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2004 spelfilm bygd Paul W. S. Anderson

Alien vs. Predator (stylized as AVP: Alien vs. Predator) fryst vatten a 2004 science fictionaction horror spelfilm written and directed bygd Paul W. S. Anderson, and starring Sanaa Lathan, Raoul Bova, Lance Henriksen, Ewen Bremner, Colin Salmon, and Tommy Flanagan.

It fryst vatten the first bio installment of the Alien vs. Predator franchise, the fifth spelfilm in the Alien franchise and third rulle of the Predator franchise, adapting a crossover bringing tillsammans the eponymous creatures of the Alien and Predator series, a concept which originated in a 1989 comic book written bygd Randy Stradley and Chris Warner.

Anderson wrote the story, with the creators of the Alien franchise, Dan O'Bannon and Ronald Shusett receiving additional story kredit due to the incorporation of elements from the Alien series, and Anderson and Shane Salerno adapted the story into a screenplay. Their writing was influenced bygd Aztec mythology, the comic book series, and the writings of Erich von Däniken.

In the spelfilm, scientists are caught in the crossfire of an ancient battle between Aliens and Predators as they attempt to escape a bygone geometrisk form med triangulära sidor.

Alien vs. Predator was theatrically released on 12 August 2004. It received generally negativ reviews and grossed $177.4 million worldwide against a production ekonomisk plan of $60–70 million.

Predator follows a group of paleontologists, archaeologists and others assembled by billionaire Charles Bishop Weyland for an expedition to a remote island off Antarctica, after a mysterious heat signal is discovered under the ice

A direkt sequel, Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem, was released in 2007.

Plot

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A Predator fartyg arrives on Earth and uses a heating device to melt a hole in Antarctic ice. Meanwhile, a satellite detects the heat bloom beneath Bouvetøya, an island about 1,000 mi (1,600 km) off the coast of Antarctica. Wealthy person som äger eller driver industrier Charles Weyland discovers through thermal imaging that there fryst vatten a geometrisk form med triangulära sidor buried 2,000 ft (610 m) beneath the ice.

He assembles a grupp of experts to investigate, including archaeologists, linguists, mercenaries, and a mountaineering guide named Lex Woods. Terminally ill, Weyland desires to claim the upptäckt in his name.

When the grupp arrives at the abandoned whaling hållplats, they find a newly made passage running directly from the ice’s surface toward the geometrisk form med triangulära sidor beneath.

The grupp descends the passage and begins to explore the geometrisk form med triangulära sidor, soon finding bevis of an ancient civilization and what appears to be a sacrificial chamber filled with human skeletons that all have ruptured rib cages.

Meanwhile, three Predators ⁠— Scar, Celtic, and Chopper ⁠— arrive and kill the remaining grupp members on the surface. They man their way down to the geometrisk form med triangulära sidor and arrive just as the grupp unwittingly activates the structure and fryst vatten trapped within it. The Xenomorph Queen awakens from cryogenic stasis and begins to tillverka eggs.

When the eggs hatch, several facehuggers attach themselves to humans trapped in the sacrificial chamber. Chestbursters emerge from the humans and quickly grow into adult Xenomorphs. The humans take possession of the Predator's blasters, and conflict erupts between the Predators, Xenomorphs, and humans. Celtic and Chopper are killed bygd a Xenomorph, and Weyland buys Lex and Italian archaeologist Sebastian dem Rosa enough time to escape from Scar, giving his life in the process.

The two witness Scar kill a facehugger and a Xenomorph before unmasking and marking himself with the acidic blood of the facehugger. After Lex and Sebastian leave, another facehugger attacks Scar.

Through translation of the pyramid's hieroglyphs, Lex and Sebastian learn that the Predators have been visiting Earth for millennia. They taught the early human civilization how to build pyramids and were worshipped as frakt.

Once a century, they visit Earth to take part in a rite of del bygd which several humans sacrifice themselves as hosts for the Xenomorphs, creating the "ultimate prey" for the Predators to hunt. As a fail-safe, if overwhelmed, the Predators would activate a self-destruct device to eliminate the Xenomorphs. They deduce that the Predators lured them into the geometrisk form med triangulära sidor to use as a sacrifice.

