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Alien vs. Predator (2004) In 2004, a Predator mothership arrives in
Earth's orbit to draw humans to an ancient Predator training ground on
Bouvetøya, an island about one thousand miles north of
Antarctica. A buried
pyramid giving off a "heat bloom" attracts a group of explorers led by billionaire and self-taught engineer Charles Bishop Weyland (
Lance Henriksen), the original founder and CEO of Weyland Industries, who unknowingly activates an Alien egg production line as a hibernating Alien Queen is awakened within the pyramid. Three Predators descend unto the planet and enter the structure, killing all humans in their way with the intention of hunting the newly formed Aliens, while the scattered explorers are captured alive by Aliens and implanted with embryos. Two Predators die in the ensuing battle with an Alien, while the third allies itself with the lone surviving human, Alexa "Lex" Woods (
Sanaa Lathan), while making their way out of the pyramid as it is destroyed by the Predator's wrist bomb and eventually does battle with the escaped Alien Queen on the surface. The Queen is defeated by being dragged down by a water tower into the dark depths of the frozen sea, but not before she fatally wounds the last Predator. The orbiting Predator mothership uncloaks and the crew retrieves the fallen Predator. A Predator elder gives Lex a spear as a sign of respect, and then departs. Once in orbit it is revealed that an Alien
Chestburster was present within the corpse, thus a Predalien hybrid is born.
Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem (2007) Set immediately after the events of the previous film, the
Predalien hybrid aboard the Predator scout ship, having just separated from the mothership shown in the previous film, has grown to full adult size and sets about killing the Predators aboard the ship, causing it to crash in the small town of
Gunnison, Colorado. The last surviving Predator activates a distress beacon containing a video recording of the Predalien, which is received by a
veteran Predator on the Predator homeworld, who sets off towards Earth to "clean up" the infestation. When it arrives, the Predator tracks the Aliens into a section of the sewer below the town. He removes evidence of their presence as he moves along using a corrosive blue liquid and uses a laser net to try to contain the creatures, but the Aliens still manage to escape into the town above. The Predator fashions a plasma pistol from its remaining plasma caster and hunts Aliens all across town, accidentally cutting the power to the town in the process. During a confrontation with human survivors, the Predator loses its plasma pistol. The Predator then fights the Predalien singlehandedly, and the two mortally wound one another just as the US air force drops a tactical nuclear bomb on the town, incinerating both combatants along with the Predalien's warriors and hive, as well as the few remaining humans in the town. The salvaged plasma pistol is then taken to Ms. Cullen Yutani of the Yutani Corporation, foreshadowing an advancement in technology leading to the future events of the
Alien films.
Future Colin and Greg Strause were adamant that they wanted to develop
Alien vs. Predator 3 during the production of
Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem. They essentially sought to make an
AVP-film in space and set in the future, but by the time they were hired, 20th Century Fox had already decided to go with Salerno's script set on Earth. They incorporated elements of their ideas into the second film, such as the Predator home planet. In 2008 "an anonymous source over at 20th Century Fox got in touch with us over the weekend to relay the news another
Aliens vs. Predator sequel is a 'certainty' at this point. If you recall, the brothers Strause – who helmed the Christmas release
Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem – stated Fox was going to take a 'wait-and-see' approach to a third chapter, furthermore, that the story would have to continue in space." On October 28, 2010, io9 published an exclusive interview with the Brothers Strause in which they revealed that
Alien vs. Predator 3 would have led directly into
Alien. Greg Strause stated that, "The original ending for
AVPR, that we pitched them, ended up on the Alien homeward [sic], and actually going from the Predator gun, that you see at the end, it was going to transition from that gun to a logo of a Weyland-Yutani spaceship that was heading to an alien planet. And then we were actually going to cut down to the surface [of the alien planet] and you were going to see a hunt going on. It was going to be a whole tribe of predators going against this creature that we called "King Alien." It's this huge giant winged alien thing. And that was going to be the lead-in, to show that the fact that the Predator gun [at the end of
