When news broke that there was a sequel to ALIEN VS PREDATOR in the works, the horror community let out a collective groan. When it was said this film would be aiming for an R rating, there was a little hope. And when the red band trailer hit the net, ALIENS VS PREDATOR: REQUIEM became one of the must see horror films of 2007. You know it’s true. Tell me you didn’t have a guilty pleasure watching the red band trailer? Everytime a head exploded I let out a little yelp of joy.
So the news over at MTV is pretty damn juicy. They have a shitload of new tidbits, literally, a shitload. They recently caught up with the Brothers Strause to talk about the flick and the boys let out some great stuff. Just a couple bits that caught my eye.
“Basically you’re following this one Predator — the star of this movie,” Greg said of the hunter in pursuit. Added Colin, “We call him the Wolf internally because basically he’s Harvey Keitel from ‘Pulp Fiction.’ He’s the cleaner. He shows up and he’s not there for the trophies. … If anybody gets in his way, he’ll just cut ’em in half. At [an early] point in the movie, [the Wolf] takes a gun off of a dead Predator, and so he has double shoulder cannons,” Colin explained.
“One of the cool things is we got Fox to go back and digitally remaster the original recordings of the Aliens from ‘Aliens,’ ” beamed Greg. “All of [James] Cameron’s sound elements have been digitally remastered — the shrieks, the computer sounds — because we wanna tie it into ‘Aliens.’ … The Alien design is also a throwback to Cameron’s version. It’s different, but it’s inspired by the warrior Alien.”
Now tell me that doesn’t bring a smile to your face! Those are just a couple of the updates the Strause Brothers dropped for us. And they even hinted at a sequel!
“I’d like to do another one but I’d like to do it in space. The next one either has to be more of the bridge after this and before ‘Alien,’ or you could do something after ‘Aliens,’ ” Greg said, getting back to work. “We have a pretty finite ending to this, but we have a cliffhanger per se; it’s a setup.”
Oh man, I am set! This has definately became a must-see in my eyes, what a Christmas present huh? To check out the rest of the interview with all the smoking extras, click here. Another picture has been released from MTV as well (found above), and for a little more info on the interview, you can head over to the MTV Movies Blog.
ALIENS VS PREDATOR: REQUIEM is setting it’s targets on Christmas Day (Dec 25 in case you didn’t know), so take your loved ones!
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