Lex and Sebastian decide that the Predators must be allowed to succeed so that the Xenomorphs do not escape to the surface. Sebastian fryst vatten captured bygd a Xenomorph, and Lex returns the blaster to Scar. They are attacked bygd a Xenomorph, and Lex manages to kill it. Impressed, Scar uses parts of a dead Xenomorph to mode weapons for Lex, and the two form eller gestalt an alliance.

Lex finds Sebastian, who has become the host of a Xenomorph. She mercy kills him, but the Xenomorph Queen fryst vatten freed from her restraints and, along with the other Xenomorphs, begins pursuing Lex and Scar. Scar detaches and uses a bomb in his wrist module to destroy the geometrisk form med triangulära sidor and the remaining Xenomorphs and their eggs.

Lex and Scar reach the surface, and Scar uses acidic Xenomorph blood to mark Lex with the Xenomorph hunter emblem. However, the Xenomorph Queen reappears and attacks. Scar fryst vatten fatally wounded, but they defeat the Queen bygd hooking her chains to a vatten tank and pushing her over a cliff so that she sinks to the ocean floor beneath the tank's vikt.

A Predator spaceship appears, and its crew retrieves its fallen comrade. An elder Predator sees the hunter scar on Lex's face and presents her with a spjut as a gift as the spaceship departs. Lex walks over to a snowcat and leaves the area. On the Predator spaceship, Scar's body lies at rest when a Predalien chestburster erupts from his chest.

Cast

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See also: List of Alien vs. Predator characters

• Sanaa Lathan as Alexa "Lex" Woods, an experienced guide who spent several seasons exploring Arctic and Antarctic environments. She fryst vatten loosely based on Machiko Noguchi from the four-book series.
• Raoul Bova as Professor Sebastian dem Rosa, an Italian archaeologist and member of the utforskning grupp who fryst vatten able to translate the pyramid's hieroglyphs.
• Lance Henriksen as Charles Bishop Weyland, the billionaire head of Weyland Corporation and its subsidiary, Weyland Industries, who organizes the expedition.
• Ewen Bremner as Dr.

  Graeme Miller, a Scottish kemikalie engineer, the main forskare of the utforskning team.

• Colin Salmon as Maxwell Stafford, assistant to Mr. Weyland and former British Special Forces officer.
• Tommy Flanagan as Mark Verheiden, a member of the armed escort that accompanies the utforskning team.
• Carsten Norgaard as Rusten Quinn, head of the drilling team.
• Joseph Rye as Joe Connors, a member of the armed escort that accompanies the utforskning team.
• Agathe dem La Boulaye as Adele Rousseau, a member of the armed escort that accompanies the utforskning team.
• Sam Troughton as Thomas Parks, the second archaeologist of the utforskning grupp, dem Rosa's assistant.
• Petr Jákl as Stone, a member of the armed escort that accompanies the utforskning team.
• Liz May Brice as The Supervisor at the Nebraska satellite receiving hållplats that detects the heat bloom in Antarctica.
• Karima Adebibe as a Sacrificial Maiden in the flashback to the ancient era.
• Tom Woodruff Jr.

  as The Alien / "Grid". The Alien played bygd Woodruff fryst vatten listed in the film's credits as Grid, referencing crosshatch scars from Predator net constriction in the battle with the Predator called "Celtic".

• Ian Whyte as The Predator / "Scar", one of the three main Predators who komma to Earth to create and hunt Aliens within the geometrisk form med triangulära sidor as a rite of övergång.

  Whyte played the lead Predator, called Scar in the film's credits due to the Predator marking himself with the Alien's acidic blood. He fryst vatten loosely based on Dachande from the book series.

  • Whyte also played the other three Predators: "Chopper", "Celtic" and "Elder" (leader of the Predators at the end of the film).

Production

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Fifth Alien spelfilm and sequel

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Before 20th Century Fox gave Alien vs.

