5 Franchise

Predator (1987) franchise 1

A spacecraft enters one of the Earth's rainforests, jettisons an alien space pod, which descends to Central America to hunt. Later at an operation's base in Guatemala, a Covert-Ops U.S. Special Forces Unit, led by Major Alan Schaefer, nicknamed “Dutch” he is ordered to rescue a cabinet minister.

Dutch and his team are mercenary’s, freelance for hire. They meet a CIA agent “Dillon” he is an old-time friend of “Dutch." On their way to find the rebel base somewhere in the middle of the dense forest, where the cabinet minister is supposedly being held. “Dutch” and his team come across the remains of an American military unit, headed by another friend of “Dutch” and his team, “Jim Harper." 

All his units had been killed, and their skin was stripped from their bodies, left hanging upside-down in a tree.The whole film franchise was a hit with sci-fi fans, but the first in this series. Predator (1987) was most memorable, for the creature was not seen for a lot of the time in the film; he was mostly cloaked, with this cool device.

This franchise went on to make four more films Predator 2 (1990), Aliens vs. Predator (2004), Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem (2007), Predators (2010), being the last; followed by a list of novels, eleven in all.

Games also came out of the film franchise, there were thirty-eight officially licensed games across all major game consoles, and so for me this was most memorable. I played them, all, and I got much immersed in the games experience.

 

 

Alien (1979) franchise 2

This franchise also a big hit with sci-fi fans, it starts in space with the spaceship Nostromo, which wakes up all the crew from deep hyper sleep on their way back to earth. The ship is instructed to change cores after receiving an unknown signal from a derelict alien spacecraft.

The team lead by “sigourney weaver” Ellen Ripley enter the spaceship only to find they are not alone, the whole craft is filled with eggs from the aliens they objects, which releases a creature that attaches itself to the faces of their victims rendering them unconscious later, the creature which is classed as a “parasite”. 

They eventually die’s and fall off the face of the crewman, waking him up seemingly fine. Later it bursts out of the crewman’s chest and, after rapidly growing shedding its skin, then turning into an eight-foot creature, starts killing other members of the crew.

This franchise went on to make three more films, Aliens (1986), Alien 3 (1992), and Alien Resurrection (1997). There are also plans to make the film Prometheus in (2012), Filming began in March 2011, and Prometheus is scheduled to be released on June 8, 2012, directed by “Ridley Scott” one of the grates film directors of our time.

This franchise also is linked to the Predator franchise; followed by a list of novel, ten novels, which make it one of the biggest for films and games. I personally own all the films of Predator and Aliens on blue-ray and watch them all the time. 

 

Lord of the Rings (2001) 3

This franchise holds a very personal significant to me as my uncle “Billy Ike” sister “June Ike” married the son “Gabriel Tolkien” in 1952. They lived in Blackminster in Worcestershire, and his father “J. R. R. Tolkien” started writing his autobiography in the garden of Blackminster, which inspired him because of its dutiful settings.

I had a personal interview with “Billy Ike” he gave me grate insight to the grate man, but dew to its nature, unfortunately there is a lot of info that is personal, so I cannot use it. But his other son “John Tolkien” became a priest after completing a university degree; he is named “Farther John” and left a great deal of money to the church, plus they have a fully sign Edition of the books a gifted from  “J. R. R. Tolkien”, they were the very first books printed.

Lord of the Rings (2001) franchise Directed by “Peter Jackson” The Lord of the Rings is an epic film trilogy, based on the three-volume book of the same name by English author “J. R. R. Tolkien”. The films are The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), The Two Towers (2002) and The Return of the King (2003), a prequel is being made, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is a two-part film is expected to 

be released "around Christmas" 2011.

The game franchise started in 1982 with the game” The Hobbit” relisted on Sinclair 48k zx Spectrum.  They then spanned over 29 years, to give some of the most loved games of their time.

Call of Duty (2003) franchise 4

Call of Duty was a game based on the Arena engine and was released in2003. The game was developed by Infinity Ward. Based on World War2, and simulates the infantry and combined arms warfare. In September 2004 an expansion pack, Call of Duty: United Offensive, both produced by Activision, was a stunning game, developed by Gary Matter. Interactive, Pi Studios made a lot of contributions to the game.

Call of Duty 2 is a first-person shooter video game and sequel to t Call of Duty. It was developed by Infinity Ward, also published by Activision. This game was also set during World War II and had the perspectives of the soldiers in the Red Army, British and United States Army. It was released in 2005 for PC, 2006 for Mac OS X and in November 2005 for the Xbox 360. Other versions of the game were made for smaller things like phones.

Call of Duty 3 was also set off World War 2, this first-person shooter and was the third Call of Duty video game in the series. Released in (2006) this new game was to follow, American, Canadian, British, and French Resistance and the Polish armies after D-Day, and was not to be developed by Infinity Ward. The new developed of the third Call of Duty was (Treyarch)

 

Call of Duty: World at War was the fifth game of the series, and returns again to World War II released in  June  (2008) it was confirmed that the title would be Call of Duty World at War and would be set in the Pacific and Eastern front. In North America on November (2008) and November (2008) in Europe, June (2009) World at War has sold over 11 million copies. 

They when on to make Call of Duty Black Ops, Call of Duty Modern Warfare, Call of Duty Modern Warfare two, and in (2011) Call of Duty Modern Warfare three, the fourth of the series sold over 13 million copies.

I myself have played every one in the series, and have enjoyed the games immersiveness, but the next time they make one in the Call of Duty series it would be better to come out of world war two, and then take it into a new age, there is only so many angel you can do for this time period.

 

James Bond (1982 franchise 5

This is one of the best loved franchises which spans an impressive 29 year, and still very much alive (James Bond) hold a very deep interest for me, and one I hopes never runs dry. Ian Fleming wrote a whole list of novels, and portrayed Bond as a more gritty character, and Daniel Craig is filling this part true to his form, but one of the most loved James Bonds has to be “Sir Sean Connery."  

If you ask anyone to name one old bond 9/10 they will say “Sean Connery."

The game franchise the James Bond video game series didn't really take off till the release of Goldeneye 007 in (1997), which I had myself on the Nintendo 64 and still have today and still play.

There were nine Canceled James Bond 007 video games in all, they consisted of, Octopus, a racing version of Goldeneye, Tomorrow Never Dies (The Mission Continues), The World Is Not Enough, 007 (Racing the Sequel), Phoenix Rising, Casino Royal, Goldeneye (Rogue Agent The Sequel), Risico.