Alien vs. Predator
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Film · TMDB
5.9When scientists discover something near Antarctica that appears to be a buried Pyramid, they send a research team out to investigate. Little do they know that they are about to step into a hunting ground where Aliens are grown as sport for the Predator race.
Released: 2004-08-12101 minDir: Paul W. S. AndersonAdventure, Science Fiction, Action, Horror
Cast
- Sanaa Lathan as Alexa Woods
- Lance Henriksen as Charles Bishop Weyland
- Ian Whyte as Scar
- Raoul Bova as Sebastian de Rosa
- Ewen Bremner as Graeme Miller
- Colin Salmon as Maxwell Stafford
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Ratings · OMDb
IMDb
5.7/10
231,347 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
21%
Metacritic
29/100
- Rated
- PG-13
- Awards
- 2 wins & 4 nominations total
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Paul W. S. Anderson
- Screenplay by
- Paul W. S. Anderson
- Story by
- Paul W. S. Anderson Dan O'Bannon Ronald Shusett
- Based on
- Alien characters , by Dan O'Bannon Ronald Shusett Predator characters , by Jim Thomas John Thomas
- Produced by
- John Davis Gordon Carroll David Giler Walter Hill
- Starring
- Sanaa Lathan Raoul Bova Lance Henriksen Ewen Bremner
- Cinematography
- David Johnson
- Edited by
- Alexander Berner
- Music by
- Harald Kloser
- Production companies
- Davis Entertainment Brandywine Productions Impact Pictures Stillking Films
- Distributed by
- 20th Century Fox
- Release dates
- 12 August 2004 ( 2004-08-12 ) (International) 13 August 2004 ( 2004-08-13 ) (United States)
Key dates
- Published
- 25 January 2005
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Country of origin
- Canada
- Original language
- English language
- Series
- Alien vs. Predator
- Followed by
- Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem
- Based on
- Predator
- Director
- Paul W. S. Anderson
- Screenwriter
- Paul W. S. Anderson
- Composer
- Harald Kloser
- Production company
Article
Alien vs. Predator (stylized on-screen as AVP: Alien vs. Predator) is a 2004 American science fiction action horror film and the first in the Alien vs. Predator franchise. It is written and directed by Paul W. S. Anderson, and stars Sanaa Lathan, Raoul Bova, Lance Henriksen, Ewen Bremner, Colin Salmon, and Tommy Flanagan. In the film, scientists are caught in the crossfire of an ancient battle between Aliens and Predators as they attempt to escape a bygone Antarctic pyramid.
It adapts a crossover bringing together the creatures of the Alien and Predator series, a concept which originated in a 1989 comic book written by Randy Stradley and Chris Warner. Anderson wrote the story, with the creators of the Alien franchise, Dan O'Bannon and Ronald Shusett receiving additional story credit due to the incorporation of elements from the Alien series, and Anderson and Shane Salerno adapted the story into a screenplay. Their writing was influenced by Aztec mythology, the comic book series, and the writings of Erich von Däniken.