Wanting a director with experience in effects-driven blockbusters, the studio eventually selected the Strause Brothers to helm the project. However, when Anderson exited the proposed rematch to work on his Death Race reboot, Fox had to look elsewhere for filmmakers willing to tackle their biggest sci-fi properties. That’s why it’s only natural that Twentieth Century Fox decided to cash in on the picture’s compelling cliff-hanger ending by almost immediately greenlighting a sequel.

While that film was (unfairly) lambasted by critics for being a crowd-pleasing B-movie that reduced its legendary extraterrestrials to mere intergalactic wrestlers, it still made quite the killing at the box-office. Anderson finally brought it to the big screen back in 2004. In this edition of The Silver Lining, we’ll be discussing the Strause Brothers’ controversial sequel, Aliens vs Predator: Requiem.ĭespite fans clamoring for a live-action incarnation of the Alien vs Predator franchise, the proposed adaptation was infamously stuck in development hell for years until Paul W.S.

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