Alien and Predator: A TVCU Quickie
What's a quickie? See this blog. Inspired by Matt Hickman's posting of Ross Pearsall's latest Lost Issue in the TVCU forum, today I'm going to do a quick covering of Alien and Predator. You can view the Lost Issues here. The TVCU discussion group is here. A Complete (but not updated) Alien/Predator crossover chronology can be found here. Predator and Alien of course started off as completely unrelated science fiction/horror films. They didn't even take place in the same time period. Predator was a contemporary film, involving an alien on Earth. Alien, on the other hand, took place in a dark future, one where humans hadn't discovered warp drive nor had they much contact with any other alien species. One commonality was that they were both about very dangerous killing machines that stalked their prey, killing them off one at a time. The first linking of the two came in Predator 2, when the skull of a an Alien (ok, Xenomorph at they are technica...