Sure, Let’s Do Another Alien vs. Predator

This weekend’s Alien: Romulus is getting reasonably well-reviewed and seems similar it’s done its occupation successful revitalizing the fearfulness franchise. Funnily enough, the aforesaid happening happened with the Predator series and the beauteous fantabulous Prey back successful 2022. Both brands person present gotten a coagulated movie nether their belts successful the post-Disney/Fox merger, starring immoderate to judge if we should possibly springiness Alien vs. Predator another go?

Fede Alvarez definite seems to deliberation so. Talking to Deadline during the Romulus red carpet, the manager believes it’d beryllium worthy doing, chiefly arsenic a squad effort with Prey director Dan Trachtenberg. “We should bash similar Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez did with From Dusk Till Dawn,” helium suggested. “We’ll bash that. I nonstop 1 half, helium directs the different half. There you go, that’s the pitch.” As Fangoria notes, he might be much accurately referring to Tarantino and Rodriguez’s 2007 treble diagnostic Grindhouse, made up of the former’s Death Proof and the latter’s Planet Terror. Either way, it’s a gag transportation connected Alvarez’s part, but possibly there’s the effect of an thought there, and it’ll bloom successful a fewer years.

Fede Álvarez reveals his transportation for ‘Alien vs. Predator’ : “Maybe thing that I person to co-direct with my buddy Dan (Trachtenberg)” pic.twitter.com/HmhabAXN84

— Deadline Hollywood (@DEADLINE) August 16, 2024

The original Alien vs. Predator turned 20 years aged earlier this week, and it’s got a peculiar spot successful the hearts of Alien and Predator fans. Is it stupid? Without a doubt, but it’s the amusive benignant of dumb, and Sanaa Lathan’s doing the damn thing. (The sequel, meanwhile, conscionable exists.) It’d beryllium amusive to spot what a caller clash looks similar successful the aftermath of some franchises’ resurgence, but possibly aft each of them get different movie oregon two, conscionable truthful there’s a coagulated foundation. At the precise least, we’re getting much Predator movies, starting with Badlands coming sometime successful the adjacent future. As for more Alien, there’s FX’s 2025 amusement Alien: Earth, but nary films beyond Romulus quite yet. And if we can’t get a crossover, possibly idiosyncratic astatine 20th Century tin propulsion immoderate strings and merchandise that anime they seemingly made and shelved?

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