The Predator once tried to be even more explicit in smashing together the universes of Alien and Predator in an unused ending. Predator movies was a brief silent cameo from Françoise Yip, reprising her role as Ms. Predator films would be reaffirmed as canon once again through a brief Easter Egg in The Predator that involved a prominent spear from the saga’s 2004 installment.įurther connecting The Predator and the Alien vs. These movies went in such drastically different directions from the two crossover motion pictures that it would be reasonable to assume that Fox was looking to erase them from people’s memories. Predators would arrive in July 2010 while Prometheus would debut in June 2012. 20th Century Fox would quickly pursue new movies for each of these sci-fi universes but in standalone capacities. Predator franchise was now dead in the water after just three years of existence. Opening over Christmas 2007 in North America, Requiem did manage to triple its budget worldwide, but it wasn’t beloved by audiences and didn’t make quite enough to ensure that people would keep turning out for these features.Įven though it had taken over a decade to come to the big screen in the first place, the Alien vs. Directed by Colin and Greg Strause, this one ramped up the violence enough to return these intergalactic beasties to R-rated territory. Predator did make decent coin at the box office and inspired a sequel, Alien vs. Still, even if it didn’t quite live up to the most lavish dreams of fans, Alien vs. This explains why the film functions as a solid standalone trifle decades after its release, but also illuminates why it couldn’t quite satisfy fan expectations, especially considering this first crossover was rated PG-13.
Predator takes place centuries earlier than the other Alien movies). No signs of Weaver and Arnold Schwarzenegger teaming up together, nor does the mythology of earlier movies get to come back into play ( Alien vs. Predator, meanwhile, only brings Henriksen back from earlier installments of the franchise. Projects like The Avengers or Jurassic World: Dominion have normalized smashing together beloved lead characters from separate movies, even if they were released decades apart. Predator is a bit different than other big pop culture crossovers that have emerged in the last decade.
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