1. AVP Never Happened (Ever)
Its one thing for a film to be ignored by a franchise, but few get the honour of being shafted by two. Making Marvel turning a post credit sting into a billion dollar franchise look positively obvious, AVP is built on a background easter egg in Predator 2. The Xenomorph skull in the ugly mothers lair sparked a plethora of comics in the nineties (reaching their preposterous zenith with Superman & Batman Versus Aliens & Predator), but it was a concept that was never going to really work in a film. The base films were so different, that the tone was set to be betrayed, and there was no way the talentless Paul W.S. Anderson could strike the balance between story and creature fighting (in the end he ignored both). First up to forget this was Predators, the sorely overlooked, Robert Rodriguez-produced sci-fi that perfectly captured the tone of the original, if not the audience. Part way through, Alice Braga retells the plot of the Schwarzenegger vehicle, stating it as the only human encounter (so technically also getting rid of Predator 2 as well). In the space of a year, Predator went from being a
quadrilogy (a sickening word) to a
trilogy. Prometheus only furthered AVPs status as the runt. Showing both the legacy and creation of the Xenomorph, one resolute thing we took from it was that its modern humanitys first meeting with aliens. Although Prometheus didn't really seem willing to link into Alien either, so dont take that one too seriously. Know of any more movies the franchise rejected? Do you still love some of these shunted films? Go to the comments and let us know.