During a recentAlien : Romulusscreening withCollider , director Fede Alvarez speak about the potential of diving event back into the franchise — specifically if he ’d be up for take on anAlien vs. Predatorcrossover picture . As it ferment out , he has actually given such a undertaking some thought , but is realistic enough to get laid that hisideal translation of a newAlien vs. Predatorfilm would be all but unimaginable to agnize .
“ The way I would do it , most probable , if it could be done this path … It ’s hard to keep secrets online … The bestAVPwill be the one that you do n’t know isAVPuntil the other guy show up . ” he told Collider . “You think you ’re watch over aPredatormovie , and then they land in some place and there are creatures , and fucking hell , it ’s a Xenomorph . That would get me . ‘ Fuck yeah ! ’ You ’d go mad . Or vice versa , you ’re in anAlienmovie , and then suddenly a mystical animal is there , and you may get wind that sound , and you see the cloak , and you go , ‘ Is that a fucking Predator ? ’ And then turn out it is . That would be the way to do it , do n’t you think ? Once you put it in the title , it ’s like , ‘ Spoiler alert . ’ ”
Pull one over on us and get away with it ? In our age of net spoiler civilisation , he really think this could fly ? I mean they had to cover Idina Menzel and Kristin Chenoweth in gargantuan raincoat to hide theirWickedcameos . Are we really going to carry our Alien Queen to go by unnoticed under an umbrella ? jolly aside , anyAlienorPredatorproduction would have mark pieces that are fairly obvious with iconic weapon system and egg , so we barely think it will be an loose way of life for Alvarez to take now that it ’s known .
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Dropping a surprise reveal on the hearing is something Alvarez thought about doing inAlien : Romulus , he explained ; his original pitch , he said , was “ We do n’t sayAlien . We just put any random skill fiction title … It was this whole thing , ‘ And then short [ the characters ] walk into a room , and there ’s a flaming egg ’ … That was the original plan . ”
Of course , that did n’t end up bechance , but Alvarez did gather one big element intoRomulusthat he go for would at least surprise audiences who saw it ahead of time enough to quash being spoiled . “ Rook [ the Ian Holm - inspired character ] in this movie was something that we kept as a arcanum until it was the last second , ” he said . “ Most of you , hopefully , did n’t know until you run in on opening night .. the few masking we did before the movie [ opened in theater ] , I beg everybody , ‘ Please do not break it for everybody else . Do not post about Ian Holm being in the film . ' ”
As for the theory of a newAlien vs. Predatormovie , surprisal or otherwise , Alvarez sounded more than open to working withPreydirector and currentPredatorfranchise architect Dan Trachtenberg . “ I ca n’t talk for Dan , ” Alvarez said . “ At some level … one Clarence Day if we sense like , ‘ Yeah , [ a newAVPis ] what we can not wait to see , ’ I conceive that ’s a movie we could do . ” Trachtenberg hasPredator : Badlandsarriving this fall .
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