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Alien Vs. Alien Free FREE ALIEN VS. ALIEN PDF Gini Koch | 498 pages | 04 Dec 2012 | Penguin Putnam Inc | 9780756407704 | English | New York, United States Alien vs. Predator (film) - Wikipedia Alien vs. Predator Alien vs. Alien known as AVP: Alien vs. Predator is a science fiction action film written and directed by Paul W. It is the first film installment of the Alien vs. Predator franchiseadapting a crossover bringing together the eponymous creatures of the Alien and Predator series, a concept which originated in a comic book. Anderson wrote the story together with the creators of the Alien franchise, Dan O'Bannon and Ronald Shusettand Anderson and Shane Salerno adapted the story into a screenplay. In the film, scientists are caught in the crossfire of an ancient battle between Aliens and Predators as they attempt to escape a bygone pyramid. A sequel, Aliens vs. Predator: Requiemwas released in He attempts to claim it for his multinational communications company, Weyland Industries, a subsidiary of the Weyland Corporation, and assembles a team of experts to investigate. The team includes archaeologists, linguistic experts, drillers, mercenaries, and a guide named Alexa "Lex" Woods Sanaa Lathan. As a Predator ship reaches Earth's orbit, it fires an energy beam aimed at the pyramid site. When the team arrives at the abandoned whaling station above the heat source, they find a perfectly circular, unnatural tunnel running directly beneath the ice towards the pyramid. Weyland shows the team satellite images showing that the passage was not there 24 hours ago. The exploration team descend the tunnel and locate the mysterious pyramid and begin to explore it, soon finding evidence Alien vs. Alien a prehistoric civilization and what appears to be a sacrificial Alien vs. Alien filled with human skeletons. Inexplicably, all the skeletons appear to have ruptured rib cages. Meanwhile, three Alien vs. Alien — Scar, Celtic and Chopper — arrive and kill the remaining team members on the surface. They make their way down to the pyramid and arrive just as the team unwittingly activates the structure and are trapped within it. The Alien Queen awakes from cryogenic stasis Alien vs. Alien begins to produce eggs. When the eggs hatch, several facehuggers attach themselves to humans trapped in the sacrificial chamber. Chestbursters emerge from the humans and quickly grow Alien vs. Alien adult Xenomorphs. Conflict erupts between the Alien vs. Alien, Xenomorphs, and humans, resulting in several deaths. The two witness Scar kill a facehugger and a Xenomorph with a shuriken before unmasking and marking himself with the blood of the facehugger. After Lex and Sebastian leave, another facehugger attaches itself to Scar due to him not wearing his mask. Through translation of the pyramid's hieroglyphsLex and Sebastian learn that the Predators have been visiting Earth for thousands of years. It was they who taught early human civilizations how to build pyramids, and were worshipped as gods. Every years they visit Earth to take part in a rite of passage by which several humans sacrifice themselves as hosts for the Xenomorphs, creating the "ultimate prey" for the Predators to hunt. As a fail-safe, if overwhelmed, the Alien vs. Alien would activate a self-destruct device to eliminate the Xenomorphs and themselves. The two deduce that this is why the current Predators are at the pyramid, and that the heat bloom was a ruse to attract humans to the site for the sole purpose of making new Xenomorphs Alien vs. Alien hunt. Lex and Sebastian decide that the Predators must be allowed to succeed in their hunt so that the Xenomorphs do not escape to the surface. Sebastian is captured by a Xenomorph, Alien vs. Alien only Lex and Scar to fight the Xenomorph. Scar uses parts of a dead Xenomorph to fashion weapons for Lex and the two form an alliance. The Xenomorph Queen, using her own acidic blood, is freed from her restraints and, along with the other Xenomorphs, begins pursuing Lex and Scar. Just as they are about to escape, Scar detaches and uses a bomb in his wrist module to destroy the pyramid and the remaining Xenomorphs and eggs. Lex and Scar Alien vs. Alien the surface, however the Xenomorph Queen has survived and continues chasing them. They defeat the Queen by hooking her chains to the whaling post's water tank and pushing it over a cliff, dragging her to the ocean floor. Scar, however, had been impaled by the Xenomorph Queen's tail and succumbs to his wounds, dying. A Predator ship uncloaks and several Predators appear. They retrieve their fallen comrade and an elite Predator presents Lex with one of their spear weapons as a gift. The other Predators recognize her skill as a warrior by the symbol that Scar burned on her cheek before