Unseen AvP Requiem Concept Art

Posted February 01, 2009 10:33 PM Corporal Hicks 45 Comments

I know the film has been out yonks now, but I recently ran into a couple of portfolios of the concept artists who worked on AvPR and found a couple of previous unseen artwork:

Secret Lab (Dark Hoffman)

The above is one of four pieces of artwork done by Dark Hoffman and one of two which seems to show there might have been plans for a secret base experimenting on Aliens and Predators.

The second artist, Chris Howe, has 14 pictures in a gallery all to do with the design of Wolf’s mask and his weapons. Now I’ve seen one of those mask charts on our forum but the rest I haven’t seen. There are quite a few new weapons as well.

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Sulaco
Posted Feb 14, 2009, 04:26:05 PM

The thing is that would kill continuality for the ALIEN franchise, Since Im f*ckin off at work I looked up FOX in the dictionary: v. to deceive or puzzle by acting craftily.
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Sulaco
Posted Feb 14, 2009, 04:18:48 PM

Always liked secret labs. Living in USA we got a few.
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PRED117
Posted Feb 12, 2009, 12:28:11 PM

Hoooooooooooooooly crap look at SECRET LAB #1
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scout n88
Posted Feb 11, 2009, 04:30:29 AM

cool i hope there will be an A-V-P 3
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Shadow Hunter
Posted Feb 09, 2009, 05:25:07 AM

I like it
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Skyler
Posted Feb 08, 2009, 11:35:08 AM

the only thing good that came from this film was fight scenes othere wise it was a P.O.S.
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Keyes
Posted Feb 07, 2009, 08:41:57 AM

Good thinking, I guess that would make more sense and would have probably featured Garber from P2, as his appearance was originally planned.
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Xenomorphine
Posted Feb 06, 2009, 08:32:28 PM

I doubt this was meant to be for the main part of it. Looks like it's styled in such a way for the epilogue. This could have been what was initially planned, in place of that gun thing.
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Sulaco
Posted Feb 05, 2009, 08:41:25 PM

Yea it's because of us fans we got AvP also Sil.
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SiL
Posted Feb 05, 2009, 07:24:47 PM

The more people comment on these pictures, the more I see why we got such shitty, poorly thought out ideas in AvPR. That's what the fans want.
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predatorfandrc90
Posted Feb 05, 2009, 04:20:09 PM

nice concept could have had more creatures that way like genetic experiments and other cool atrosites.
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Mr. Weyland
Posted Feb 05, 2009, 02:50:07 AM

If only they could have headed in the direction that secret lab art was going instead of what we got, interesting though, maybe they will go with this in the future?
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Xenomorphine
Posted Feb 04, 2009, 03:50:56 PM

I find it interesting that one laboratory concept has the smooth domes and the other has the creatures with ridges. This might imply that the scene survived up to at least the point when the director were brought on and decided to change the usual heads to those.
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Alien Genesis
Posted Feb 04, 2009, 01:50:45 AM

Wow, those Alien/Predator lab pictures were more interesting than anything AVPR had to offer. I'm alternately excited and saddened by that claim at the same time.
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Spaghetti
Posted Feb 03, 2009, 05:07:54 PM

I really just wanna forget about this whole movie.
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avp
Posted Feb 03, 2009, 03:18:04 PM

hmm i like the the 2nd secret lab better....after what happened in gunnison maybe the general and weyland corp are working together and sometime in the future maybe in the next movie even they experiment and capture them or something all i know is that this will b apart of something
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Keyes
Posted Feb 03, 2009, 02:26:14 AM

It's a shame Colin doesn't post here anymore. I'd like to hear what he'd have to say on it.
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stealth bunny
Posted Feb 03, 2009, 01:41:25 AM

Anybody notice the cloaked predator ship in orbit in the nuclear explosion shot?, maybe they were on standby ready to wipe out the alien infestation if wolf failed but were beaten to it by the us air force.
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SiL
Posted Feb 02, 2009, 08:48:05 PM

Quotefurthermore if the lab was in the same setting as the first avp then continuity would at the very least be no less damaged then it already was.
Except AvP actually preserved continuity by having all traces wiped out, and, y'know, not having people with Aliens in f**king specimen containers. On Earth. In the present day. When they don't even know about them in the future. Nothing in AvPR messed up continuity that bad.
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CELTICPRED
Posted Feb 02, 2009, 07:12:49 PM