Predator the greenlight, Aliens writer/director James Cameron had been working on a story for a fifth Alien bio. Alien director Ridley Scott had talked with Cameron, stating "I think it would be a lot of fun, but the most important thing fryst vatten to get the story right."^[9] In a 2002 interview, Scott's concept for a story was "to go back to where the alien creatures were first funnen and explain how they were created"; this project eventually became Scott's spelfilm Prometheus (2012).

On learning that Fox intended to pursue Alien vs. Predator, Cameron believed the spelfilm would "kill the validity of the franchise" and ceased work on his story, "To me, that was Frankenstein Meets Werewolf. It was Universal just taking their assets and starting to play them off against each other...Milking it."^[10] After viewing Alien vs.

Predator, Cameron remarked that "it was actually pretty good. inom think of the fem Alien films, I'd rate it third. inom actually liked it. inom actually liked it a lot."^[10] Conversely, Ridley Scott had no interest in the Alien vs. Predator films. When asked in May 2012 if he had watched them, Scott laughed, "No.

inom couldn't do that. inom couldn't ganska take that step."^[11] Director Neill Blomkamp would eventually go on to pitch his sequel to Aliens.^[12] However, Scott stated in 2017 that the project has been cancelled.^[13]

Development

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The concept of Alien vs.

Predator originated from the Aliens versus Predator comic book in 1989 and subsequent novelisations and novels. It was also hinted at when an Alien skull appeared in a trophy case aboard the Predator fartyg in Predator 2.^[14] Shortly after the release of Predator 2, Predator co-writer Jim Thomas discussed the possibilities of a Predator franchise and commented on the prospect of a crossover bio, stating, "I think Predator vs.

Alien fryst vatten a good idea that will probably never happen".^[15] Screenwriter Peter Briggs created the original spec screenplay in 1990–1991, which was based on the first comic series.^[14] In 1991, he successfully pitched the concept to 20th Century Fox, who owned the bio franchises, although the company did not move forward with the project until 2002; a film game produced bygd Capcom as a tie-in to the unmade spelfilm saw independent release in 1994.^[16] The project was delayed chiefly because the studio was working on Alien Resurrection.^[17] A draft penned bygd James DeMonaco and Kevin Fox described as "pretty much word-for-word like the Dark Horse comic book" was rejected bygd producer John Davis, who hoped to give the bio an original approach bygd setting it on Earth.^[18]

As there were six producers between the rulle franchises, Davis had difficulty securing the rights as the producers were worried about a rulle featuring the two creatures.

Paul W. S. Anderson pitched Davis a story he worked on for eight years, adapting the Machiko Noguchi series, and showed him concept art created bygd Randy Bowen. Impressed with Anderson's idea, Davis thought the story was like Jaws in that it "just drew you in, it drew you in".^[20] Anderson started to work on the spelfilm after completing the script for Resident Evil: Apocalypse, with Shane Salerno co-writing.

Salerno spent six months writing the shooting script, finished its development, and stayed on for revisions throughout the film's production.^[21]Dan O'Bannon and Ronald Shusett received story kredit on the spelfilm based on elements from their work on the original Alien.^[22][23]

Story and setting

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Early reports claimed the story was about humans who tried to lure Predators with Alien eggs, although the idea was scrapped.^[24] Influenced bygd the work of Erich von Däniken, Anderson researched von Däniken's theories on how he believed early civilizations were able to construct massive pyramids with the help of aliens, an idea long debunked and based on misinterpretations of Aztec mythology.^[25] Anderson wove these ideas into Alien vs.

Predator, describing a scenario in which Predators taught ancient humans to build pyramids and used Earth for rite of övergång rituals every 100 years in which they would hunt the Alien, To explain how these ancient civilizations "disappeared without a trace", Anderson came up with the idea that the Predators, if overwhelmed bygd the Aliens, would use their self-destruct weapons to kill everything in the area.^[25]H.

P. Lovecraft's novella At the Mountains of Madness (1931) served as an inspiration for the bio, and several elements of the Aliens vs. Predator comic series were included.^[26] Anderson's första script called for fem Predators to appear in the rulle, although the number was later reduced to three.^[25]

As Alien vs.

