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Alien vs. Predator (referred to as AvP for short) was first considered when screenwriter Peter Briggs (later to work on Judge Dredd, Freddy vs Jason, and Hellboy) sold his spec screenplay, springboarded from and drastically rewriting the Dark Horse Comic Book, to 20th Century Fox in 1991. Download high resolution version (485x719, 109 KB)© 2004 Twentieth Century Fox This work is copyrighted. ... Paul William Scott Anderson (Born: March 4, 1965 in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England, United Kingdom-) is a British filmmaker, producer and screenwriter. ... Paul William Scott Anderson (Born: March 4, 1965 in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England, United Kingdom-) is a British filmmaker, producer and screenwriter. ... Dan OBannon (born Daniel Thomas OBannon on September 30, 1946 in St. ... Sanaa Lathan is a American actress, born September 19, 1971 in New York City. ... Lance Henriksen is an American actor and potter [1]. He was born May 5, 1940 in New York City. ... Colin Salmon (1962) is an British actor best known as Charles Robinson in three James Bond films. ... John Davis is the name of several persons: John Davis (1550?-1605), an English navigator and explorer. ... 20th Century Fox logo Fox Plaza, the company headquarters. ... August 13 is the 225th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (226th in leap years), with 140 days remaining. ... 2004 is a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Peter Briggs is a British screenwriter, responsible for many high-profile subjects, a number of which have suffered due to bad luck. Briggs hit the screenwriting scene in 1991 (after being a film cameraman for several years) with his ingenious Alien vs Predator screenplay, sold to 20th Century Fox. ... This article is about the comic-book character Judge Dredd. ... Movie poster for Freddy Vs. ... Hellboy is a comic book adventurer and paranormal investigator. ... 20th Century Fox logo Fox Plaza, the company headquarters. ...

Released in theaters on August 13, 2004. It is a cross-over between the Alien and Predator movie franchises. The Aliens and Predators have appeared together in previous works in other media, but this movie marks their first combined cinematic appearance. August 13 is the 225th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (226th in leap years), with 140 days remaining. ... 2004 is a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Alien (1979), directed by Ridley Scott, is an extremely popular and influential science fiction/horror film that spawned several sequels and imitators. ... Predator is a 1987 science fiction movie that was directed by John McTiernan and released on Friday, June 12. ... on the SNES Alien vs. ...

In the movie, a satellite owned by the Weyland Corporation finds an ancient pyramid buried deep beneath Antarctica. The Corporation recruits several scientists/archaeologists to learn more about the pyramid. They soon find themselves in the middle of a brutal war between two alien species, the Xenomorphs (from the Alien movie series) and the Yautja (from the Predator series), thus giving the movie its tagline "No matter who wins, we lose" (also seen as "Whoever wins, we lose" in some situations). A satellite is an object that orbits another object (known as its primary). ... Weyland-Yutani is a fictional corporation that forms an essential part of the setting of the Alien movie, and its sequels. ... Geometric shape created by connecting a polygonal base to an apex A pyramid is a geometric shape formed by connecting a polygonal base and a point, called the apex, by triangular faces. ... This article is about the profession. ... Importance and applicability Archaeology is the study of human nature and attempts to illuminate the question of what it means to be human. ... The Xenomorph is a deadly fictional monster from the Alien universe, designed by the Swiss painter H. R. Giger. ... Yautja, more commonly known as simply Predators or (in the movie) hunters, are a fictional alien species that first appeared in the movie Predator, followed by Predator 2. ...

Afraid of bad press, the filmmakers and publisher 20th Century Fox decided not to let critics view the film in advance. Once critics were allowed to review the film they were, as expected, not very positive about it. Nonetheless, the film did reach the number one spot during the first weekend of its release. 20th Century Fox logo Fox Plaza, the company headquarters. ...

