Here is a quote from a stunt cooridnator(I believe that was his job) Jeff Habberstad "It [AVP 2] absolutely can stand alone, but the story continues to be told."
that quote, it can absolutely stand alone but hte story continues to be told, reminded me of another sequel, Evil Dead 2, anybody who has seen that film understands that its basically a continuation off of the first one, but the beginning of the film allows you to see this film without ever seeing the first, and the beginning is more then just reused footage from the first that brings you up to speed, its an entirely newly filmed shorten version of what basically happens in the first, with a few major differences.
Thats what I personally am hoping for this film to be, I hope that there is an opening which consists of newly filmed stuff and not footage from the first avp, but ends with the same effect, a dead impregnated predator being brought on board a predator ship.
so the story idea of a predalien will continue to be told, giving this the ability to be called a sequel, but the opening, which differentiates from the first film too much to simply be called a re cap, will allow this film to be a completely stand alone film.
I think thats a pretty fair assumption, and the fact that the look of the predator ship and altar bed from AVP were changed pretty drastically for this film, I think it all makes sense, they aren't trying to stick to the look of the ship and bed from AVP for continuity reasons because this is a stand alone film, that happens to work as a sequel.
Anyone esle hoping for/thinking the same thing?
I hope I'm right, I hope I never have to watch AVP again.
