Quote from: LightTriad on Today at 04:09:47 AMIf the two franchises maintain a solid track record in film for the next few years then a new Alien Vs Predator film seems inevitable.
This does feel like the case to me. I know Disney/20th Century Studios is sitting on the AVP property for now (no intent to release the
Annihilation anime that Fox canned after completion, no reprinting of the Dark Horse AVP comics, no new AVP material from Marvel, etc.) but I think that's mostly just to let the individual franchises breathe and (re)establish themselves under this new Disney/20th Century Studios banner before taking another shot at cramming them together again.
Quote from: LightTriad on Today at 04:09:47 AMAnd I would be disappointed if the film makers didn't take in account all the movies from all three franchises when developing the story.
This, I'm less certain on. I think when a new AVP movie inevitably happens, it is going to be done so in a way without any real restrictions placed on it. I can't imagine a world where anyone coming in to make one of these (personally, I believe that Trachtenberg will at minimum be a producer/story contributor, but might even take it a step further and personally direct) will want to be tied down to what's established in the two existing AVP movies. I'm imagining it as more of a total clean slate, with a future off-Earth setting and no real acknowledgement or expansion of the specific hunting rituals that Anderson baked into his film's history.
I don't expect to see any Predator references from the Alien side of things in the near future, but only time will really tell if
Badlands' presentation of the Predator franchise's future plays into what's known/expected from the future of the Alien franchise.