Filmmakers

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Cast

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Plot and lore information

A brief plot outline

Act 1

A commercial satellite finds a buried pyramid in Antarctica. A team is sent to investigate it. The team sets up a base and then descends to the pyramid via a tunnel. They are unaware of the dangers they will soon face. A satellite is an object that orbits another object (known as its primary). ... Geometric shape created by connecting a polygonal base to an apex A pyramid is a geometric shape formed by connecting a polygonal base and a point, called the apex, by triangular faces. ...

Act 2

Inside the pyramid, the team is attacked by Aliens (known as Xenomorphs), a bloodthirsty species from deep space. To make matters worse, they are also attacked by the Predators, another alien race who are basically advanced interstellar hunters.

The Aliens and Predators engage in many ferocious battles within the confines of the pyramid while the humans act as little more than bystanders caught in the crossfire (or, in a few cases, as hosts for the Aliens to breed with). However, due to a miscalculation on their part, the Predators are not able to obtain their regular hunting cannons. The Aliens, having the advantage, cut through the ranks of both the Humans and the Predators.

Act 3

Soon, there is only one remaining human and one remaining Predator. They save each other's lives and then form an alliance, cooperating with one another to escape. Using the high-energy self-destruct device built into the Predator's wrist-mounted computer, they manage to annihilate most of the Aliens right before they escape. However, the Alien Queen survives the blast and engages the duo in battle on the surface. After a dramatic battle, the Queen sinks to the bottom of the ocean and the Predator is slain, but his comrades award his human partner the respect she is due.

The plot in detail

Prelude

The film starts when a satellite owned by the Weyland Corporation detects an unusual heat signature on Bouvet Island, a remote island just outside the coast of Antarctica. After further satellite scans, the company finds a huge pyramid buried deep beneath the ice. It then recruits a group of scientists and archaeologists to enter the structure and investigate it. A satellite is an object that orbits another object (known as its primary). ... Weyland-Yutani is a fictional corporation that forms an essential part of the setting of the Alien movie, and its sequels. ... Geometric shape created by connecting a polygonal base to an apex A pyramid is a geometric shape formed by connecting a polygonal base and a point, called the apex, by triangular faces. ... Icicles A natural, 4 tonne, block of ice on a beach in Iceland Ice is the solid form of water. ... This article is about the profession. ... Importance and applicability Archaeology is the study of human nature and attempts to illuminate the question of what it means to be human. ...

The scientists are briefed about their mission, and they each offer their opinion. One points out that the pyramid resembles those built by several different cultures, specifically the Cambodians, the Egyptians and the Aztecs. Another suggests that it is perhaps the one original pyramid which all subsequent ones were based upon. The team's guide, mountaineer Alexa Woods (played by Sanaa Lathan), is the only one who objects, saying that the team needed at least three weeks to prepare for the trip. However, Charles Bishop Weyland, owner of the Corporation that bears his name, insists that there is no time as other competitors would soon be heading towards the site themselves. He threatens to hire somebody else as a guide if Woods would not lead them. Reluctantly, Woods agrees and the team sets out. The Aztecs were a Mesoamerican people of central Mexico in the 14th, 15th and 16th century. ... Sanaa Lathan is a American actress, born September 19, 1971 in New York City. ... Bishop 341-B is a fictional character from the Alien series of films, an android created by the Weyland-Yutani corporation and played by Lance Henriksen. ...

Arriving in Antarctica

The team travels to the site which is Razorback Point, a whaling station abandoned in 1904 during a battle between Xenomorph Aliens and Yautja Predators (as shown in the DVD extended version), but upon arriving, they discover that a huge hole has already been dug through the ice and to the underground entrance of the pyramid. Unbeknownst to the humans, the Predators have had foreknowledge of the building and dug the hole for the team to lure them into the pyramid and begin the hatching season for the Aliens. Using a high-technology laser beam, a passage is neatly carved out for the team at a precise 30-degree angle. The crew of the oceanographic research vessel Princesse Alice, of Albert Grimaldi (later Prince Albert I of Monaco) pose while flensing a catch Whaling is the hunting and killing of whales. ... DVD is an optical disc storage media format that can be used for storing data, including movies with high video and sound quality. ...

