Prey Producer Talks Franchise Future and Possible New AVP Film!

[Frosty Venom]

That would be great news if a new AVP film was announced. Even better if it was set in the future.

[happypred]

Between the Aliens and Predator IPs, the former is the more interesting, fully fleshed out sci-fi setting. An AvP film should be set in the Aliens-verse. If AvP is its own universe, the AvP-verse should look and feel like the mainline Aliens-verse, but with Predators thrown into the recipe.

• Predator stories set in the past
• Aliens stories set in the future
• AvP stories also set in the future, but being more like a parallel, secondary plotline to the primary Aliens plotline

The tricky part would be whether and how to bring AvP and Aliens characters together.

[xShadowFoxX]

Put it on a game preserve, really throw us a curveball where we think it's in the past but turns out it's in the future. Like we see a ninja but then all of a sudden we have a colonial marine. Lets make some wacky combos this time.

Hmmmmm hmmmm. I don't know. I feel like that's already been done in Hunter's Planet and Predators. So, game preserve, for me, has already been done.

[Frosty Venom]

I've been re-reading the original Aliens vs Predator comics and remembering how much these stories added to the Predator lore and how well it fits within the Aliens-verse

[BigDaddyJohn]

At this point I would love a straight adaptation of the AVP2 game. That was masterful.

I have basically zero care in the world if a new AVP movie ever happens. I don't care at all for the two movies that we have, and I never really put much stock in the concept outside of it being a fun enough, gimmicky crossover for comics and video games.

That being said: I think J.A. Bayona might be a genuinely fun choice to helm an AVP film. I think he'd get the pulp that's kind of inherent to the concept's core, and he'd tap into something a bit more stylized in its modes of horror and action with some inherent Gothic sensibilities against a more futuristic/techy backdrop.

Bayona is a really good director indeed... If the studio let him work properly.

[BlueMarsalis79]

Masterful up until plot threads are just dropped with no real resolution.

[BigDaddyJohn]

Masterful up until plot threads are just dropped with no real resolution.

Which ones are you thinking of ?

[BlueMarsalis79]

The entire ending of the Marine Campaign sucks.

[BigDaddyJohn]

Ahh yeah... That was the weakest part, clearly. Way too far removed from the tremendously good and atmospheric beginning.

[happypred]

It's a pity AvP 2004 oriented the franchise toward present-day Earth. They should've just used AvP Prey or Duel as a rough outline, maybe drop any human-predator team up but keep the future space setting. Think Duel would've worked well to bring Colonial Marines into AvP...would probably require less budget than a close adaptation of Prey？

[SiL]

Duel was one of the stories they considered, but Davis went with Anderson's pitch instead.

[Corporal Hicks]

I don't remember hearing that one? I know Emmerich and Devlin wanted the PredAlien to play a prominent role, but can't recall hearing them talk about any concepts that sounded like Duel specifically? A lot of the earlier reported stories tended to sound like Eternal.

[SiL]

That's because I'm getting the two titles mixed up in my head

Eternal is the one I'm thinking.

[OmegaZilla]

yooo emmerich avp gimme

[Youoneuglymf]

any way shape or form that i can see both of u guys work? Omega and SiL?