Quote from: solace97 on Nov 03, 2024, 05:17:00 AMQuote from: Corporal Hicks on Oct 30, 2024, 06:18:02 AMQuote from: Nightmare Asylum on Oct 28, 2024, 01:09:04 AMI'm of the opposite mindset. If you're going to do something animated, then own that and lean into what you can do uniquely in that medium. Go heavily stylized, don't limit it to what can be done in live action (otherwise why not just do it in live action to begin with?).
I agree 100%. It's why I've always been so eager to see Alien vs./Predator in an anime format. I've long thought one of Predator's biggest strengths is its flexibility - in terms of story and design - and I think that extends to the visual styles. And we've seen that in a bunch of the Dark Horse comics. I say bring it on.
What would your ideal AVP story follow?
Assuming it's non-canonical, I'd love a straight re-hash of the AvP arcade game.
Lean into all the stuff which doesn't work in live action (namely the genetics) and have them clone anyone who's beat a Pred.
So Dutch was cloned from DNA in JH's fight with him or something. And they merge it with WY android tech and test the androids in battle scenarios against Xenos or something equally fun and outlandish.
So they have a WY Dutch they can replace and/or modify at will to go on hunting parties.
But they wind up using them/it to clear out nests as it has Dutch's battle prowess, Pred intel/mods/upgrades and WY android strength/durability.
I'd have the story something like a huge Xeno hive is beneath a WY settlement and there's something silly like a "Super Queen" and thousands of "Mega Xeno" eggs aboard a freighter due to leave the planet and it'd headed straight to Earth (because of course it is!)
So thus would serve to establish that the Preds have double the interest in this as they quite like hunting Xenos - but they also really like hunting Earthlings back on Earth! It'd allow them to be their usual violent selves - but would also cater to that little part of us all that wants to see them be the goodies too!
That all gives it the OTT, mega anime-style plot and then it becomes about the nice set-pieces you could have in an animation that just won't work on film.
So a scene to show the nest is so big that they do a Phantom Menace style shot where they show a load of different types of Dutch droids suspended in a lander of sorts and they start dropping them into the nest to clear it out. Classic Dutch. Hammerfist Dutch. Shoulder cannon Dutch. Sniper Dutch. Lightsaber Dutch etc. Then just have a f**king chaotic episode where this army of Dutches led by the Preds are obliterating the nest before they nuke it and the queen to bits (this would be where they found the Queen was aboard a ship or something).
But yeah - just go nuts with it.