They set up a surface camp and send the scientists down through the tunnel while the diggers and a few guards stay on the surface. Not long later, when the scientists are out of sight, a few Predators roam the area, their cloaking devices activated, and slay all the humans. Their corpses are ritually hung, upside-down, as trophies. With regard to living things, a body is the integral physical material of an individual, and contrasts with soul, personality and behavior. ... A ritual is a formalised, predetermined set of symbolic actions generally performed in a particular environment at a regular, recurring interval. ... Some trophies seen in the London Irish clubhouse at Sunbury in 2002. ...

Reaching the underground pyramid

The human scientists set up a small base at the base of the tunnel and then venture out to explore the structure. They come across many carvings of predators and aliens engaged in battle and also some hieroglyphics, which they translate into "Only the Chosen shall enter." They do not understand any of it yet. Hieroglyphs are a system of writing used by the Ancient Egyptians, using a combination of logographic, syllabic, and alphabetic elements. ...

The team moves into the mysterious sacrificial chamber with many human skeletons lying on tables around the room. A team member notes that "something" seems to have burst out from the skeletons' chests, as the damage to their skeletal structure is not indicative of regular sacrificial procedures. Weyland suggests that they split up so that one team can continue to explore the sacrificial chambers, while the other goes on to explore the lower chamber beneath the sacrificial chamber. In biology, the skeleton or skeletal system is the biological system providing support in living organisms. ...

Meeting the Aliens

Meanwhile, another team has discovered an altar locked by some sort of puzzle. One of its members recognizes it as an Aztec calendar and solves the puzzle, spurring some age-old mechanism to life. The movie shifts perspectives, displaying what the orbiting Predators see on their sensors. It zooms in to the very core of the pyramid and we see an Alien queen being raised out of what looks to be a cryogenic pit. She is heavily chained and cannot move freely. Still struggling against her chains, she manages to lay a series of eggs which are then moved by a mechanical conveyer belt to somewhere else in the pyramid. A puzzle is a problem or enigma presented as entertainment; that is written down, acted out, etc. ... Aztec calendar. ... In physics, an orbit is the path that an object makes, around another object, whilst under the influence of a source of centripetal force, such as gravity. ... A sensor is a technological device or biological organ that detects, or senses, a signal or physical condition. ... For the Queen bee in clique & social groups, see Clique Peanut-like queen brood cells extend outward and downward from the broodcomb. ... Cryogenics is the study of very low temperatures or the production of the same, and is often confused with cryobiology, the study of the effect of low temperatures on organisms, or the study of cryopreservation. ... An average Whooping Crane egg is 102 mm long, and weighs 208 grams A baby tortoise emerges from a reptile egg. ...

Back in the altar room, the humans discover that the altar acted as a safe for several strange, cylindrical-rectangular objects (days, months, years) that are currently set for 1904. The team does not know what to make of them yet, but audience members familiar with Predator culture will recognize them as the Predators' shoulder-mounted Plasma Casters. When the scientists lift the guns out of the coffers, they activate mechanisms inside the pyramid which start the walls, ceilings, and floors of the pyramid sliding around. Barriers slide out of walls, creating hallways where there was open space, and turning open doors into stone walls. An audience is the/a group of people who participate in and experience or encounter a work of art, literature, theatre, music or academics in any medium. ... A wall is a usually solid structure that defines and sometimes protects space. ... A ceiling is the lower surface of a horizontal slab covering a room or internal space. ... A hardwood floor (parquet) is a popular feature in many houses. ...

