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

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[camila]

Kelly and Molly, and their mother-daughter relationship in the film, are a nod to Ripley and Newt in Aliens (1986).

[ronnie]

When Dallas and the survivors arrive at the hospital, Dallas says that they all must protect Kelly as they require Kelly to pilot the helicopter which is on the roof of the hospital. Although Kelly is a soldier and is capable of protecting and handling herself. The real person in the ground that needed protecting is Molly as Molly is the only member of the group whom wasn't armed with a weapon. Although the Predator doesn't kill children, the group would have to protect Molly from the Xenomorphs.

[gabriel]

The atomic bomb, used to blow up the town at the end of the movie, is shown to have a blast yield of two hundred kilotons (about ten times more powerful than the one used on Nagasaki, Japan).

[phyllis]

Antti Jokinen was offered a chance to direct.

[ruby]

The 3rd Alien movie to be given the R16 rating in New Zealand and the 2nd Predator film to be given the R16 rating also in that country. The other films from the Alien and Predator franchises to be given the R16 rating were Alien (1979), Predator 2 (1990) and Alien Resurrection (1997). Later films Predators (2010) and Alien: Covenant (2016) were also given the R16 rating.

[victoria]

In one of the movie's behind-the-scenes featurettes, director of photography Daniel Pearl stated that he wanted to visually differentiate this movie from its predecessor Alien vs. Predator (2004), which he criticized for its use of fixed cameras, wide shots and excessively bright lighting, because in his opinion, this revealed way too much of the creatures. Reasoning that monster horror works better in dark environments with documentary-style photography, Pearl employed hand-held cameras and dimly illuminated sets to get the desired effect. Ironically, the film would later be criticized mostly for its overuse of 'shaky cam' and excessively murky lighting, with people complaining that they couldn't see much of the action.

[sophie]

The film takes place 218 years before Alien (1979).

[janice]

Directors Colin Strause and Greg Strause already had a productive relationship with 20th Century Fox because their special effects company Hydraulx had done work on Fox movies such as The X Files (1998), Volcano (1997) and The Day After Tomorrow (2004). They had once even pitched an idea for an Alien vs Predator film to Fox, but without success. However, when a script for a second AvP movie was written, Fox approached the Strauss brothers because their background in visual effects would make them suitable to make an ambitious movie on a relatively modest budget.

[jessica]

Not screened for critics.

[bryan]

The woman whom Colonel Stevens presents the Predator's plasma blaster to is Miss Yutani. Miss Yutani is obviously the founder of the Yutani Corporation which was later reorganized as the Weyland-Yutani Corporation when the two corporations were merged. By taking possession of the Predator's advanced weapon, this means the Weyland-Yutani Corporation knew about the Xenomorphs and the Predators long before Ellen Ripley's first encounter with a Xenomorph in Alien (1979). Moreover, when Ms. Yutani says that the world isn't ready for this technology, Colonel Stevens rhetorically asks "but this [technology] isn't for our world, is it, Ms. Yutani?", hinting at the space mining and terraforming of other planets that the Weyland-Yutani Corporation is known for in the Alien movies.

[camila]

In the original script, the Predalien was to have died just before the crash of the Predator ship when a Predator kills it with his cannon, which occurred on page three or four of the script. A normal Alien would then kill the remaining Predators, and escape the wrecked ship with several facehuggers. It was re-written to incorporate the Predalien into the movie and make it the main antagonist, as the studio was very impressed by the concept.

[bernice]

Just like the previous film, the Aliens and the Predator are never referred to by these names by any of the characters in the film. Aliens are referred to as "monsters", "things" and "motherf#ckers", whereas the Predator isn't verbally referred to at all.

[jeffrey]

This film marks the first time in a Predator film where the Predator kills a female, when the Predator "Wolf" bisects Jessie with an acid drenched shuriken in the hospital sequence. Although it was an accident, as the shuriken struck two aliens before it pinned her to the wall and sliced her at the waist.

[victoria]

After the controversial decision to release Alien vs. Predator (2004) with a PG-13 rating, it was decided at an early stage that this movie would be R-rated, as "it is what the fans want from the series."

[marc]

Following the directors' specific instructions, Amalgamated Dynamics, Inc. (ADI) once again redesigned the Predator. As opposed to the muscular, comic-inspired Predators of the first film, Alien vs. Predator, Wolf returned to a slimmer configuration -- more akin to the original Stan Winston design. "We were adamant about creating a new, unique Predator," the Strause brothers said. "With a physique and features that reflected the original films -- and the Wolf achieved that in spades." The directors found the Predators from the previous film too disproportioned, and tried to use Whyte as a performer as much as possible; with only one main Predator, its proportions were based strictly on the performer's. The Predator's head features, however, a new configuration: a flatter face, proportionally bigger mouth and mandibles, as well as two single upper canines. "We wanted to re-proportion the face," said Tom Woodruff, Jr. in AVPR: Inside the Monster Shop, "giving the brov a more cunning, sweptback angle, like a predatory cat." To add a visual clue of the Predator's past fights with Aliens, the left side of its face is plagued by a considerable acid burn, which has almost completely consumed the creature's upper left mandible, and blinded its left eye (which was re-colored in post-production). This aspect was inspired by "Broken Tusk", the Predator character from the original Aliens vs. Predator comic book series. Colin Strause explained the connection: "One of the cool things was -- we wanted, y'know -- to give a little throwback to the comic book fans, so that's why we kind of did the Broken-Tusk type of idea, with the melted off mandible."

[frances]

Apart from the classic "Get to the chopper!" quote from Predator (1987), Dallas (Steven Pasquale) was also supposed to use the line "If it bleeds we can kill it" while he and the sheriff see the wounded Predator when they are inspecting the swimming pool. However, when the scene was re-written, the line was dropped.

[camila]

It is unknown if Bull intentionally fired his Plasmacaster into the Scout Ship's wall or if it was an accident. It is possible Bull tried to crash the ship, killing the Predalien in the process, to prevent it from getting to the destination they were headed.

[steve]

The film is a direct continuation of the first AVP film. Both films take place in 2004.

[sara]

During the cemetery sequence in the Unrated Version, a man with a gun stands in front of a tombstone with the name "Hawkins" on it. Hawkins was one of the soldiers in Predator (1987), played by Shane Black. Black is also a screenwriter (Lethal Weapon (1987)) and director (Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005) and Iron Man 3 (2013)), and would write and direct The Predator (2018) eleven years later.