Omegas VS Hunters

Omegas VS Hunters (also known as OVH or OVH: Battle of Gods) is a 2020 American science fiction horror and action film directed by Guillermo del Toro and starring Anne Hathaway, Idris Elba, Thomas Brodie-Sangster. It is the first installment of the Omegas VS Hunters franchise, adapting a crossover bringing together the eponymous creatures of the Omega and Hunter series, a concept which originated in a 2016 comic book. del Toro, Ridley Scott and Alfonso Cuarón wrote the story, and adapted the story into a screenplay. Their writing was influenced by Aztec mythology, the comic book series, and the writings of Erich von Däniken.

Set in 2020, this film follows a group of archaeologists assembled by billionaire Charles Stryker Ashford (Sangster) for an expedition to the mysterious moon of LV-1004 to investigate a mysterious star map. Ashford hopes to claim the find for himself, and his group discovers a pyramid below the surface of a whaling station. Hieroglyphs and sculptures reveal that the pyramid is a hunting ground for Hunters who kill Omegas as a rite of passage. The humans are caught in the middle of a battle between the two species and attempt to prevent the Omegas from leaving the moon.

Omegas VS Hunters entered production in April 2010, with extensive design phases during which the technology and creatures that the film required were developed. Principal photography began in March 2011, with an estimated US$120–130 million budget. The project was shot using 3D cameras throughout, almost entirely on practical sets, and on location in England, Iceland, Spain, and Scotland. It was promoted with a marketing campaign that included viral activities on the web. Three videos featuring the film's leading actors in character, which expanded on elements of the fictional universe, were released and met with a generally positive reception and awards. Omegas VS Hunters was released on June 1, 2020, in the United Kingdom and on June 8, 2020, in North America. It grossed over $403 million worldwide. Reviews praised both the film's visual aesthetic design and the acting, most notably Hathaway's performance as the explorer Seline. However, the plot drew a mixed response from critics, who criticized plot elements that remained unresolved or were predictable.

Plot
Thousands of years ago, Hunters are seeing hunting Omegas in a distant planet. However, the Hunters become unmatched by the numerous Omegas and their majority is killed. The Hunters swear eternal conflict against the Omegas.

In 2020, archaeologists Seline Wayne (Anne Hathaway) and Dallas Crawford (Idris Elba) discover a star map in Scotland that matches others from several unconnected ancient cultures. They interpret this as an invitation from humanity's forerunners, the "Hunters". Wealthy Charles Stryker Ashford (Thomas Brodie-Sangster), the CEO and young founder of Ashford Industries, funds and assemble an expedition to follow the map to the distant moon LV-1004 aboard the scientific vessel Pandora. The team includes archaeologists, linguistic experts, drillers and mercenaries. Arriving in some months, Mission director Guido Carbonelli (Giancarlo Gianini) informs them of their mission to find the Hunters, and not to make contact without his permission.

The Pandora lands on the barren, mountainous surface near a large artificial structure, which a team explores. As a Hunter ship reaches LV-1004's orbit, it blasts a shaft through the ice towards the source of the heat bloom. When the humans arrive at the site above the heat source, an abandoned whaling station, they find the shaft and descend beneath the ice. They discover a mysterious pyramid and begin to explore it, finding evidence of a civilization predating written history and what appears to be a sacrificial chamber filled with human skeletons with ruptured rib cages.

Inside they find stone cylinders, a monolithic statue of a humanoid head, and the decapitated corpse of a large alien, thought to be an Hunter; Seline recovers its head. The crew finds other bodies, leading them to surmise the species is extinct. Crew members Whilhelm (James D'Arcy), Lisa Miles (Kerry Washington) and Tony Maroni (Michael Fassbender) grow uncomfortable with the discoveries and attempt to return to Pandora, but become stranded in the structure when they get lost. The expedition is cut short when a storm forces the crew to return to the ship, but the pyramid's doors close, stopping anyone from getting out.

Inside the structure, a snake-like creature kills Whilhelm, and sprays a corrosive fluid that melts Maroni's helmet. Maroni falls face-first into a puddle of dark liquid. When the crew return, they find Whilhelm's corpse. Dallas separately discovers a control room containing a surviving Hunter in stasis, and a star map highlighting Earth. Meanwhile, Brad (James Purefoy) sickens rapidly. He is rushed back to Pandora, but Guido refuses to let him aboard, so in his faint, kills Brad with a flamethrower. Seline then discovers that Ashford has been hiding aboard Pandora. He explains that he wants to ask the Omega Supreme to prevent his death from his cancer. As Ashford prepares to leave for the structure.

Meanwhile, three Hunters land and kill the humans on the surface, making their way down to the pyramid and arriving just as the team unwittingly powers up the structure. An Omega Supreme awakes from cryogenic stasis and begins to produce eggs, from which facehuggers hatch and attach to several mercenaries trapped in the sacrificial chamber. Chestbursters emerge from the humans and quickly grow into adult Omegas. Conflicts erupt between the Hunters, Omegas and Humans, resulting in several deaths. Unbeknownst to the others, a Hunter is implanted with an Omega embryo.

Through translation of the pyramid's hieroglyphs the explorers learn that the Hunters have been visiting Earth for thousands of years. It was they who taught early human civilizations how to build pyramids, and were worshiped as gods. Every 100 years they would visit Earth to take part in a rite of passage in which several humans would sacrifice themselves as hosts for the Omegas, creating the "ultimate prey" for the Hunters to hunt. If overwhelmed, the Hunters would activate their self-destruct weapons to eliminate the Omegas and themselves. The explorers deduce that this is why the current Hunters are at the pyramid, and that the heat bloom was to attract humans for the purpose of making new Omegas to hunt.

A monstrous, mutated Maroni attacks the Pyramid's hangar bay and kills several crew members before he is killed by an super-armored Hunter. Ashford and a team return to the structure, accompanied by Dallas. Ashford speaks to the Omega Supreme an attempt to explain what he wants. The Supreme responds by decapitating Ashford and killing his team, before reactivating the spacecraft. Dallas flees and warns Seline that the Omega is planning to hatch it's eggs on Earth, convincing her to stop the spacecraft.

The remaining humans decide that the Hunters must be allowed to succeed in their hunt so that the Omegas do not reach Earth. Unfortunately, as the battle continues, Dallas is killed as he defends Seline. Almost all of the humans and Hunters are killed, leaving only Seline and a single Hunter to fight against the Omegas. The two form an alliance and use the Hunter's self-destruct device to destroy the pyramid and the remaining Omega. Seline and the Hunter reach the surface, where they battle the escaped Omega Supreme. They defeat the Supreme by attaching its chain to a water tower and pushing it over a cliff into the water, dragging the Supreme to the ocean floor. The Hunter, however, dies from its wounds.

A Hunter ship uncloaks and several Hunters appear. They collect their fallen comrade and present Seline with one of their spear weapons in recognition of her skill as a warrior. As they retreat into space, a chestburster with Hunter-like features erupts from the dead Hunter.