The camera moves to the sacrificial chamber that the other team was still in. We see the Queen Alien's eggs pop up from specially-designed crevices, and the humans become wary. One of them draws their guns and prepares to fire. Suddenly, before any of them can react, the eggs finish hatching and Alien facehuggers (small, scorpion-like alien hatchlings that attach to creatures' faces and then use them as a host to breed a full-grown Alien) leap onto the humans' faces. A camera is a device used to take pictures (usually photographs), either singly or in sequence, with or without sound, such as with video cameras. ... A scorpion is an invertebrate animal with eight legs belonging to the order Scorpiones in the class Arachnida. ... Reproduction is the creation of one thing as a copy of, product of, or replacement for a similar thing, e. ...

The remaining humans try to escape, but Weyland insists on taking one of the Plasma Casters as a souvenir. Woods complains, but eventually accept the fact Weyland will not depart without it. She offers to hold it as she is in better physical condition than Weyland, who is quite sick from what appears to be lung cancer.

Arrival of the Predators

Simultaneously, the Predators see everything that is happening on their scanners and at once realize that the humans, in removing the Plasma Casters from storage, have caused the Hunt to start. They finally rush into the pyramid in an attempt to reach their weapons, killing any humans they find along the way using their other weaponry. The humans, who are confused and split apart from one another by the newly-appeared walls, don't stand a chance. They are picked off in ones and twos between the Predators and the Aliens.

An explanation for everything

One of the scattered humans, an archaeologist, comes across a set of hieroglyphics that explain the purpose of the pyramid. The structure was one of many belonging to mankind's first civilization. Thousands of years ago, the Predators found a rural Earth, and settled on the planet, teaching the people of Earth how to build pyramids. The people thus believed that the Predators were gods and faithfully obeyed their wishes, including willingly sacrificing themselves to breed Aliens, which the Predators considered worthy prey. The Predators would then return every hundred years so their young could hunt the Aliens as a rite of passage. It becomes apparent that the Predators re-activated the machinery beneath the pyramid to lure modern humans there in order to initiate another hunt of the Aliens. Mankind may refer to: Human beings and their society An alias of professional wrestler Mick Foley The MMORTS Mankind The morality play Mankind. ... A civilization or civilisation has a variety of meanings related to human society. ... Earth, also known as the Earth, Terra, and (mostly in the 19th century) Tellus, is the third planet outward from the Sun. ...

Woods keeps this in mind and suggests that perhaps the remaining humans can team up with the Predators, who are mainly after the Aliens and not them. Woods suggests that the Predators need weapons to kill the Aliens, and by robbing the Predators of their weapons, the humans have caused an imbalance and hence the Predators were losing. She says that the Plasma Casters should be returned to the Predators so they can complete the hunt and kill the Aliens, saving themselves and the humans in the process.

Dwindling numbers

Eventually, almost all of the humans get captured (to be used as Alien hosts) or killed outright by both the Aliens and the Predators. Most of them die insignificant deaths, with their bodies serving as Alien hosts.

Mr. Weyland, however, was initially spared by a pursuing Predator. Using one of his special vision modes, the Predator sees that Weyland was suffering from some sort of health condition, possibly lung cancer due to the deformed tissue inside his chest, and ignored him. Killing incapacitated prey would be against the Predators' warrior code. Unluckily for him, however, Mr. Weyland becomes insulted by this act and attacks the Predator with a makeshift flamethrower when the Predator turns to leave. The Predator, uninjured, turns around and swiftly executes Weyland with his wrist blade. A warrior is a person habitually engaged in combat. ... German troops use a flamethrower on the Eastern Front during the Second World War French Foreign Legion combat engineers training with the flamethrower A flamethrower is a mechanical device designed to throw flames or, more correctly, project an ignited stream of liquid. ...

The Predators, being robbed of their primary weapons (the Plasma Casters), don't do much better. They fight off some Alien attackers but eventually succumb to their numbers and cunning. Only one Predator, seemingly the most skilled among them, survives for any length of time. Expertly using his weapons, he slays Alien after Alien and a couple of hiding facehuggers as well. Unfortunately, he missed one of the facehuggers and we see it leap towards the Predator as the screen fades to black mid-jump. The word plasma has a Greek root which means to be formed or molded (the word plastic shares this root). ...