AVPR] is the impetus of all the technological advancements that allowed humans to travel in space. Which leads up to the
Alien timeline." When asked about the ending sequence of
Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem, that the Predator-weapon handed to Ms. Yutani would lead to humans developing advanced space travel technology, Greg stated, "That was the idea. They never got any of the equipment from the first Predators. It's the first time they ever received any intact working technology left over. So they could take that and reverse engineer, figure out what the power source was – all of those things. And in theory, that would enable that company [Weyland-Yutani] to make massive advancements in technology and dominate the space industry. That was the whole idea, was to literally continue from Ms. Yutani getting the gun – and then cut to 50 years in the future, and there's spaceships now. We've made a quantum leap in space travel. That was going to set up the ending, which would then set up what
AVP was going to be, which would take place 100 years in the future. That was kind of the plan." In 2015, having worked on the special effects of
Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem, VFX make-up artist David Woodruff (the son of Tom Woodruff who worked on both the
Alien and
Terminator franchises) participated in an interview with TheTerminatorFans, and when asked about the situation of a third chapter in the
AVP-trilogy, he stated, "I haven't heard anything about a 3rd installment, not even rumors. This Neill Blomkamp project is the first possibility I've seen or heard of another
Alien film and I'm all about it. I know the guys at Amalgamated Dynamics are pushing for something like this too. It's time." In 2015, during the
London Film and Comic Con, Sigourney Weaver stated that she asked to have Ripley killed in
Alien 3 because she knew that Fox were moving forward with
Alien vs. Predator. Peter Briggs (writer of
The Hunt: Alien vs. Predator) responded by praising all films in the franchise and pointing out that the
AVP-films were more successful than Weaver's last two
Alien-films, and noting that "There's a terrific
Alien vs. Predator movie still to be made by someone. It just hasn't happened yet." In mid-2018,
Shane Black, the director of
The Predator, tweeted his belief that a third
Alien vs. Predator can still happen, indicating the studio's interest in both franchises. A ComicBookRumours.com article from July suggested Fox may attempt an "
AVP Cinematic Universe" after Ridley Scott finishes making
the Alien prequels, after which Fox considered a "soft reboot" to the
Alien series with new/original characters, a new setting, and new timeline, which the same article also suggested, if it were to happen, could potentially take place within the same continuity as the
Predator films and
AVP films. Noting
Predators featured a Xenomorph skull cameo (along with other references to
Aliens) and Lex Woods' Xenomorph tail spear from
Alien vs. Predator make an appearance in
The Predator. Alternate endings produced for
The Predator displaying a Weyland-Yutani Corp pod containing Ripley and Newt (both played by Breanna Watkins) wearing a Weyland-Yutani breathing apparatus shaped like a Xenomorph Facehugger was also intended to further connect to the
Alien films. In August 2024, Fede Álvarez, the director of
Alien: Romulus, also said he was open to directing a third
Alien vs. Predator film, proposing to Melanie Brooks and Anthony D'Alessandro of
Deadline Hollywood that he would enjoy directing it along with
Dan Trachtenberg, the director of the
Predator films
Prey (2022),
Predator: Killer of Killers (2025) and
Predator: Badlands (2025): "Maybe it's something I have to co-direct with my buddy Dan. Maybe we should do like Quentin Tarantino|[Quentin] Tarantino and
Robert Rodriguez did with From Dusk till Dawn|[
From]
Dusk till Dawn. I'll direct a half, and he'll direct another half." In October of the same year, Steve Abell (President of Fox Studios) stated that the studio has plans to eventually develop an
Alien and
Predator crossover film. The Weyland-Yutani Corporation featured in the
Alien franchise along with their particular android model featured in
Alien: Romulus appears in the 2025 film
Predator: Badlands as a stepping stone towards a third
Alien vs. Predator film. In April 2025, journalist
Jeff Sneider reported that there is a Predator included in the script for the
Romulus sequel, which would mark another step towards laying the groundwork for a third crossover film. In October 2025, Trachtenberg stated in an interview with IGN that
Predator: Badlands is set in the farthest future after the events of all the previous
Alien and
Alien vs. Predator films and the
Alien: Earth TV-series so as to avoid any potential continuity conflicts, considering
Romulus and
Earth were still in production when
Badlands was being produced. ==Unreleased animated series==