![]() This time, the survivors team up with a rival Predator to try to escape back to Earth, only for the plan to be foiled by the remaining bigger Predator. ![]() What we do know is that, like always, the Predators (there are three of them) kill a bunch of the humans. ( The Predator director Shane Black has stated that his movie takes place before Predators though, so your call.)Įven if it's not exactly 2010, it can't be too far into the future as the group's weapons aren't that advanced, so it's probably still in the 21st century. We don't know when exactly it's set, and common consensus among fans over the years is that it's probably set in the year it was released. The only Predator movie so far to not take place on Earth, Predators sees a group of soldiers, murderers and other criminals forced together on a planet that acts as a sort of playground for two groups of Predators. 2004 (again) – Alien Vs Predator: Requiem She's defeated, but not before the final Predator is killed after getting impaled by the Alien Queen's tail.Ī Predator ship that has been orbiting Earth comes down to retrieve the body, unaware that a Predalien hybrid is brewing inside. Unfortunately for them, they awaken an Alien Queen and are soon battling with aliens and three Predators who have come to hunt the newly-born Xenomorphs.Īll but one of the Predators and the humans die, so the two survivors team up to battle the Alien Queen. The first movie takes place in 2004 as a group of experts led by Charles Bishop Weyland (Lance Henriksen) investigate a heat signal on Bouvetøya, an island off the coast of Antarctica. However, until such a thing happens in the Predator timeline, we're including them here for now, whether you like it or not. There's a lot of debate over whether the Alien Vs Predator movies are canon in the Alien timeline as Ridley Scott seemed to ignore them when it came to Alien: Covenant. ![]() Oh, and we know there's a whole host of comics, books and video games featuring the Predator in action and crossing over with everything from Superman to Tarzan, but for the sake of simplicity, we're sticking to the established movie timeline. Set in 1719, the prequel – which you can stream on Disney+ in the UK and on Hulu in the US – saw a fledgeling Comanche hunter ( Amber Midthunder's) fight for survival against both the harsh wilderness and a fully-armed Predator.īut where exactly does it fit in with the rest of the series? Well, we're here to help.įortunately, the series has so far avoided the complex timelines of other major franchises (we're looking at you, X-Men), but given that it's spanned 35 years and included two notorious crossover movies, it's still worth remembering what happened when. While the Predator franchise largely takes place in the here and now – only, in some sort of worrying alternate universe where you've got a realistic chance of being taken out by an extraterrestrial trophy hunter – last year's Prey dramatically turned back the clock. ![]()
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