Colin Strause, 31, and Greg Strause, 32, are brothers, which means there are two of them. They are the co-directors of Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem. They went into the project determined to restore honor to both franchises by pumping up the violence and gore and making it up to fans for the inexplicably PG13-rated (and just generally inexplicable) first Alien vs. Predator. It's their first time out as directors, but they are life-long special effects geeks who, since forming their own boutique company Hydraulx, have worked on such pictures as 300, The Day After Tomorrow, Terminator 3, Looney Tunes: Back in Action, and the Fantastic Four films. They've been working professionally since their very early twenties, having basically jumped in right after high school, using what was supposed to be their college tuition as start-up money. All of which is to say that I would have regarded them as the coolest guys in the world when I was eleven, and there's no point in pretending that I don't find them impressive even now.
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