"Make an AVP3 set in the future. Make it dark, violent, using weapon's from ALIENS and updated Minigun from Predator."
Everything sounds good except the minigun. Throwbacks and easter eggs tend to take me out of the experience. Kind of like when Samuel L. Jackson said "hold onto your butts" in skull island. I thought about Jurassic Park and then had to get back into the movie all over again, which ruined the first encounter scene for me. But AVP territory is most likely where we're headed. It's a solid bet in todays market. Violent creature content, with gunfights and /sci-fi horror elements. It just covers so many areas. The Alien fans, the Predator fans, folks that love space movies, folks that love monster movies, horror lovers, gore hounds, gamers, etc.
Should Predator 2018 embrace the "fun" aspect of films like Aliens and AVPR, and do well financially, AVP3 will likely make the Disney radar whenever these franchises are brought up in the future. Of course, Predator 2018 will need to have a good ad campaign if it wants to draw the crowds, and I'm excited to see that first trailer.
Of course, should Disney make movies like Alien, Aliens and AVPR, we'll have some people going nuts that the films are either just visual crack with no substance, or they lack the narrative depth of the prequels. But the prequels have to end someday. I have the utmost respect for Mr. Scott as a director. He makes wonderful non-alien films, (The Martian, Hannibal, Gladiator, Blade Runner, etc.). I respectfully look forward to the day he moves on from the Aliens Universe so that we can have a new shot at some excellent Alien and Non-Alien films at the same time. And if anyone from Disney ever reads this,
AVP: Read the first book.
Alien 5 - See Gibson's Alien 3 script.
And A Merry Christmas To Everybody As Well.