YES, it actually has become one of my life dreams, because how much i love both franchises, to see a GOOD, dark, adult, R AVP movie, come on, is not that hard, the problem is exactly what you say, the two they made they made them as just popcorn movies, and to a certain extent is what both franchises are too, but the filmmaking made them GOOD, and this is what needs to happen with AVP, a good director and a good script, the issue/thing is, and there was a GREAT thread about this here -look it up please, is great though it needs a deeper analysis- that has sadly been forgotten and never talked enough, is that is all about the concept and themes, Alien and Predator are opposites in that, and that is specially and exactly what they have to do it and why it has so much potential: it could be argued that Alien is a feminist franchise, and Predator a masculine one, there it is, there it is the story, make that two concept clash, like a violent, surreal, perverted and exaggerated war of the sexes
AVP2 for PC so far is the best thing to come out of the AVP idea, they could do something like that too
I also believe i have the perfect idea for a movie and i have been working on it for a while now but is hard, it basically is a -unconscious btw- mix of the first AVP comic and AVPR, i tell you that and it sounds terrible but it actually has nothing to do with both things, is just similar in the surface, though i am still refining the story and some aspects, it also has stuff from the AVP2 game and also is like a remake of Alien/Aliens/Alien 3/Predator/Predator 2 putted all togheter in one, pretty much is all those situations and themes again but with some twists, expanding and developing them
They also have to keep some guidelines
-It has to be in the future, with colonial marines
-It has to be about suspense, and then action
-Which means that the creatures has to be SECONDARY, like in Alien and Predator, tell a good story with interesting characters and the creatures are a background for that, an antagonistic representation of the concepts which the story deals
-So, the CHARACTERS and STORY come first, this is essential for a movie like this to work, though you know that if there is a Versus in the title there has to be fights between the creatures
-It has to be dark and violent, some humour and one liners but not when things get real, like Predator/Aliens
I could keep going but i will go to sleep, is 5:22 am here, my idea is an AVP movie that contains everything we have seen in Alien/Aliens/Alien 3/Predator/Predator 2, specially regarding the creatures, no stupid universe expanding BS like faster grow rate or shurikens, everything you saw from the creatures has to be there and no need of inventing new stuff when there is so much to do with what we already have, specially when the new stuff they come out is stupid or flat out contradictory to what we have seen before, though it does has some little stuff from Prometheus/Covenant, actually i saw in Covenant some thematic stuff that i was planning on put in my AVP story, it would be also be two hours and a half long and would serve as a sequel of all those movies i said (minus the prequels obviously) and be its own thing at the same time
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Also, with the box office of A:C not doing so well i think it would be hard to get an AVP movie, we will have to wait to see how Shane movie goes too, and i want a dead serious AVP movie, with some light moments like in Aliens/Predator/Predator 2 at the beggining but not too overboard either