarez]] expressed interest in co-directing an ''Alien vs. Predator'' film with [[Dan Trachtenberg]], the director of [[Prey (2022 film)|''Prey'']].<ref>{{Cite web |last1=D'Alessandro |first1=Melanie Brooks,Anthony |last2=Brooks |first2=Melanie |last3=D'Alessandro |first3=Anthony |date=2024-08-16 |title='Alien: Romulus' Filmmaker Fede Alvarez Teases His Vision For 'Alien Vs. Predator' |url=https://deadline.com/2024/08/alien-romulus-fede-alvarez-alien-vs-predator-movie-1236042592/ |access-date=2024-08-18 |website=Deadline |language=en-US}}</ref>