(As usual, you have three votes each.)In the dark future of 2026, Fox has been seized by raw self-destructive urges towards all of its properties. YOU, skilled and inspired screenwriter, have been tasked with producing a screenplay for their new high budget science fiction movie, using both of their most beloved horror/scifi properties.
You have an indecent budget, 237 million USD, same as the first Avatar. You also have complete creative freedom regarding the structure, tone, message and characters of the movie.
There's only one catch, which is announced to you only once you've taken the job.
The founding works of the franchise are now the video game AlienS: Colonial Marines and the films AVP:Requiem and The Predator.
All other works are to be entirely ignored, their ideas and events going unquoted, unreferenced and explicitly contradicted, up to and including
Alien (1979),
AlienS (1986) and
The Predator (1987). Yeah, even those are blacklisted, forgotten, decanonized. You cannot reference/continue any part of these movies.
You can ONLY work from
AlienS: Colonial Marines,
AVP: Requiem and
The Predator, that will be nicknamed the "
badlogy", the bad trilogy, in the poll and further explanations.
You are not authorized to ignore these stories, to only use the same setting as the badlogy. No, you must use their elements to an extent.
At least 25% of the story content must directly reference/continue all of these three stories (these 25% can include characters, plot points, environments etc, as long as it is in the game and the two movies). Your work will also take place in a larger future continuity, new movies will be made from those and from yours, Fox is AMBITIOUS and they have PROJECTS.
You're writing the future of cinema here, using the masterpieces, the Holy Scripture, the Word of God that is the badlogy.
Again, you CANNOT retcon and MUST aknowledge all three works.
What do you do?
