Quote from: PAS Spinelli on Feb 16, 2024, 04:52:03 AMSo, a Predator in a future setting you say....
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I know the concrete jungle game wasn't well-received by critics due to its controls. But personally, I enjoyed it throughly.
Quote from: SiL on Feb 16, 2024, 08:32:48 PMTrachtenberg didn't even realise the origin of the pistol had been covered in the EU, I wouldn't put much hope in him knowing or caring what the game says.
The films and the EU are separate things as far as Fox is concerned. I mean yes, the comics have influenced the films (i.e. Pred 2 and the AVP films), but by and large, the EU isn't treated as canon in the films (that's why I tend to shy away from going into too much details about the EU). Ideally, certain storyline and characters are picked up in the films but the EU doesn't really determime or dictate how the films will turn out.
Is that a good or bad thing? Well, good in the sense that the creators of the predator films feel they have the freedom to tell the stories they truly want unconstrained by prior storylines in the EU.
Bad I suppose for the AVP films, heck some stories and characters in the AVP EU, even the videogames, have better plot and characters than the AVP films. Yes, the AVP films did touched on elements from the EU, but they were mostly their own thing. But in hindsight, the producers would have been better off just straight up adapt an AVP plot entirely from the EU instead of the trash they made.
