Cast: Noomi Rapace, Michael Fassbender, Charlize Theron.As bad as the movie is, the Yutani nod was a cool note to end on. This ain’t canon anymore for the Alien franchise, but as mentioned before, the AvP movies have been embraced by the Predator timeline. This movie keeps pushing the idea of everything in both franchises happening in one big timeline, and ends up tying Yutani Corp’s huge space travel advancements we see in the Alien movies to Predator tech. There are notable differences between the theatrical cut and the extended one (which is the way to go), but the main events remain unchanged in the latter.

AvP: Requiem is set in 2004 too, starting right after the previous movie cuts to black.

Cast: Steven Pasquale, Reiko Aylesworth, John OrtizĢ0th Century Fox’s (now Studios) second go at AvP was met with abysmal reviews and a cold shoulder from most fans, although it delivered enough unrestrained nastiness and refreshing in-universe concepts to get diehard fans talking.

Furthermore, a major flashback set in the early days of human civilization shows that both species have been going at it for an awfully long time. However, it put the origins of the Xenomorphs – as presented by Alien (1979) – into question, and Ridley Scott’s prequel movies later trashed the entire idea of Xenos existing this early in the timeline. Predator crossover movie, AvP tries really hard to connect both franchises, especially with the inclusion of Aliens veteran Lance Henriksen as the founder of Weyland Industries (which later becomes Weyland-Yutani after a merger). What comes afterwards is a chaotic battle between long-dormant Xenomorphs and three Predator hunters, with humans caught in the middle.Īs the first Alien vs.

An expedition led by Charles Bishop Weyland (Lance Henriksen) wants to investigate a massive heat signal under the ice on Bouvetøya, an island off the coast of Antarctica. Cast: Sanaa Lathan, Raoul Bova, Lance HenriksenĪfter a failed AvP project which was developed in the 90s, Shane Salerno’s script set the action in (back then) present day: 2004.

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