When Paul WS Anderson's Alien Vs Predator finally hit in 2004 fans had been waiting the better part of two decades for the two iconic, cinematic extraterrestrials to duke it out on the big screen. 1990 was the year that Predator 2 came out, and a brief glimpse at a xenomorph in the hunter's trophy room drove eagle-eyed audiences wild. Since then there have been countless Alien Vs Predator comics, just as many novels, and a embarrassment of video games of varying quality (you can't beat the original one for the Atari Jaguar, just as you probably can't source an actual Atari Jaguar). Anderson's movie wound up being a disappointment, though, because he is the man who has directed 70% of those terrible Resident Evil films and The Three Musketeers starring Ray Stevenson. Which is a double shame when you consider a draft script from the early nineties was based on the 1989 comic book, from Hellboy screenwriter Peter Briggs, and it wouldn't have taken place on Earth.
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