Partnership

Eventually, all the non-Xenomorphs are neutralized except Alexa Woods and one Predator. The Predator manages to corner Woods and is about to kill her when she suddenly kneels down and offers him the Plasma Caster she held in her backpack. The Predator pauses for a moment and considers the offer. Suddenly, an Alien leaps from the background and attacks the Predator. They struggle for a while until Woods picks up the Predator's fallen Combi-Stick (an extendable-retractable spear) and drives it through the Alien, killing it. Then the Predator, having taken his Plasma Caster from Woods, uses it to kill a few fast-approaching Aliens. The Predator then turns to leave, but Lex makes it clear she's coming with him. Recognizing her value, the Predator agrees to let her go along. He makes her a spear using the end of the Alien's tail and a shield out of its acid-resistant skull (Xenomorph blood is acidic by nature and can easily injure unwary or unprotected enemies).

A few more kills

On their way out, they find some of the captured humans in an Alien breeding chamber. There are unhatched Alien eggs all over the floor, and a few humans are cocooned to the walls by some unknown material, most likely of Alien origin. They resemble insects in a spider's web. One of them is still alive and Woods tries to save him, but he says that it's too late as the alien is already in his body. He begs to be killed, "They [the aliens] must not reach the surface!" Woods reluctantly agrees, picking up one of her comrades' fallen pistols and fires the last shot into the man's head. Cocoon has a number of meanings. ... Families See Taxonomy section Spiders are invertebrate animals that produce silk, have eight legs and no wings. ... A Browning 9 millimetre semi-automatic pistol Ordnance pistol of the French Navy, 19th century. ...

The Predator, watching from behind Woods, finishes the act by catching the newly born Chestburster and breaking its neck. He then scans the eggs around him and realizes that there is no way he can finish the Hunt. Like his predecessors thousands of years ago, he realizes that he must use his atomic explosion device to clean up the situation. He enters something into his wrist computer and programs it to self-detonate after a set amount of time. He makes a "boom" gesture at Woods; she nods in understanding and the two of them begin a desperate run back towards the tunnel to the surface. The Xenomorph is a deadly fictional monster from the Alien universe, designed by the Swiss painter H. R. Giger. ...

They make it to the tunnel just in time and the pyramid and cave blows up as the duo rides a cart up the tunnel, pulled by an emergency-release pulley system. The pursuing Xenomorphs are annihilated by the blast. A pulley is a wheel with a groove along its edge, for holding a rope or cable. ...

Finale

The cart reaches the top of the tunnel and its momentum launches it out of the passage and onto the ice. The duo gets up and runs on foot to avoid being consumed by the still-expanding nuclear blast that is destroying Razorback Point. Once they reach safety, they look back down on the huge hole they created. Satisfied, the Predator turns to face Woods and takes off his mask to show her his true face, probably out of recognition and respect. Using a severed finger from an alien, the Predator marks her as a fellow Predator (or perhaps simply a warrior), leaving a "T" sign on her left cheek. Icicles A natural, 4 tonne, block of ice on a beach in Iceland Ice is the solid form of water. ... A 23 kiloton tower shot called BADGER, fired on April 18, 1953 at the Nevada Test Site, as part of the Operation Upshot-Knothole nuclear test. ... Masks in a Guatemalan Market Teen reading a book, while wearing a dinosaur mask A mask is a piece of material or kit worn on the face. ...

