Aliens In A Puzzle Box Pyramid

a scene from Cubea. Magazines published statements that Vincenzo Natali was being offered Alien 5. However Vincenzo Natali was famous for directing a movie called Cube which is about a group of people who are trapped inside a giant deadly puzzle box with chambers that move around almost like a Rubik's cube. If we go along with the idea that the director brings something from their own creative past into the movie story to leave their mark, the...

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Borrowed from the Alien saga

leading fromAlien Vs Predator 1. Title Sequence 2. Silhouette of the Alien Queen 3. Nodding duck  4. Reflections in the helmets 5. Bishop returns again 6. The Pyra...

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Title Sequence

leading from AVP: Borrowed from the Alien sagaThis part of the logo and title sequence for the AVP film is based on Alien's.  This logo and this title that we did as a kind of homage to Alien and Predator, the AVP was patent after Ridley Scott's designs for the way he spelt out Alien in the first movie. (DVD commentary)...

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Silhouette of the Alien Queen

leading from: Borrowed from the Alien sagaThe satellite that resembles the Alien Queen's headAn orbiting satellite around the planet Earth that discovers the frozen over island by the Antarctic, from one side resembles the silhouette of the alien queen's head. John Bruno talked about how it was meant to make you think it was the alien queen from Aliens floating out in spacei) Paul Anderson, Lance Henriksen and Paul Anderson discuss the alien...

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Nodding Duck

leading from: AVP: Borrowed from the Alien saga Paul Anderson: And also that is the nodding duck from Alien just on the right hand side of the screenSanaa Lathan: The what? Ohhh!Paul Anderson: The little nodding duck thing that was on the Nostromo in the very first Alien (DVD commentary)nodding ducks in Aliennodding duck in ...

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Reflections in the helmets

leading from: AVP: Borrowed from the Alien sagaPaul Anderson: This again is like.... we wanted to do a visual reference to Alien where the... er... Nostromo comes to life and you see the lettering, the computer lettering reflected in the astronauts helmets.Lance Henriksen: Yuh that's greatPaul Anderson: We thought we'd do kind of the same with the predator helmetsLance Henriksen: Oh, it's terrific man. (DVD commentary)lettering reflecting in the...

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Bishop returns again

leading from AVP: Borrowed from the Alien saga a) Charles "Bishop" Weyland the billionairePaul Anderson had the idea of playing a character named Charles "Bishop" Weyland, who like Bill Gates is a billionaire, and is the founder of Weyland Industries that somewhere in the years ahead would become part of Weyland-Yutani, the conglomerate featured in the Alien series that owns the Nostromo and the terraforming station on LV 426. Rather than leave...

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The Pyramid

leading from AVP: Borrowed from the Alien sagaa) A main plot element in the film is the discovery of an ancient pyramid that contains anAlien birthing temple and Paul Anderson borrowed this idea as something unused from Dan O'Bannon's original Alien script.AVP' s Hologram of the underground pyramidThe pyramid in O'Bannon's script"Originally, when they were going back from the derelict ship to the Nostromo, they were going to find this pyramid and...

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