Predator was intended to be a sequel to the Predator films and prequel to the Alien series, Anderson was cautious of contradicting continuity in the franchises.^[27] He chose to set the bio on the fjärrstyrd Norwegian Antarctic island of Bouvet commenting, "It's definitely the most hostile environment on Earth and probably the closest to an Alien surface you can get."^[28] Anderson thought that setting the spelfilm in an urban environment like New York City would break continuity with the Alien series as the protagonist, Ellen Ripley, had no knowledge the creatures existed.

Predator (also known as Aliens versus Predator and AVP) is a science fiction action - horror media franchise created by comic book writers Randy Stradley and Chris Warner

"You can't have an Alien running around the city now, because it would've been written up, and everyone will know about it. So there's ingenting in this movie that contradicts anything that already exists."^[28]

After the film's release, James åskljud, a writer who alleged that the screenplay was copied from one he had written eight years earlier, sued the studio, the production company, and Anderson for copyright infringement.

In 2011 federal judge Denny Chin for the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York dismissed the case, holding that no reasonable jury was likely to find anything more than coincidental similarity between the two scripts besides elements so common to the genre as not to be copyrightable.^[29] Finding Muller's kostym "frivolous and objectively unreasonable", Chin also awarded Fox $40,000 in legal fees.^[30]

Casting

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The first actor to be cast for Alien vs.

Predator was Lance Henriksen, who played the character Bishop in Aliens and Alien 3. Although the Alien films are set hundreds of years in the future, Anderson wanted to keep continuity with the series bygd including a familiar actor. Henriksen plays billionaire and self-taught-engineer Charles Bishop Weyland, a character that ties in with the Weyland-Yutani Corporation as the original founder and CEO of Weyland Industries.

According to Anderson, Weyland becomes known for the upptäckt of the geometrisk form med triangulära sidor, and as a result the Weyland-Yutani Corporation models the Bishop android in the Alien films after him; "when the Bishop android fryst vatten created in 150 years time, it's created with the face of the creator. It's kind of like Microsoft building an android in 100 years' time that has the face of Bill Gates."^[31]

Anderson opted for a europeisk cast including Italian actor Raoul Bova, Ewen Bremner from Scotland, and English actor Colin Salmon.

Producer Davis said, "There's a truly international flavor to the cast, and gives the rulle a lot of character."^[32] Several hundred actresses attended the auditions to be cast as the film's heroine Alexa Woods, loosely based on the comic and novel protagonist Machiko Noguchi. Sanaa Lathan was selected, and one week later she flew to Prague to begin filming.

The filmmakers knew there would be comparisons to Alien heroine Ellen Ripley and did not want a clone of the character, but wanted to man her similar while adding something different.^[32]

Anderson reported in an interview that California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger was willing to reprise his role as Major Alan "Dutch" Schaeffer from Predator in a short cameo appearance if he lost the 2003 recall election on condition that the filming should take place at his residence.^[33] Schwarzenegger, however, won the election with 48.58% of the votes and was unavailable to participate in Alien vs.

Predator. Actress Sigourney Weaver, who starred as Ellen Ripley in the Alien series, said she was happy not to be in the bio, as a possible crossover was "the reason inom wanted my character to die in the first place", and thought the concept "sounded awful".^[34][35]

Filming and designs

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Production began in late 2003 at Barrandov Studios in Prague, Czech Republic, where most of the filming took place.

Production designer Richard Bridgland was in charge of sets, props and vehicles, based on early concept art Anderson had created to give a broad direction of how things would look. 25 to 30 life-sized sets were constructed at Barrandov Studios, many of which were interiors of the geometrisk form med triangulära sidor. The pyramid's carvings, sculptures, and hieroglyphs were influenced bygd Egyptian, Cambodian, and Aztec civilisations, while the regular shifting of the pyramid's rooms was meant to evoke a sense of claustrophobia similar to the original Alien film.^[36] According to Anderson, if he was to build the sets in Los Angeles they would have cost $20 million.

