It’s fair to say that writer -director Paul W S Anderson takes a kicking whenever he releases a new film and yet several are reappraised far more positively years after their release. Event Horizon is a case in point as is ‘Alien v Predator’ the first film to have done the monster mash up and did decent business that prompted another sequel that was truly abysmal and killed any further hybrid films dead. But recently Anderson was asked about his film and the missing Alien v Predator scenes where he mentioned a couple of set pieces from the script that ended up not being shot. Here’s what he said about them….
‘There were pieces in my original screenplay that we didn’t shoot for budgetary reasons. They were basically going back in time to see the Predator on Earth a little bit more. Because in the final movie, you only see two time periods — the Aztec period and present-day. I wanted to have some midway marker points, the first of which would be in the snow, in the Battle of the Bulge [during WWII]. You were going to have some American GIs coming into contact with a Predator, which would have been very cool. The other one was basically going to be in the same time period as Prey, a sequence that had Native Americans and Predators. I don’t know if that was something that influenced the development of Prey, but that was definitely a two-page sequence in the original screenplay that we took out … They would have been flashbacks and would have explained that there was a growing knowledge in the American military-industrial complex that Predators existed. When Weyland [launches the expedition], he’s going in with these guys who have guns. He knows that they’re not just on a scientific expedition’.
…..and those were the missing Alien v Predator scenes!
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source: Forbes
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