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AVPR: Aliens vs Predator - Requiem (2007) More at IMDbPro »

• The Predator was nicknamed "Wolf" by the filmmakers, after the character Winston Wolfe in Pulp Fiction (1994). His role in the film, like Wolfe's, is described as that of a "cleaner" - one who covers up assassinations, accidents, and other messy situations.
  
  
• The Yutani character (of the "Weyland-Yutani" Company from the "Alien" films) was originally going to appear in the first AVP movie, but was written out.
  
  
• This is the first movie in both the Predator and the AVP-based movies that actually feature scenes of the Predators' home planet.
  
  

• It was at one time hoped to include scenes of the alien home world, and it was even storyboarded to be included in the end of the movie, but ultimately the idea was dropped.
  
  
• Not screened for critics.
  
  
• The Predalien was nicknamed "Chet" on set and in the script.
  
  
• For the first time, the Predator is never seen by the humans without it's mask.
  
  
• Sound effects from previous films in both franchises were used in this film.
  
  
• Several sounds are intentionally recycled from previous ‘Alien’ and ‘Predator’ movies as tribute to those films. Aside from the actual predator and alien noises, other recycled sounds include the beeping of the motion tracker from Aliens (1986) used in this movie as the sound made on the tracking screen showing the bomber heading towards its target.
  
  
• According to the DVD commentary, Robert Joy's character Col. Stevens was originally written as Garber from Predator 2 (1990), who was the highest ranking survivor from Peter Keyes team hunting the predators. When the actor who played Garber (Adam Baldwin) couldn't be scheduled, the character was changed to Col Stevens.
  
  
• It was decided at an early stage that this movie would be R-rated as "it is what the fans want from the series".
  
  
• Bill Paxton was approached to play the diner chef so he could appear in the second ‘Predator’, ‘Alien’ and ‘AvP’ film in each series. However, scheduling conflicts prevented him from making an appearance.
  
  
• This is the first time in the franchise that a Chestburster emerges from a child.
  
  

• SPOILER: The bomb used to blow up the town at the end of the movie is shown to have a blast yield of 200 kilotons (about 10 times more powerful than the one used on Nagasaki).
  
  
• SPOILER: According to the DVD commentary, effects artists Alec Gillis and Tom Woodruff Jr. mention that they originally had an effects sequence that would've shown us the Predator actually skinning the body of Deputy Ray Adams. But the idea was dropped when Fox Studios that is was deemed "too horrific".
  
  

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