Posted by Corporal Hicks
- Mar 30, 2007, 11:34:21 PMTry Ebay.
Posted by Predator82
- Mar 28, 2007, 12:37:19 PMwhere can i get the novel of avp?
Posted by SM
- Mar 28, 2007, 11:20:32 AMIt also amplifies the scripts mistakes. There's constant referring to Bouvet as Bouvetoya Island and also talks about ther being 6 months of darkness at the south pole - which there isn't. And there's never 24 hours of darkness on Bouvet.
You can see in the original novelisations that Alan Dean Foster tried to plug plot holes where he could, but Cerasini didn't really do any more research on his setting than Anderson it seems.
You can see in the original novelisations that Alan Dean Foster tried to plug plot holes where he could, but Cerasini didn't really do any more research on his setting than Anderson it seems.
Posted by Extroheal
- Mar 28, 2007, 09:54:21 AMThe AVP novelization does a good job of fixing many of the plot holes in the movie although I don't remember all of them. I do remember that Sebastian's theory about Antarctica being free of ice several thousand years ago is explained in detail. There are similar theories in real life which claim that the Egyptian pyramids were actually built about 12000 years ago. Sebastian never says "what are those" when looking at whale bones in a whaling station and the way to open the sarcophagus has nothing to do with the date but has something to do with the constellation Orion.
However, the novel introduces one really big plot hole that wasn't in the movie, which completely ruins it. In the movie, when the Queen calls, 6 aliens come to set her free. In the novel hundreds of aliens come, with no explanation of where they came from. I don't know how this ever got published without anyone noticing. Maybe it was this way in the original script.
However, the novel introduces one really big plot hole that wasn't in the movie, which completely ruins it. In the movie, when the Queen calls, 6 aliens come to set her free. In the novel hundreds of aliens come, with no explanation of where they came from. I don't know how this ever got published without anyone noticing. Maybe it was this way in the original script.
Posted by Snore
- Jan 27, 2007, 03:37:49 AMQuote from: BrokenTusk on Jan 26, 2007, 04:03:37 AM
thanks bullethead for the info, I thought it would be actually worth buying if a Pred survived. Seriously Fox who does a Pred have to kill just to survive a movie ?
Probably the actual lead in a show of anti-climatic irony.
Posted by BrokenTusk
- Jan 26, 2007, 04:03:37 AMthanks bullethead for the info, I thought it would be actually worth buying if a Pred survived. Seriously Fox who does a Pred have to kill just to survive a movie ? 
Posted by bullethead
- Jan 25, 2007, 11:19:17 AMIt could have been worse, but it definitely could have been better. Then again, they (Fox) might not have given him lots of leeway with the novel.
Posted by SM
- Jan 24, 2007, 01:23:02 AMThe AvP novelisation was worse than the film. A remarkable achievement.
Posted by bullethead
- Jan 24, 2007, 01:07:43 AMNone of the Pred teens survived. The novel added a second Predator being implanted with an embryo, an explanation why the ship couldn't get into the bay, another Pred that got shredded by lots of Aliens (I think), and a second Alpha Alien that was killed by Grid. Also, the Weyland team's guns were MP5s, not G36Cs and a Desert Eagle was mentioned some where.
Posted by BrokenTusk
- Jan 22, 2007, 06:46:35 PMin the novelisation did any of the Pred teens survive ?!?!? or the changes weren't too significant ?
Posted by Corporal Hicks
- Jan 21, 2007, 05:45:20 PMWell I've already checked and Harper-Collins currently has no plans to do a novelization at the moment.
Posted by bullethead
- Jan 21, 2007, 05:36:39 PMI agree with Corporal Hicks. All good novelizations expand on the movie's plot by explaining things the movie couldn't. Usually the novel is better than the movie, but that mostly depends on the author. With a movie novelization, there's going to push to stick closely to movie and some authors can't do it well. Other authors can do an astounding job.
Hopefully the novel will be based on the shooting script, not an early draft like AvP's seemed to be.
Hopefully the novel will be based on the shooting script, not an early draft like AvP's seemed to be.
Posted by Corporal Hicks
- Jan 21, 2007, 11:06:59 AMIt really came down to Marc Ceresani(?) being able to do more with the novel than could be done in the film. He was able to get into their heads, let us know what they thought. That's what made the characters in novel more enjoyable for me.
Posted by Mr. Weyland
- Jan 20, 2007, 06:21:20 PMBudget?
Posted by ian36015
- Jan 19, 2007, 10:03:51 PMSound interesting and fun to watch. To bad it dident hit film.. Why do people do that?
