Peter Briggs puts Anderson on the spot

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As most of you know Alien vs Predator has been released and to put it lightly it wasn't a blockbuster hit. Well since its release Paul W.S. Anderson has been covering his back. Bloody Disgusting sat down with the orginal scribe for AvP, Peter Briggs. One of the funniest moments in the interview is when Briggs finds out that Anderson has been telling fans that most of the "best scenes" were cut from the movie.

He did?? Really!? That's...fairly unbelievable. I've got several drafts of his script from over the last year or so, including the last few shooting drafts, and...he said that? What "best scenes"? Pretty much what he wrote in the script's up there.

The only major thing of any consequence I'm flashing on is a draft scene where the Predator strips out the Alien's brain and plays chicken-claw with it. There's a peachy coffee table book of the A.D.I. effects work that I picked up at the Comicon, and there's some pics of that in there. It's not like Anderson wrote a lot of fight scenes in his thing to begin with. And I don't think either of the opening scenes were ever filmed? There's some dialog that's been trimmed, sure, but...?

Briggs also reacted to Anderson's explaination of the Queen being pumped full of hormones by the Predators machine in the "real movie".

Well, that's...enlightening. I have no idea where he's getting that from. It's not mentioned in any line of dialog, or even scene description, in any of his drafts I've read. Unfortunately, this particular horse has bolted, so it's pointless trying to close the stable door now.

You know, I once asked an executive behind Anderson's "Event Horizon" what the longer cut of that was like, because I actually liked some stuff in it, and he told me flatly there wasn't one. So, a longer "A vs P" cut? I'd certainly be very curious....

It sounds like Anderson has some explaining to do.

Source: Bloody Disgusting

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