With passionate filmmakers hell-bent on bringing both franchises back to their horrific roots with a hard R rating and a script that promised to finally bring the infamous Predalien to the big screen after the hybrid creature had been teased in games and comics for years, it’s easy to understand why fans were initially hyped for Aliens vs. Wanting to avoid a Xenomorph outbreak, the Yautja decide to send a lone Predator back to earth in order to clean up this extraterrestrial mess and exterminate the survivors with extreme prejudice. Predator: Survival of the Fittest, the sequel was set to follow the immediate aftermath of the first film, with the newly-birthed Predalien causing a Predator ship to crash-land in a small American town. The duo was already well-known for their special effects company Hydraulx, which had worked on everything from The X-Files to The Day After Tomorrow (they would also go on to create the surprisingly entertaining Skyline movies), but the brothers had also unsuccessfully pitched an AVP movie to Fox in the past, making them ideal candidates for a rematch. Wanting a director with experience in effects-driven blockbusters, the studio eventually selected the Strause Brothers to helm the project. However, when Anderson exited the proposed rematch to work on his Death Race reboot, Fox had to look elsewhere for filmmakers willing to tackle their biggest sci-fi properties. That’s why it’s only natural that Twentieth Century Fox decided to cash in on the picture’s compelling cliff-hanger ending by almost immediately greenlighting a sequel. While that film was (unfairly) lambasted by critics for being a crowd-pleasing B-movie that reduced its legendary extraterrestrials to mere intergalactic wrestlers, it still made quite the killing at the box-office. Anderson finally brought it to the big screen back in 2004. In this edition of The Silver Lining, we’ll be discussing the Strause Brothers’ controversial sequel, Aliens vs Predator: Requiem.ĭespite fans clamoring for a live-action incarnation of the Alien vs Predator franchise, the proposed adaptation was infamously stuck in development hell for years until Paul W.S.
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