Trivia: The way Thomas shines his torch on the eggs that have just popped up in the Sacrificial Chamber (illuminating the facehugger inside) echoes the scene in the original Alien where Kane does the same thing to the eggs found in the hold of the ship.
Trivia: When Weyland is in his office near the beginning of the movie, he's playing with his pen. He starts tapping it on his desk between his fingers, alternating which two fingers he taps between. This is what Bishop does in Aliens (albeit with a knife) with his hand on top of Hudson's; maybe it was programmed into Bishop's intelligence.
Trivia: Paul W. S. Anderson wrote the parts of Charles Bishop Weyland and Maxwell Stafford specifically for Lance Henriksen and Colin Salmon, respectively.
Trivia: With this film, Lance Henriksen has now been killed or otherwise assaulted by the title creature of three major sci-fi franchises; a Predator, an Alien and a Terminator. The only other current member of this fraternity of the unfortunate is Bill Paxton.
Trivia: There is a dipping bird in the background of the receiving station in Nebraska just like the one in the first Alien movie. Also, the morse code in the background says, "whoever wins. we lose."
Trivia: Colin Salmon starts to be cut into sections by the predator's net. Likely a nod to Resident Evil where his character meets a similar fate (lasers instead of a net) - both movies were directed by Paul W. S. Anderson.
Trivia: One of the taglines for this film is "Whoever wins...we lose." This is amusing as all the aliens and the predators in the temple are killed, leaving only one human survivor. I guess we won after all.
Trivia: Just before Miller enters the whaling station on his own, he cracks open a flare. The camera then does a shot behind the door before Miller comes in, but the light cast through the cracks in the door are a carbon copy of "Aliens", when the salvage ship scans Ripley's escape pod with the same effect.
Trivia: During production, the tagline "Their war. Our world." was suggested. It was ultimately passed on for "Whoever wins... we lose." However, the original tagline was subsequently recycled and used for the 2007 film "Transformers."
Trivia: The Alien Queen in Aliens was not able to be built how originally intended due to the limitations at the time. However, with this film, Anderson was fully able to have created the full Alien Queen that James Cameron had originally envisioned—15 feet tall with an 8-foot head and 47 points of articulation. It was more sophisticated than the T-Rex from Jurassic Park and took 8 people controlling it.
Trivia: The helicopter approaches an ice breaker ship called the Piper Maru. This is named after the X-Files episode of the same name, which also had an ice breaker ship called the Piper Maru, which in that show was named after Gillian Anderson's daughter. Coincidentally, Lance Henriksen, who is a main character in this movie, also appeared in X-Files and got his own spin-off show as well, Millennium. (00:06:42)
Trivia: The camera lens and style at the start of the film is a clear reference to Hal 9000 from the film 2001: A Space Odyssey in how it's shaped and looks, as well as the framing and blocking with the film camera. (00:01:33)
Trivia: The image/symbol of the Xenomorph on the floor of the sacrificial chamber is the same or similar to the symbol used in the marketing of Alien 3 and seen on the movie's cover and posters. This same symbol is also on the necklaces of the people being sacrificed, seen both in the flashbacks of them lying down, and sometimes visible on the decayed corpses in the modern time of the movie. (00:35:37)
Trivia: At one point, based on the comics, a spec script was written by Peter Briggs and was going to be directed by Guillermo del Toro. However, they both opted out of the film to go write and direct Hellboy. That original script was shelved, but not lost as it was repurposed and used to make the Alien vs Predator arcade game instead, with a different script then written for this film.
Trivia: The Predators in this movie were played by Irish basketball players.
Suggested correction: The predators were played by actor Ian Whyte.
Ian Whyte is a former English Professional Basketball Player.
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