Alien vs. Predator (film)

Alien vs. Predator also known as AVP or AVP Alien vs. Predator is a 2004 American science fiction horror action film directed by Paul W. S. Anderson and starring Sanaa Lathan, Lance Henriksen and Raoul Bova. It is the first installment of the Alien vs. Predator franchise, adapting a crossover bringing together the eponymous creatures of the Alien and Predator series, a concept which originated in a 1989 comic book. Anderson, Dan OBannon, and Ronald Shusett wrote the story and Anderson and Shane Salerno adapted the story into a screenplay. Their writing was influenced by Aztec mythology, the comic book series, and the writings of Erich von Dniken.

In 2004, a satellite detects a mysterious heat bloom beneath Bouvetya, an island about one thousand miles off the coast of Antarctica. Wealthy industrialist Charles Bishop Weyland Lance Henriksen discovers through thermal imaging that there is a pyramid buried 2000 feet beneath the ice. He attempts to claim it for his multinational communications company, Weyland Industries, and assembles a team of experts to go investigate. The team includes archaeologists, linguistic experts, drillers, mercenaries, and a guide named Alexa Woods Sanaa Lathan.As a Predator ship reaches Earths orbit, it blasts a shaft through the ice towards the source of the heat bloom. When the team arrives at the abandoned whaling station above the heat source, they find the shaft and descend beneath the ice. They locate the mysterious pyramid and begin to explore it, finding evidence of a prehistoric civilization and what appears to be a sacrificial chamber filled with human skeletons with ruptured rib cages. ........

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