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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Desdichado" data-source="post: 1671022" data-attributes="member: 2205">A script is not a kind of novel.  And why would I care about original screenplays anyway?  Y'know, the ones the creators scrapped?  Surely, you're not trying to tell me you believe that to be canonical?  What else has to be canonical by your account?  That predators fought Batman?  That they fought robot fighter Magnus in a completely alternate future from the one in the AVP novels and comic books?  Did they also have a three way catfight between aliens, predators and terminators just because a comic book miniseries did that?  Dark Horse and Spectra bought a license to use the Predator and Aliens characters and properties for novels and comics, and that's exactly what they did, but that hardly means that the creators of the movies are bound to what they did.  Look at the Star Wars novels; with each new movie Lucas makes, he invalidates the premise of dozens of books.  That's just the way licensing works.You seem to be too emotionally invested in this issue to pay attention to what I'm saying, so you make hyperbolic straw man mischaracterizations of what I'm saying.  You're also not understanding the way the creative world works, I don't think.  You make several statements that are just plain wrong, or naive.  You think the creators of the movies were involved in the novels and comic books, and I think that's a big load of BS.  I know for a fact that Ridley Scott, who created Alien wasn't even involved in Aliens, Alien3 or Alien Resurrection much less a bunch of licensed novels or comic books.  What happened is Dark Horse and Spectra bought the licenses, and then went and did their own thing, which the movie creators have no reason whatsoever to follow.And you seem to be pretty bitter for some reason against the creators of the movie because they didn't follow the vision of a bunch of hack authors (emphasis on hack) of some licensed novels and comic books.  You also seem to think the original alien and predator creators were involved in those books and novels which is not true.  Ironically enough, John and Jim Thomas, the original creators of the Predator movie screenplay, are credited in the AVP movie (although not in the novels).</blockquote>

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