Ripley and Newt from Alien star in alternate endings for The Predator

Actress and stuntman Breanna Watkins has revealed some new details about not one, but two possible alternate endings for 2018's The Predator movie (which you can retrieve at this link), which would have seen both Ellen Ripley's character return to the scene. than that of Rebecca “Newt” Jorden, the little girl seen in Aliens Final Clash. Written and directed by Shane Black, the fourth installment of the series dedicated to the Hunter from the Stars, it featured a group of soldiers suffering from PTSD and a scientist working together to face the alien hunters in search of trophies on our planet, with a cast of actors that included Boyd Holbrook, Olivia Munn, Trevante Rhodes, Sterling K. Brown, Thomas Jane and Keegan-Michael Key.



Announced in June 2014, the film departed from much from the events narrated in the third chapter, Predators, bringing the action back to Earth. With Black directing, who had previously starred in the original 1987 Predator, the production had seen the abandonment of both 50 Cent and Benicio del Toro due to programming problems, and that of Arnold Schwarzenegger, another veteran of the franchise, to due to the minor nature of the role that would have been due to him.

Black has thus put the cast back on its feet, then going to British Columbia for filming in early 2017, but failing to do so due to multiple factors. The cast and crew then reunited in July 2018 while the entire plot was rewritten and fully filmed.

The film then hit theaters in September of the same year, garnering mixed but excellent reviews revenue at the box office, becoming the title that has grossed the most in the history of the series, with 160.5 million dollars earned, a result that is not striking compared to the 88 million dollars invested in total for its realization.

Finding himself having to stage a different ending than expected, Black and the rest of the production immediately thought of bringing back some characters from a different narrative universe, but in any case always crossed with that of Predator, aka Ripley and Newt from the Alien franchise. Two different alternative endings were thus shot, where the spacecraft of the Yaujta, the Predators to understand us, had on board the stasis pods containing Ripley and Newt, then discarded in the final phase in favor of the final that we were able to finally see. br>


Watkins has provided some more details on her interpretation of both characters, including hints to the narrative arcs that could carry the characters back into future productions of the franchise. According to reports from the actress, who would have had to play both Ripley and Newt depending on which of the two endings was chosen, the characters would have been recovered through the use of cloning, genetic engineering or even travel in the time. The ploy used varied depending on the ending that one would then decide to use.

The final decision then saw this sort of crossover discarded, leaving the actress quite unsatisfied, who had nevertheless found herself at ease in the role of one of the heroines of the Alienverse.