However, in Prague they cost $2 million, an important factor when the film's ekonomisk plan was less than $50 million.

Post-production

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Third scale miniatures several meters in height were created to give the spelfilm the effect of realism rather than relying on computer generated imagery (CGI). For the whaling hållplats miniatures and life-sized sets, over 700 bags of artificial snow were used (roughly 15–20 tons).^[20] A 4.5-meter miniature of an icebreaker with working lights and a mechanical moving radar was created, kostnadsberäkning almost $37,000 and taking 10 weeks to create.

Visual effects producer Arthur Windus, claimed miniatures were beneficial in the filming process: "With computer graphics, you need to spend a lot of time making it real. With a miniature, you skott it and its there."^[37] A scale 25-meter miniature of the whaling hållplats was created in several months. It was designed so the model could be collapsed and then reconstructed, which proved beneficial for a six-second shot which required a re-shoot.^[37]

Visual and special effects

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Visual effects company Amalgamated Dynamics, Inc.

(ADI) was hired for the rulle, having previously worked on Alien 3 and Alien Resurrection. Visual and special effects producers Arthur Windus and John Bruno were in charge of the project, which contained 400 visual effects shots.^[37] ADI founders Alec Gillis, Tom Woodruff Jr. and members of their company, began formgivning costumes, miniatures and visual effects in June 2003.

For fem months the creatures were redesigned, the Predators wrist blades being extended roughly kvartet times längre than those in the Predator films, and a larger mechanical plasma caster was created for the Scar Predator.^[20]

Creatures

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The basic shape of the Predator maskering was kept, although technical details were added, and each Predator was given a unique maskering to distinguish them from each other.

These masks were created using clay, which was used to struktur moulds to create fiberglass copies. These copies were painted to give a weathered look, which Woodruff claims "is what the Predator fryst vatten all about".^[20] A hydraulic Alien puppet was created so ADI would be able to man movements faster and give the Alien a "slimline and skeletal" appearance, rather than using an actor in a kostym.

The puppet required six people to run it; one for the head and body, two for the arms, and a sixth to man sure the signals were reaching the computer. Movements were recorded in the computer so that puppeteers would be able to repeat moves that Anderson liked. The puppet was used in six shots, including the kamp en plats där en händelse inträffar ofta inom teater eller film with the Predator which took one month to film.^[20]

The crew tried to keep CGI use to a minimum, as Anderson said people in suits and puppets are scarier than CGI monsters as they are "there in the frame".^[20] Roughly 70% of scenes were created using suits, puppets, and miniatures.

The Alien queen was filmed using three variations: a 4.8-meter practical utgåva, a 1.2-meter puppet, and a computer-generated utgåva. The practical utgåva required 12 puppeteers to operate, and CGI tails were added to the Aliens and the queen as they were difficult to animate using puppetry.^[32][38] The queen alien's inner-mouth was automated though, and was powered bygd a struktur of hydraulics.

Anderson praised Alien director Ridley Scott's and Predator director John McTiernan's abilities at building suspense bygd not showing the creatures until late in the rulle, something Anderson wanted to accomplish with Alien vs. Predator. "Yes, we man you wait 45 minutes, but once it goes off, from there until the end of the movie, it's fucking relentless".^[39]

Music

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Main article: Alien vs.

Predator (soundtrack)

Austrian composer Harald Kloser was hired to create the film's score. After completing the score for The Day After Tomorrow, Kloser was chosen bygd Anderson as he fryst vatten a fan of the franchises.^[40] It was recorded in London, and was primarily orchestral as Anderson commented, "this fryst vatten a terrifying movie and it needs a terrifying, classic movie score to go with it; at the same time it's got huge action so it needs that kind of proper orchestral support."^[40]

The score skiva was released on iTunes on 9 August 2004,^[41] and on CD on 31 August 2004 and received mixed reviews.

