UPDATE!: More ALIEN VS. PREDATOR news!

By: Patrick Sauriol
Date: Monday, June 16, 2003
Source: FilmJerk

The FilmJerk website has followed up on our ALIEN VS. PREDATOR article posted earlier today and confirmed that the action does take place in Antartica and that the film's main character is named Lex. Furthermore, FilmJerk has posted detailed character descriptions of the seven main characters in Paul W.S. Anderson's screenplay, as well as revealing that the film may be filming as early as October this year.

FilmJerk describes the main character of Alexia "Lex" Homer as follows: "In her late 20s, Lex is stunning, buff, courageous, and intelligent, as well as the heroine of this film. She is an environmental researcher hired by Weyland Industries to keep everyone on the expedition 'alive,' as the head of the company puts it. A tough cookie, with a good sense of humor, she has a history of guts and glory having been the youngest to climb Mount Everest without oxygen tanks. Lex is initially second in command to Max Stafford, but when all hell breaks loose, she must assume full leadership of the remaining crew. She is not only a survivor, but a true warrior as well."

To read the remaining character profiles, you'll need to check out FilmJerk's article -- but it should be noted that one of the remaining characters described, that of a "driven billionaire industrialist" named Charles Weyland, shares one of the same names as the devious company that owned the Nostromo and colony in ALIEN and ALIENS: Weyland-Yutani. Could Charles Weyland be one of the founders of Weyland-Yutani, and as such did he have knowledge of the Aliens as far back as present day??


Makes for some interesting speculation, doesn't it?


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