Confirmed by the guys over at Ain’t It Cool News, the director to take part in the latest eighties remake has been chosen. Director Nimrod Antal, and no that is his real first name, who’s most recent work Armored will crash into theaters December 4th is filling up the seat. Previous work of the filmmaker includes the 2007 thriller Vacancy.

In an interview with Robert Rodriguez, he discloses a tiny bit of information in regards to the plot:

But it still involves a very intense group of people stranded on a Predator planet discovering unspeakable horrors (that are not always from outside their group). So like the original movie, the title does have a double meaning.
Aliens was a different take on the Alien idea, and an original movie in it’s own right, and that’s what we want to do with this.

As to how this movie will be viewed, one of the guys at Fox told me “No one is ever going to talk about AVP again after this film, I will stake my life on it.”

Rodriguez is currently attached as a producer on this film, also with his well known company Troublemaker Studios.