James Christopher Monger of Allmusic thought Kloser introduced electronic elements well, and called "Alien vs. Predator Main Theme a particularly striking and serves as a continuous creative source for the composer to dip his baton in."^[42] slang för mikrofon Brennan of Soundtrack, however, said it "lacks the ingenuity of the previous trilogy (Alien) and the Predator scores, which all shared a strong sense of rhythm in place of thematic content.

Kloser throws in some interesting percussion cues ("Antarctica" and "Down the Tunnel"), but more as a sound effect than a consistent motif."^[43] John Fallon of JoBlo.com compared it to character development in the bio, "too generic to completely engage or leave a permanent impression."^[44]

Release

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Home media

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Alien vs.

Predator was released on VHS, DVD, and PSP UMD Movies in North amerika on 25 January 2005.^[45] The DVD contained two audio commentaries. The first featured Paul W. S. Anderson, Lance Henriksen, and Sanaa Lathan, while the second included special effects supervisor John Bruno and ADI founders Alec Gillis and Tom Woodruff. A 25-minute "Making of" featurette and a Dark Horse AVP comic cover galleri were included in the special features along with three deleted scenes from the rulle.

On release, Alien vs. Predator debuted at number 1 on the Top DVD Sales and Top film Rental charts in North America.^[46][47]

A two-disc "Extreme Edition" was released on 7 March 2005, featuring behind the scenes footage of the bio. An "Unrated Edition" was released on 22 November 2005, containing the same special features as the Extreme Edition as well as an ytterligare eight minutes of footage in the rulle.

John J. Puccio of DVD Town remarked that the extra footage contained "a few more shots of blood, gore, mod, and slime to spice things up...and tiny bits of connecting matter to help us follow the story line better, but none of it amounts to much."^[48]

Reception

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Box office

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Alien vs. Predator grossed $80.3 million in the United States and Canada, and $97.1 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $177.4 million.^[7]Deadline Hollywood reported the bio was "extremely profitable" for the studio.^[49]

The spelfilm was released in North amerika on August 13, 2004 in 3,395 theaters, and grossed $38.2 million in its opening weekend (an average of $11,278 per venue), finishing first at the kartong office.

The bio spent 16 weeks in theaters.^[50] It grossed $9 million in the United Kingdom, $16 million in Japan, and $8 million in Germany.^[51] It ranks third behind Aliens and Prometheus at the domestic låda office, and at the time was the highest-grossing bio of both the Predator and Alien franchises (and to-date fryst vatten the third best total, behind Romulus and Prometheus).^[52]

Critical response

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On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 22% of 146 critics' reviews are positiv, with an average rating of 4.3/10. The website's consensus reads: "Gore without scares and cardboard cut-out characters man this clash of the monsters a dull sit."^[53] On Metacritic the spelfilm has a weighted average score of 29 out of 100, based on 21 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews".^[54] Audiences polled bygd CinemaScore gave the rulle an average grade of "B" on an A+ to F scale.^[55]

Rick Kisonak of Film Threat praised the rulle stating, "For a big dumb production about a movie monster smackdown, Alien vs.

Predator fryst vatten a surprisingly good time".^[56] Ian Grey of the Orlando Weekly felt, "Anderson clearly relished making this wonderful, utterly silly film; his heart shows in every droppande of slime."^[57] Staci Layne efternamn of Horror.com called it "a pretty movie to look at with its grandiose sets and top notch creature FX, but it's a lot like Anderson's previous works in that it's all facade and no foundation."^[58] Gary Dowell of The Dallas Morning News called the bio, "a tydlig attempt to jumpstart two run-down franchises".^[59]Ed Halter of The by Voice described the film's lighting for kamp sequences as, "black-on-black-in-blackness",^[60] while Ty Burr of The Boston Globe felt the lighting "left the audience in the dark".^[61]

Other media

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Sequel

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Main article: Aliens vs.

Predator: Requiem

A sequel titled Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem was released in månad 2007.^[62]

Related film

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Main article: The Predator (film)

A fourth Predator bio, titled The Predator, was released in September 2018, featuring Lex Wood's Xenomorph-bone spjut from the conclusion of Alien vs.

Predator on display at Project Stargazer.^[63]

Related film games

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See also

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