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It's funny they suggest such a project would have more weight behind it if Ridley Scott (now in his mid-80s) stepped up to do it. As much credit as he deserves for the original which spawned the rest, his return with Prometheus & Covenant (despite the quantum leap in visual fx since the 70s) were uneven & poorly executed. It was all great right up until they took the head aboard & in two lines went from a careful scientific study of their only specimen of superior alien life to running a current thru its brain to trick into "thinking it's still alive", thus blowing it up. From then on it seemed like Scott turned the writing over to an intern, & went off to fume about the MCU.
With that off my chest, they do have an alien queen with vast survival skills just sitting down on the bottom of the frozen (& increasingly warming) ocean with nothing more than a barely jerry-rigged chain holding her to a submerged tank, so if someone (ahem, Paul W.S. Anderson) really wants to make another AvP sequel, the answer is global warming.
I always figured the eggs in Alien 3 were laid on the dropship by the queen as it escaped the terraforming plant's nuclear destruction, like a general failsafe to perpetuate the species.
The part where Sebastian claims humans were tricked down there by the heat bloom is pretty silly considering this would've been the very first time in their long history of engaging in this 100 yr ritual that humankind had the ability to detect it.
Also strange were the fossilized sacrificial humans. Sure, long ago when they were still worshipping the predators as deities, you would've found the willing subjects still laying there without signs of resistance, but since the last time it happened was in 1904 to extremely frightened & confused whalers, they would've been bound, & not wearing the ancient jewelry.
Or she got into that enclosed snowcat with lights on which she was walking towards as the predators' craft took off, & headed back to the waiting ship.
As much as I enjoy the stories told by Star Trek, Star Wars, & numerous other sci-fi favorites, having cut my teeth on the works of Clarke & Asimov set forth in a future devoid of artificial gravity, inertial dampeners, shields & faster than light speeds, finding such a well-produced sci-fi drama in a realistically extrapolated future still bound by limits of acceleration, vacuum, low-g environments & socio-political strife instantly clinched my interest, & I've been hooked since. Takes a minute to get up to speed with the dynamics between the different power centers, but that's mostly because it's been so well considered, many of the moves have to be inferred unlike with the heavy & often simplistic exposition found elsewhere. Toss in some protomolecule, & it absolutely purrs. It's like Space Odyssey Kubrick meets House of Cards meets The Wire.