Those predator weapons and some of those masks are genuinely awesome. I love them.
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marrerom
Posted Feb 02, 2009, 06:25:17 PM

a secret lab with alien and predator specimins ala terminator 2 would have immediatly elevated this films status from "critters" to at least the first avp's level in terms of scifi quality. furthermore if the lab was in the same setting as the first avp then continuity would at the very least be no less damaged then it already was. so when i say it'd be 10 times better, thats still not good. just better.
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SiL
Posted Feb 02, 2009, 05:53:35 PM

Man, what? How the hell would the secret lab be better? That's a secret lab on present day Earth. That's even more retarded than the movie we got.
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marrerom
Posted Feb 02, 2009, 04:44:03 PM

that secret lab stuff is exactly the direction they needed to go in. pure scifi and none of that rural redneck town shit. if only Dark Hoffman had made this movie it would have been easily 10 times better!
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The Necronoir
Posted Feb 02, 2009, 02:08:39 PM

Well, after noticing the date on those concepts my explanation seems to have gone out the window. In that case, I don't know what they were thinking...
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JediYautja
Posted Feb 02, 2009, 02:08:34 PM

I really like the idea of adult Xenomorphs and Predators held in cryo-stasis, but then again, it would've probably caused confusion for continuity...Unless the idea was recycled for a (hypothetically) next Alien/Predator...
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Zillamaster202
Posted Feb 02, 2009, 02:08:24 PM

Alien Predator experiementtation? That could be the next sequal...I hope.
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The Necronoir
Posted Feb 02, 2009, 02:06:33 PM

Logic would dictate that the lab concept was probably part of the original pitch the Strause brothers put to Fox, which was to be set in the future. Having deemed it too costly they hired them anyway and lumped them with the Salerno script.
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Keyes
Posted Feb 02, 2009, 12:38:00 PM

It's just interesting to see what other ideas/story points they were perhaps using originally... for good or bad, it's interesting stuff.
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wmmvrrvrrmm
Posted Feb 02, 2009, 11:52:13 AM

these images were interesting.
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War Wager
Posted Feb 02, 2009, 11:46:20 AM

I'm glad this lab thing came to pass. I think it would be a good basis for another story though, in the future.
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Nukiemorph
Posted Feb 02, 2009, 10:51:57 AM

I still see AVP-R as canon. I think there are easily ways to make it plausible in the story line... but if those labs were in the film, I don't think it would be possible to fit it into the time line. Good thing the idea was kicked....
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Griffith
Posted Feb 02, 2009, 10:26:07 AM

Splinter Cell is such a wise guy ..AVPR it's an awful movie they should have burn it
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RidgeTop
Posted Feb 02, 2009, 07:38:12 AM

I really like that concept of the lake crash. Sky looks really good.
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DoomRulz
Posted Feb 02, 2009, 06:40:40 AM

Secret lab? WTF?
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gameoverman
Posted Feb 02, 2009, 05:52:21 AM

Looks like they at least tried to make it much more than what it was. Impossible with that script, though.
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shakermakerman
Posted Feb 02, 2009, 02:53:20 AM

Secret lab could work if it was in the future, but as for AvPR oh dear.
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predalien-hybrid
Posted Feb 02, 2009, 02:44:52 AM

I know those wolf concepts aren't very true to the original predators but they are quite interesting to look at...for me at least!
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predalien-hybrid
Posted Feb 02, 2009, 02:38:08 AM

The aliens and predators in the first lab concept look like mcfarlane action figures!
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Hicks_0998
Posted Feb 02, 2009, 12:46:10 AM

The lab scenes are very reminiscent of the comics and captures the essence of "Aliens" well. As for the Predator designs...looks more like something out of Mass Effect...but can still see some yautja there.
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Keyes
Posted Feb 02, 2009, 12:35:02 AM

Secret lab looks very interesting. I wonder what the original idea for it in the story was?
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Splinter Cell
Posted Feb 02, 2009, 12:00:52 AM

If i could , i would remove any evidence of that films existence .
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Vulhala
Posted Feb 01, 2009, 11:30:45 PM

Thanks Hicks!! Thats some interesting stuff!!
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Craig
Posted Feb 01, 2009, 11:16:34 PM

this is hilarious!
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Corporal Hicks
Posted Feb 01, 2009, 11:07:22 PM

Oh how I long for something in the future with talent behind it.
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SiL
Posted Feb 01, 2009, 10:59:55 PM

Oh sweet Christ. Secret lab? I ... wow. That's all there is. Wow.
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