Marvel Officially Acquires Alien and Predator Comic License

[SM]

Was Jim Hahpah there too?

[Voodoo Magic]

They were college roommates.

Was his college major Linguistics?

[funk_master_chunk]

This could be great or piss poor and I'm not sure which side of the fence I'm on ATM.

We all know it'll be Predator vs Wolverine or Punisher.

If they keep the franchises within their respective umbrellas EG - No Marvel crossovers and simply Alien or Pred or AVP content is generated then I think that's the "best" outcome. For me at least.

One thing I am interested in is does this mean Marvel/Disney have got one eye on more cinematic content? As I think Marvel budgets could really bring the franchises back to the fore. Well Pred seems to be better with shitty budgets like 1&2; but Alien with a massive budget to make Geiger-esque soundstages and sets could be incredible, IMO.

On te comics front, though - I think they'd do well with a rehash of the AvP Arcade Game and use San Drad as an Alt-World futuristic Californian Town (as The Predator introduced wormhole/dimension hopping tech, IIRC - as shit as that sounds). Maybe Yautja recon teams synthesised a training/battle android (salvaged from Weyland tech after a skirmish with a colonial ship?) based on Dutch after they watched Jungle Hunter's battle logs or something. And they use it to train hunters against to develop better but end up using it to fight Xenos.

That's just off the top of my head; but that sort of stuff would be more palatable than the "Hey bub" *snikt* nonsense I'm really hoping they don't churn out but likely will.

[lightsyder]

I imagine we'll get stories set in a movie based A, AvP, P universe as well as crossovers that may as well be elseworlds stories that have no impact of the film based one or the main marvel universe

[Voodoo Magic]

One thing I am interested in is does this mean Marvel/Disney have got one eye on more cinematic content? As I think Marvel budgets could really bring the franchises back to the fore. Well Pred seems to be better with shitty budgets like 1&2; but Alien with a massive budget to make Geiger-esque soundstages and sets could be incredible, IMO.

Practical sets like those have gone the way of green screens and processing power. I doubt we'll ever see the Geiger-esque soundstages in our future.

And in regards to larger budgets: Predator doesn't need one, actually I'd prefer it not to have it, but a large budgeted AvP film off-Earth would be a dream!

[j0nesy]

i think the only hope of anything cinematic for avp is if/when we get to see the unreleased netflix series

[Kimarhi]

With Disney I'd say AvP is way more likely than alien or pred.  Basically every marvel movie is a vs movie.  That's right in the wheelhouse.

[Corporal Hicks]

If we finally get an adaptation of the original AvP, I'm all for that!

[funk_master_chunk]

i think the only hope of anything cinematic for avp is if/when we get to see the unreleased netflix series

There's an unreleased Netflix series??!?

If we finally get an adaptation of the original AvP, I'm all for that!

What's the original AvP?

Assuming it differs from the film?

[j0nesy]

https://www.avpgalaxy.net/forum/index.php?topic=63371.0

[funk_master_chunk]

https://www.avpgalaxy.net/forum/index.php?topic=63371.0

Wow an animation too?

Sounds like it could've been great!

[Voodoo Magic]

What's the original AvP?

Assuming it differs from the film?

I think he means an adaptation of the comic, with Machiko.

[Corporal Hicks]

Exactly. I wouldn't mind seeing Briggs' script as the foundation too.

[funk_master_chunk]

Cool.

I've mentioned before that I'm not huge on AvP films, but the comics/games etc are the perfect medium for it, IMO.

If an AvP film was done right I think it could be decent. But I wasn't sold on Mayan-esque Temple in Antarctica is the Preds' hunting ground for Xenos.

[EJA]

Would crossovers with Marvel Earth-616 have to be out of continuity though? DH's "Hunting the Heroes" was canon to Comics Greatest World, and the WildC.A.T.S./Aliens crossover was canon to the Wildstorm Universe.