Aliens vs Predator: Requiem - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[jessica]

This marks the second movie, in which Ian Whyte has played a Predator. Next to Kevin Peter Hall, he is the only other actor to do so.

[gerald]

Danny Glover, who starred in Predator 2 (1990), was considered to reprise his role as Mike Harrigan, now retired.

[jesse]

Film is supposed to take place in Gunnison, Colorado, but was filmed in Vancouver Canada (which looks Pacific Northwest wet and wooded, not Rocky Mountian high and dry). The entire third act of the film takes place at night during one long rain shower, when it only typically rains in Gunnison for less than an hour in the early afternoon for about two weeks in September.

[camila]

Directors Colin Strause and Greg Strause originally pitched an additional ending that was to take place after Ms Yutani takes possession of the Predator shotgun. The gun would transition into a Weyland-Yutani logo on a spaceship 50 years in the future, heading towards the Aliens' home planet. The scene would then shift to the planet's surface, where a tribe of Predators are trying to catch a huge winged dinosaur-like Alien (nicknamed 'King Alien'). The idea was that the Predator gun was reversed-engineered and led to the scientific breakthroughs that gave the Weyland-Yutani company the ability of interstellar space-flight. The scene was supposed to be a teaser for a third AvP movie that would take place before Alien (1979). However, the scene was scrapped and so were any plans for this sequel.

[frances]

A voice artist was brought in to perform various Predator noises, after the directors realized that audio samples and tapes containing the original sound effects had been either destroyed, or were of poor quality.

[charlie]

It was at one time planned to include shots of the Aliens' homeworld as a post-credit scene. Conceptual art was created, and it was even storyboarded, but ultimately, the idea was dropped, in favor of using it in a potential third film. This never materialized after the critical and commercial failure of the film, with the studio deciding to abandon the AVP franchise in favor of the Alien (1979) prequels Prometheus (2012) and Alien: Covenant (2017). Not only did these movies largely ignore Alien vs. Predator (2004) and AvP: Requiem, they also implied that the Aliens may have been genetically engineered, and therefore don't have an original homeworld.

[cassandra]

Several sounds are intentionally recycled from previous "Alien" and "Predator" movies as tribute to those films. These include, but are not limited to: actual Predator (like growls and tracking sounds from the helmet) and Alien noises (like hissing and screeching); the beeping of the motion tracker from [Aliens](/category/759/Aliens) (1986), used in this movie during the opening credits, and as the sound made on the tracking screen showing the bomber heading towards its target; and the computers around Colonel Stevens make the same sounds as the Mother computer from Alien (1979). The only original sound that could not be re-used, was the Predator's characteristic chirruping sound, which was recreated specifically for this movie.

[steve]

It is the shortest installment in either the Alien or Predator franchise, with a runtime of ninety-four minutes (theatrical version).

[jessica]

According to the DVD commentary, Colonel Stevens (Robert Joy) was originally written as Garber (Adam Baldwin) from Predator 2 (1990). When Baldwin couldn't be scheduled, the character was changed to Colonel Stevens.

[jesus]

Although not much background is given on Dallas (Steven Pasquale) and his brother Ricky (Johnny Lewis), the original script had Dallas describe himself as a "thief for fifteen years". Their father is away working on a rig, and sends money for the rent each month; their mother is out of the picture. There was also a scene that revealed that Dallas had been in jail for three years for something that Ricky had done, but Dallas took the blame because he didn't want his brother growing up a juvenile delinquent like himself.

[nicholas]

Yutani (of the Weyland-Yutani Corporation from the Alien films) was originally going to appear in Alien vs. Predator (2004) as a man called John Yutani. Peter Weller and Gary Busey were sought for the role, but the character was eventually written out.

[frances]

Johnny Lewis (Ricky) also starred in Sons of Anarchy (2008), in which he played Half-Sack. Tommy Flanagan (Mark Verheid) was also in Sons of Anarchy (2008), in which he played Chibs.

[gerald]

Steven Pasquale and John Oritz, are both left-handed.

[victoria]

The Predator was nicknamed "Wolf" by the filmmakers, after the character Winston Wolfe in Pulp Fiction (1994). His role in the film, like Wolfe's, is described as that of a "cleaner" - one who covers up assassinations, accidents, and other messy situations.

[jesse]

Something that was never seen before in an Alien film, the Predalien is capable of implanting embryos down people's throats using its inner jaw. It was explained by the Strause brothers, that the Predalien was a Queen, that used this method as a temporary mechanism before maturing enough to lay eggs. This was also touched upon before, in the assembly cut of Alien 3 (1992), where a special type of facehugger is seen capable of implanting two embryos, one, a regular Alien, and the other, a Queen, inside Ripley and an Ox (a dog in the theatrical cut), which explains how there could be two Aliens in the film, despite what appears to be only one egg on the Sulaco. This facehugger's corpse can be seen next to the ox's dead body for a brief second, despite the facehugger clearly looking like a normal one in the opening scene of the film. Despite this, AVP: Alien vs. Predator (2004) shows that a normal facehugger impregnated the Predator, which would eventually become a host to a Predalien. This is either a continuity error, or a deliberate retcon by the directors.

[Mai Lan]

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