Disney in talks to buy Fox. What could this mean for Alien and Predator?

[Magegg]

You send 10 AVP fans over there and the next day you will have a war over 100 different directions they want to take the series in.

First off, abort any further Ridley Scott effort and reboot the franchise in a second.

Yeah, while Disney made mistakes, that was not one of them   

Not saying it was a mistake, but that's definitely Disney taking the franchise in another direction, so, yeah, very different to what drove Lucasfilm in its late years of independence.

[The Old One]

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[Voodoo Magic]

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Wait. Does that gif mean I was supposed to be the chosen one?

[The Old One]

You were my brother.

[Voodoo Magic]

You were my brother.
You could've supervised to make sure there's no Crabators, now you're dismembered and on fire.

A fitting demise!

Twas just a no-Blade-Runner-Alien-Shared-Universe joke.

[The Old One]

Thoughts revision; concerning the Alien Blade-Runner idea.

AvP's inappropriate.

Alien + Blade-Runner's alright,
but each is gratuitous.

[Voodoo Magic]

[The Old One]

Ah, Tim Curry <3

[Nukiemorph]

Really?  "90% of Alien fans" would agree that Ridley's efforts need to die on a cliffhanger because they were just that awful?  I doubt that.

It baffles me that people consider The Predator and Covenant to be in the same league of crap.

[Local Trouble]

As someone who isn't as invested in Predator, I'd say Covenant was actually worse.

[Perfect-Organism]

I say let Ridley finish his thing.  It's Ridley.  The guy who gave us the first film.  I want to see where he takes it.  Otherwise we will be asking this ad infinitum once he is no longer with us.

[Samhain13]

I'm a big fan of both series but probably a bigger predator fan, like 60% predator 40% alien for me, I consider The Predator much worse overall. The Predator is a bad movie and a really bad predator movie. While Covenant is a good movie and can be an average alien movie depending on one's headcanon.

Heck even Prometheus was better than The Predator and I can spend hours talking about my problems with that one.

[Magegg]

Really?  "90% of Alien fans" would agree that Ridley's efforts need to die on a cliffhanger because they were just that awful?  I doubt that.

It's hurting the brand, tarnishing the series.

[Nightmare Asylum]

Plant me firmly in the 10% camp that wants to see Ridley finish what he started, then.

[Nukiemorph]

This is largely why I was so ecstatic to hear about the "two TV series" news.  One series finishes Ridley's story for those who care and the other can be a safe, risk-free, crowd-pleasing action-fest with colonial marines shooting aliens.

I know it's been more or less debunked, but I'd like to see Disney take this route.