Aliens Vs. Predator 2 Casting News

Oh, dear God. They're actually going ahead with that godawful script... this is going to be far worse than the first movie.

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CAN ANYONE SAY "DIRECT TO VIDEO?". THE ONLY NAME I AM FAMILIAR WITH IS REIKO AYLESWORTH, AND THATS ONLY BECAUSE I WATCHED 24 ON DVD RECENTLY. THE OTHERS....WHO?

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I think that Predator should carry a knife like the one on this website...

http://www.waspknife.com/

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Damn you cinematical! Sorry, but what I said is the truth. Paul W.S. Anderson couldn't write a script or direct a movie to save his life or the lives of his loved ones. He was given a massive budget and was given control of two franchises that are fairly large money makers. Guess what? He butchered them both simultaneously! For what he did, it should've been perfectly legal for an angry mob to haul him out into the middle of a street, strip him naked, eviscerate him, and then hang him by his own bloody entrails as his corpse still twitched. I repeat my early statement: at times he is a C-average director (competent, but nothing worth mentioning) but his "story telling" is tantamount to the incoherent ramblings of a five year old mental patient. If you don't believe me, look no further than RE: Apocolypse. Yes, he didn't direct it, but he wrote that atrocity. Let's see...the lead actress was sleeping with him at the time, so, instead of coming up with a coherent plot, what do we get? We see the B-grade actress get super powers, and she can't be harmed in any way, shape, or form.

I reiterate my early comment. IF FOX is smart, they kicked Paul's worthless, deserves-to-be-copulated-with-by-Satan butt to the curb where they found him, and hired someone a lot more qualified to deliver a script that a GOOD movie can be made from. And who knows...maybe they'll also get a director who won't ruin the film with crap photography.

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In fairness, both franchises were both butchered already before AvP got to them: Alien Resurrection and Predator 2 saw to that.

This film should not be made, and all those involved with it (and with the original) should be burned and shot into space.

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Predator 2 was okay as far as a sequel was concerned. Mind blowing? Not really, but it was satisfactory. The Predator franchise was harmed, but Predator 2 was by no means the death blow that Alien: Ressurection was.

Burned and shot into space? Geoff, that'd be far too easy on someone like Paul Anderson. Look at his track record, the franchises he was put in charge of, and look how deeply he drove them into the ground. Resident Evil and it's sequel had the potential to be good movies. Academy Award or Oscar winners? No, but they had the potential to be worth the $9.00 people shelled out to see them. Under Paul's direction and "writing" capabilities, they were travesties. Or, let's look further back at Mortal Kombat: Annihilation. Tell me if that wasn't a film which made you want to go out, find a Navy Seal, and slip him $50 to break your neck like a strand of raw pasta just so the sudden shut down of the central nervous system kept your mind from actually absorbing the movie. Such an idiot should never have been put in charge of writing and directing AvP based off the work he had done previously.

FOX is equally to blame. All they had to do was look at his portfolio, actually read his script before putting a stamp of a approval on it, and say, "Holy crap, this guy's going to make our new franchise sink quicker than the Titanic if the Titanic had been hit with a 10 megaton nuke!" If they had gone out of their way to find a good script and a good director, AvP would've been a good movie. They went with Paul because he was convenient and cheap. Hopefully, they are willing to rectify their mistake. If not, well, FOX deserves nothing less than bankruptcy.

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Is anyone else interested in an straight -- alien sequel with sigourney weaver? I know weaver is interested -- is anyone else interested in seeing this over the alien vs predator sequels?

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Jake,
I would like to see another Alien film. However, for there to be even the slightest possiblity of me enjoying it, it'd have to be far removed from A:R. As such, this doesn't leave Mrs. Weaver as a viable option for the lead role; you can't make a sequel with the same character and act like the drastic changes that happened to said character never happened or that the events in the previous movie never occured. There are a few exceptions to this rule, namely, Superman Returns. However, look how long it took for people to forget Superman III or Superman IV even existed. However, the Alien/s franchise doesn't have the same kind of fandom that Superman has, and because of A:R and AvP, I'm sure you couldn't pay movie goers enough to see a sequel that's a continuation of the Alien/s series as we know it.

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I really liked AVP. Do kill me just yet. A teenage comic book nerd could have done a better job, but I liked the movie. Lets be for real. Do WWE fans watch for the dramatic storylines, yeah sure they do. I loved the movie because I am a big AVP fan and it seems like a waited half of my lifetime to see this fianlly come to light. The creature effects were great, the creature fights were even better. If there is anything I would ask, it would be for more humans and more of them getting slaughtered on camera, for that is what made Alien, and Predator famous from the get go. If I can have that then lets just see an all out brawl no humans included on an hunting trip on another planet.

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