Paul W.S. Anderson's ALIENS VS. PREDATOR to go instead of the Cameron / Ridley Scott Partnership... joy...

Hey folks, Harry here... Remember back a couple of months ago when James Cameron said he'd told Fox that he had plans for a new ALIEN movie - and all that talk of Cameron writing and Ridley Scott directing? Well, the super-brains at 20th Century Fox are instead forging ahead with the brilliant plan of letting Paul W. S. Anderson (obviously a far superior filmmaker) to make ALIENS VS PREDATOR.

According to this story at Filmforce, other splendid news is that Paul W. S. Anderson is not following any of the beloved storylines from Dark Horses' comic series or the wildly popular video game series. Oh no. Instead of far off world, strange never before seen environments... Nope, instead they'll set the film in Antartica. Apparently the film will feature no character from either series. More details can be found at Filmforce.

There was also this letter we got from the guys at FilmJerk:

Hi Harry and Drew--

Hope all is well. Thought you might be interested in a piece of news we have today: Following up on a scoop given to Cinescape today, FilmJerk.com has learned that "Alien vs. Predator" is locked to begin principal photography October in Prague.

We also have the lead character details, of which casting has already begun for filling these roles. Full story RIGHT HERE!!.

Really liked reading the set visit reports on "Hellboy," actually looking forward to that film.

Regards,

Chris Faile

FilmJerk.com

So let's see if I get this right. Instead of pursuing the James Cameron (TERMINATOR, ALIENS, ABYSS, TERMINATOR 2, TRUE LIES & TITANIC) and Ridley Scott (ALIEN, BLADE RUNNER, THELMA & LOUISE, GLADIATOR & BLACKHAWK DOWN) to pursue their developing rebirth of the Alien franchise -- because if you remember, the condition that Cameron had in doing it was that there be no ALIENS VS PREDATOR film first. Well instead of that project, we get Paul W.S. Anderson (MORTAL KOMBAT, EVENT HORIZON, SOLDIER & RESIDENT EVIL) to turn his creative super-genius and long history of wildly successful investment vs return bankability to not one, but two franchises. Oh and to add insult to injury - I just had a report from a source that claims that Paul W.S. Anderson's pitch is to make this PG-13 - That's sure to make it a mega-success.