AVP: Alien vs. Predator (2004) on Netflix
PG-1320041h 41mActionAdventureSci-Fi
A satellite spots a heat bloom beneath Bouvet Island. Industrialist Charles Bishop Weyland traces it to a buried pyramid and brings scientists, mercenaries and guide Lex Woods to investigate.
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A satellite picks up a heat bloom beneath Bouvet Island, and industrialist Charles Bishop Weyland traces it to a pyramid buried two thousand feet under the ice. Terminally ill, he wants the discovery claimed in his own name, so he assembles archaeologists, linguists, mercenaries and the mountaineering guide Lex Woods and takes them to the island. At an abandoned whaling station the team finds a freshly cut tunnel leading down toward the pyramid and follows it into chambers built for an ancient civilization and into a sacrificial room full of human skeletons with ruptured rib cages. The structure seals around them, and a Predator ship has already melted its own opening through the ice.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about AVP: Alien vs. Predator (2004)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- James Cameron had been developing a fifth Alien film but abandoned it once Fox pursued Alien vs. Predator, calling the crossover "Frankenstein Meets Werewolf"; after actually watching the finished film he changed his mind, saying he'd rank it third among the five Alien films and that he liked it a lot.
- After the film's release, writer James Muller sued the studio and director Paul W. S. Anderson, claiming the screenplay was copied from a script he had written eight years earlier; a federal judge dismissed the suit as "frivolous and objectively unreasonable" and made Muller's side pay Fox $40,000 in legal fees.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger reportedly agreed to reprise his Predator role in a cameo if he lost California's 2003 recall election, on condition the scene be filmed at his home; he won the election instead and never appeared, while Sigourney Weaver said she was relieved not to be involved, calling the crossover concept "awful."
- Building the pyramid sets in Los Angeles would have cost director Paul W. S. Anderson an estimated $20 million; building them instead at Barrandov Studios in Prague cost only $2 million, a crucial saving on a budget under $50 million.
- To avoid a man-in-a-suit look, effects house ADI built a hydraulic Alien puppet that needed six operators to run: one for the head and body, two for the arms, and a sixth just to keep its signals synced to the computer.
- The Alien Queen was brought to life through three separate builds working together: a 4.8-meter practical version needing 12 puppeteers to operate, a smaller 1.2-meter puppet, and a fully computer-generated version.
