Sure, Let’s Do Another Alien vs. Predator

This weekend’s Alien: Romulus is getting fairly well-reviewed and seems like it’s done its job in revitalizing the horror franchise. Funnily enough, the same thing happened with the Predator series and the pretty excellent Prey back in 2022. Both brands have now gotten a solid movie under their belts in the post-Disney/Fox merger, leading some to believe if we should maybe give Alien vs. Predator another go?

Fede Alvarez sure seems to think so. Talking to Deadline during the Romulus red carpet, the director believes it’d be worth doing, mainly as a team effort with Prey director Dan Trachtenberg. “We should do like Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez did with From Dusk Till Dawn,” he suggested. “We’ll do that. I direct one half, he directs the other half. There you go, that’s the pitch.” As Fangoria notes, he might be more accurately referring to Tarantino and Rodriguez’s 2007 double feature Grindhouse, made up of the former’s Death Proof and the latter’s Planet Terror. Either way, it’s a gag pitch on Alvarez’s part, but maybe there’s the seed of an idea there, and it’ll bloom in a few years.

Fede Álvarez reveals his pitch for ‘Alien vs. Predator’ : “Maybe something that I have to co-direct with my buddy Dan (Trachtenberg)” pic.twitter.com/HmhabAXN84

— Deadline Hollywood (@DEADLINE) August 16, 2024

The original Alien vs. Predator turned 20 years old earlier this week, and it’s got a special place in the hearts of Alien and Predator fans. Is it stupid? Without a doubt, but it’s the fun kind of dumb, and Sanaa Lathan’s doing the damn thing. (The sequel, meanwhile, just exists.) It’d be fun to see what a new clash looks like in the wake of both franchises’ resurgence, but maybe after each of them get another film or two, just so there’s a solid foundation. At the very least, we’re getting more Predator movies, starting with Badlands coming sometime in the near future. As for more Alien, there’s FX’s 2025 show Alien: Earth, but no films beyond Romulus quite yet. And if we can’t get a crossover, maybe someone at 20th Century can pull some strings and release that anime they apparently made and shelved?

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