The awesome folk over at Amalgamated Dynamics Inc. have posted a new behind-the-scenes video from their time working on Alien vs. Predator. This new video, A Day In The Life of Scar, does exactly what it says on the tin and follows Ian Whyte over the course of a day filming the first Alien vs. Predator.
We watch as he is made up as Scar, is scrutinised by Paul Anderson and Sanaa Lathan, rehearses the battle with the Queen, takes a break where he comments on his new contacts, breaks a dreadlock and gets back to work! Check it out below.
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Agreed, but Alien/BR/Predator BTS' always interests me.
Me too, it's the gift that keeps on giving. I love watching these videos when they come out, especially seeing the actors outside of character. Like Sanaa Lathan, she just seems so chill. "What do you think the Predators smell like"
I admire plenty about AVP as well, and how you put it has been my feeling for awhile now. I obviously nit pick and wish a lot was different with the film and even so with all other Alien/Predator films. But just in this movie's case, I really appreciate the practical and special effects and suitwork for this film. I would have loved more City Hunter/Wolf style predators in AVP in a way, but there was still a lot of design put into the armour, weapons, etc., that I like more and more still. However, Scar's face could have certainly been more intimidating/scary for sure & why do I feel like the eye contacts Ian Whyte had in this ADI Behind the Scenes video did not come out as well in the final movie? Maybe the lighting/shots? I feel like he still wore them but they looked more human-like in the film and not as much of a yellow color
Otherwise, I will say again that I think AVP took advantage of it's budget in a lot of ways or at least I feel that the production value and effects still hold up very well today. I especially like for one example, how the Queen Alien was handled in AVP, it had great overall practical/special effects in all scenes I felt. And AVP looks even better in the collection of all related films when we get silly CGI from films like The Predator. I enjoy my favorite parts in the new predator film, but they really messed with too much stuff and I'm still disappointed with the lack of practical predator suit use/screen time
This fairly recent article makes the case it's underrated too:
https://editorial.rottentomatoes.com/article/hear-us-out-youve-totally-underrated-avp-alien-vs-predator/
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"Come back AVP-2004, all is forgiven!"
Amazing a film from 15 years ago still looks like it was made by people who gave a damn, and yes that includes Paul W S Anderson.
Not a classic due to rating, modern day Earth setting and oddly lacking suspense- but absolutely top notch practical effects, sets and suitmation stuntwork.