Alien: Romulus filmmaker Fede Alvarez is totally open to doing a revamped Alien vs. Predator movie, but he’ll need a little help.
“Maybe it’s something I have to co-direct with my buddy Dan,” Alvarez said. That friend being Dan Tratchenberg who helmed the widely watched Predator 2022 prequel Prey for Hulu and is already working on another standalone pic in the franchise.
“Maybe we should do like Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez did with Dusk Till Dawn. I’ll direct a half, and he’ll direct another half.”
20th Century Fox released two Alien Vs. Predator movies; one in 2004 ($177.4M WW) and the second, Aliens vs. Predators: Requiem, in 2007 ($130.2M WW box office). The first hybrid between the two sci-fi monsters per industry sources was an extremely profitable title for the studio, a fact not well known.
But before embarking on Alien vs. Predator, Alvarez told us at the premiere earlier this week, “It depends on how well this (Romulus) does, if people want to see that.”
Well, at a $40M opening, Alvarez’s latest Alien movie is going to do exteremly well, notching the second biggest opening in the franchise ever behind Ridley Scott’s 2012 Prometheus ($51M).
Alien: Romulus is also going to rank as Alvarez’s top domestic opening of his career at the box office, in addition to the best stateside debut ever for star Cailee Spaeny.
Dusk Till Dawn came out in 1996 and was co-written by Rodriguez and Tarantino. The movie starred George Clooney, Salma Hayek, Harvey Keitel, Juliette Lewis and Tarantino in a tale about two criminals and their hostages who unknowingly seek temporary refuge in a truck stop populated by vampires, with chaotic results. The pic grossed $25.8M.