Without warning the Alien Queen, which apparently survived or avoided the explosion, jumps out of the snow and attacks the Predator. Having lost his Plasma Caster in an earlier fight, the Predator and his human partner have no choice but to fight the Queen with their hand weapons. The Queen, with its overwhelming size and strength, shrugs off the duo's attacks and even flings the Predator several dozen feet across the ice. As she moves in for the kill, Alexa thrusts a spear through the Queen's head, distracting it and saving the Predator. Then, as the Predator gets up and continues fighting the Alien, Alexa secretly ties one of the chains still trailing from the Queen to an enormous separator vat located on the edge of the crater. The Predator understands what she is doing and lures the Queen to the edge. As the Queen shifts her attention back to Alexa, the Predator leaps high into the air, placing himself near the Queen's head, and performs an amazing sideway thrust using his Combi-Stick. While she screeches in pain, the humanoids push on the vat until it nearly falls over, but one remaining bolt holds it to the snow. Woods manages to cut it loose with the Predator's help, but the Queen uses the opportunity to spear the Predator with her tail, killing him.

The Queen tries to kill Woods as well, but the weight of the metal pulls her across the edge and into the icy depths below. We see her sink, deeper and deeper into the Antarctic waters. It is unclear whether this actually kills her, as she has been able to survive past cryogenic storage in the Predator's temple and at least one other alien has been shown to withstand enormous pressure (see Alien 3). Nonetheless, it is her final appearance in this particular movie. Alien 3 DVD cover Alien is a science fiction/horror movie that opened May 22, 1992. ...

Meanwhile, Woods stands over the Predator's corpse. As she does so, an entire circle of Predators uncloak around her. They retrieve their fallen hunter, carrying his body on a stretcher back to their ship. The leader Predator sees the fallen warrior, walks towards Woods, and stares at her. Recognizing the "T" mark left by the Predator, he offers her a Combi Stick, signifying her acceptance as a Predator warrior. He then returns to his ship and it takes off and leaves Earth.

As it departs, the movie ends with a final shot of an Alien with distinctively Predator-like mandibles bursting out of the fallen Predator's chest. This marks the cinematic debut of the Predalien, an Alien borne of a Predator host (instead of the usual human ones). The Predalien is a fictional character from the Alien vs. ...

Historical inaccuracies

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Plot hole speculations

There has been a theory about the entire earth shell having shifted once, revealing the outline of Antarctica, right after the end of the ice age. Also, several maps from before the 16th century give detailed view of the land underneath the ice layer. Albert Einstein later did a minor investigation into this subject and stated rather enthusiasticly that it might very well be possible. The director probably chose to build on this theory, thus when the Yautja arrived on earth, they could have build a pyramid there. Since it contains signs of all languages, it could be assumed that this pyramid might have been a basic pyramid, something similar to the human habit to put memorials on places where new land was first entered. The pyramid contains three languages, indicating that three different clans have together claimed the planet earth as hunting ground. Once the humans came to evolve, each of these clans took a part of earth as hunting ground, and taught the humans their own clan's ancient language from before their digital letters. When the humans continued to thrive, the first pyramid was taken into use once more for the sake of tradition. Albert Einstein, by Yousuf Karsh Albert Einstein (March 14, 1879 â€“ April 18, 1955) was a German-born American theoretical physicist who is widely regarded as the greatest scientist of the 20th century. ... Yautja, more commonly known as simply Predators or (in the movie) hunters, are a fictional alien species that first appeared in the movie Predator, followed by Predator 2. ... Earth, also known as the Earth, Terra, and (mostly in the 19th century) Tellus, is the third planet outward from the Sun. ... Geometric shape created by connecting a polygonal base to an apex A pyramid is a geometric shape formed by connecting a polygonal base and a point, called the apex, by triangular faces. ... Geometric shape created by connecting a polygonal base to an apex A pyramid is a geometric shape formed by connecting a polygonal base and a point, called the apex, by triangular faces. ... Earth, also known as the Earth, Terra, and (mostly in the 19th century) Tellus, is the third planet outward from the Sun. ...

The apparent food source for the young chestbursters would be their hosts, and it also seems to be said that they came across a frozen team that had gone down a hundred years earlier.

Relationship to other works in the AvP universe

Fans of the Alien vs. Predator universe will see many familiar things in the AvP movie:

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