he died, using alien blood. The Predators' spaceship flies off, leaving Lex behind. Lex walks over to a snowcat and leaves the area. The Predators leave Scar's Alien vs. Alien on a plinth in front of a window on the Alien vs. Alien. Moments later, a Predalien with Alien and Predator traits erupts from Scar's chest, leading into the events of Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem. Before 20th Century Fox gave Alien vs. Alien director Ridley Scott had talked with Cameron, stating "I think it would be a lot of fun, but the most important thing is to get the story right. On learning that Fox intended to pursue Alien vs. PredatorCameron believed the film would Alien vs. Alien the validity of the franchise" and ceased work on his story, "To Alien vs. Alien, that was Frankenstein Meets Werewolf. It was Universal just taking their assets and starting to play them off against each other Milking it. PredatorCameron remarked that "it was actually pretty good. I think of the five Alien films, I'd rate it third. I actually liked it. I actually liked it a lot. Predator films. When asked in May if he Alien vs. Alien watched them, Scott Alien vs. Alien, "No. I couldn't do that. I couldn't quite take Alien vs. Alien step. The concept of Alien vs. Predator originated from the Aliens versus Predator comic book in It was also hinted at when an Alien skull appeared in a trophy case aboard the Predator ship in Predator 2. Alien is Alien vs. Alien good idea that Alien vs. Alien probably never Alien vs. Alien. The project was delayed chiefly because the studio was working on Alien: Resurrection. As there were six producers between the film franchises, Predator producer John Davis had difficulty securing the rights as the producers were worried about a film featuring the two creatures. Paul W. Anderson pitched Davis a story he worked on for eight years, and showed him concept art created by Randy Bowen. Salerno spent six months writing the shooting script, finished its development, and stayed on for revisions throughout the film's production. Early reports claimed the story Alien vs. Alien about humans who tried to lure Predators with Alien eggs, although the idea was scrapped. Predatordescribing a scenario in which Alien vs. Alien taught ancient humans to build pyramids Alien vs. Alien used Earth for rite of passage rituals every years in which they would hunt Aliens. To explain how these ancient civilisations "disappeared without a trace", Anderson came up with the idea that the Predators, if overwhelmed by the Aliens, would use their self-destruct weapons to kill everything in the area. Lovecraft 's novella At the Mountains of Madness served as an inspiration for the film, and several elements of the Aliens vs. Predator comic series were included. As Alien vs. Predator was intended to be a sequel to the Predator films and Alien vs. Alien to the Alien series, Anderson was cautious of contradicting continuity in the franchises. He chose to set the film on the remote Norwegian Antarctic island of Bouvet commenting, "It's definitely the most hostile environment on Earth and probably the closest to an Alien surface you can get. So there's nothing in this movie that contradicts anything that already exists. The first actor to be cast for Alien vs. Although the Alien films are set hundreds of years in the future, Anderson wanted to keep continuity with the series by including a familiar actor. According to Anderson, Weyland becomes known for the discovery of the pyramid, and as a result the Weyland-Yutani Corporation models the Bishop android Alien vs. Alien the Alien films after him; "when the Bishop android is created in years time, it's created with the face of the creator. It's kind of like Microsoft building an android in years time that has the face of Bill Gates. Producer Davis said, "There's a truly international flavor to the cast, and gives the film a lot of character. Sanaa Lathan was selected, and one week later she flew to Prague to begin filming. The filmmakers knew there would be comparisons to Alien heroine Ellen Ripley and did not want a clone of the character, but wanted to make her similar while adding something different. Anderson reported in an interview that California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger was willing to reprise his role as Major Alan "Dutch" Schaeffer from Predator in a short cameo appearance if he lost the recall election on condition that the filming should take place at his residence. Actress Sigourney Alien vs. Alienwho starred as Ellen Ripley in the Alien series, said she was happy not to be in the film, as a possible crossover was "the reason I wanted my character Alien vs. Alien die in the first place", and thought the concept "sounded awful".
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