Monster mashup... The Alien/Predator hybrid.
Sadly, the Alien franchise has been pretty much dead in the water ever since David Fincher got his hands on it way back in 1992 and decided to fill it with a cast of British character actors.
But the fanboy brigade helped ensure 2004's Alien vs Predator was a commercial, if not critical hit, so we thought you might like to see what the offspring of the two monsters looks like in the new film Aliens Vs Predator: Requiem.
The new movie is being directed by visual effects experts Colin and Greg Strause (of 300 fame), and according to an interview in USA Today the pair are promising a return to the dark vistas of the first film in the series.
By my reckoning, the only way for Alien to get back on track would be to reinstall Ridley Scott in the director's chair and let him move it forward in a new direction. And amazingly, Scott recently said he wished he'd been given the opportunity to do just that.
Is your curiosity tickled enough by the prospect of an Alien/Predator hybrid to make you go and see this film? Or are both franchises deader than Ellen Ripley?
