An Alien VS Predator anime has been completed BUT is trapped in the Disney vaults

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I'm looking up random bullshit (as you do) and saw that a Predator VS Wolverine comic is happening. https://web.archive.org/web/2023060...the-marvel-universe-in-new-comic-book-series/

It might be good? I'd prefer a Punisher VS Predator comic but that might never happen now because of the increased criticism from Leftists over the Punisher character. But then I notice this article:


The Alien and Predator franchises, long connected in the world of comic books, have remained separate entities in the many years since Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem crash landed in theaters back in 2007, with Disney now holding the rights to both franchises. Predator returned last year in Prey, while two brand new Alien projects are in the works – a movie and a TV series.

But will we ever see the Alien and Predator franchises crossover again in the future? Well, it turns out there’s an existing crossover project between the two that we HAVEN’T ever seen.

The website AvP Galaxy informs us this week that the beans were spilled by Josh Izzo during a recent episode of the Perfect Organism podcast. Izzo is the former Director of Licensing at 20th Century Fox, and he revealed during the podcast interview that a finished Alien vs. Predator animated series has been locked up in Disney’s vault since they took over Fox.

Izzo explains, “… there is sitting at Disney now, at 20th [Studios], 10 episodes of a fully completed Alien vs. Predator anime series that I produced. It’s done. It’s in the can. It’s mixed, it’s finished. It was produced and story cracked by Eric Calderon and Dave Baker. Two unbelievably crazy talented guys. Dave Bixler was head of Home Entertainment at the time – from a creative perspective – and he championed this for me.”

“At this time Covenant was still nascent and The Predator had not happened yet so the brands weren’t doing anything at the moment. It was still open season for our sci-fi brands,” Izzo continues. “So I went to Home Entertainment, [to] the woman who was in charge of marketing, her name was Rio Cyrus, [an] absolute genius, and [to head of] production Dave Bixler. I pitched them and I said ‘we own nearly 30 years of comic book content of Alien and Predator and AvP. No rights, no strings. Dark Horse did an amazing job but it’s all 20th Century Fox. It’s ours to do with as we please. Why don’t we adapt the original AvP comic book series with Machiko and Broken Tusk? Let’s just do that. Here’s your storyboard. It’s done, it’s finished.'”

From there, an unnamed director was brought on board the project, which morphed into a new storyline set in the “way deep future – post-AvP, post-Alien 4.” They got the green light and the plan was to debut the series on Alien Day in 2016, but the combination of Alien: Covenant and The Predator popping up, and Disney taking over Fox, spelled the end of the project.

Will it ever see the light of day? Your guess is as good as ours…
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The statement that confuses me is that Fox apparently owns the Dark Horse comic book rights. I was under the impression it was shared not unless there were some under the table deals where Fox owns them outright but you run into the issue of paying the writers involved with them. This was at least one of the issues with making the original AVP movie back in the 90's -another issue I heard of was that the producers of the two franchises didn't get along and Fox wasn't super eager since Predator 2 and Alien 3 both underperformed.

But the Disney merger might have thrown the rights issue right back into the blender because knowing how short-sighted Disney is they could have just let the rights lapse with Dark Horse Comics and now they have leverage and can demand whatever they want to get this anime release. There's also the possibility that this anime sucks the big one of course.
 
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Hi Bruno! Long time fan. I really loved Robowar.

Anyway with regards to Alien and Predator, what if there was another option that you missed? And that option is: Alien and Predator were both one-off or maybe two-off movies and it never should have gone beyond that.
 
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Too Many Catgirls said:
Hi Bruno! Long time fan. I really loved Robowar.

Anyway with regards to Alien and Predator, what if there was another option that you missed? And that option is: Alien and Predator were both one-off or maybe two-off movies and it never should have gone beyond that.
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Oh, I disagree. The concept can work and for those who doubt it they should actually read the comic book.


There's a few things about the comic I don't like such as the female main character being a little too inexplicably powerful and teaming up with the Predator but otherwise I'd give it an 8/10. There's other good AVP comics out there but admittedly they are few and far between. I liked AVP: Eternal, AVP: Duel, and individual stories that were in Dark Horse Presents or AVP: Annual.
 
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I can't reply to Bruno's comment for some reason, but Disney owns the comics outright, and if the writers get royalties like Alan Dean Foster for his Star Wars books, they've got something worked out. Marvel has reprinted all the Dark Horse Aliens comics and some of the Predator comics. No Aliens vs. Predator comics yet, but I'm sure they're on the way.
 
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Flaming Carrot said:
I can't reply to Bruno's comment for some reason, but Disney owns the comics outright, and if the writers get royalties like Alan Dean Foster for his Star Wars books, they've got something worked out. Marvel has reprinted all the Dark Horse Aliens comics and some of the Predator comics. No Aliens vs. Predator comics yet, but I'm sure they're on the way.
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There's a quote issue for posts over a certain length. Just @ their username instead if you want them to see it.

Could be pretty interesting. It would lend itself alright to an anime, odd they would make something and never use it unless it was too conflicting with the Disney brand (see Black Cauldron).

Or it might be that they have their own plans for the canon of those franchises.
 
If it's just an anime version of the first comic run, I'd rather stick with the comics.
 
The only good AvP movie was the first one. It wasn't the best but it was ok. I'm not overselling it like some kind of hipster faggot. AvP2 was shit. Most of the Predator movies made after the first movie in 1987 have been garbage as well. They make Predator 2 look good and that wasn't a very good movie. I would rather watch that though than some of the shit they have made recently. That one with the feather head Indian girl was real shitty. I never watched it but most people said it was shit.

Just like Highlander there is only one good Predator movie. It's a shame because they could make a good movie. But they can't. The Hollywood Kikes are played out.
 
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The only good AvP movie was the first one. It wasn't the best but it was ok. I'm not overselling it like some kind of hipster faggot. AvP2 was shit. Most of the Predator movies made after the first movie in 1987 have been garbage as well. They make Predator 2 look good and that wasn't a very good movie. I would rather watch that though than some of the shit they have made recently. That one with the feather head Indian girl was real shitty. I never watched it but most people said it was shit.

Just like Highlander there is only one good Predator movie. It's a shame because they could make a good movie. But they can't. The Hollywood Kikes are played out.
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I liked Predator 2 well enough. It's different enough to not be an exact repeat of the first film, the action scenes aren't crap, the budget doesn't seem to have dropped by 80% between films, we get a bit of crazy Gary Busey, and the film actually managed to expand the Predator lore (we see confirmation they hunt more than just humans, they won't kill kids armed with toy guns or pregnant women armed with real guns) without destroying the mystery, as so many unnecessary sequels do.

Plus without Predator 2, Bill Paxton would've never finished the trifecta of scifi monster deaths.
 
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I just want good xeno gore and action but even modern Commiewood can't deliver, so we're stuck in capeshit and indie-drama shit.
 
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