They can’t be canon. Prometheus and Alien Covenant did away with that idea. The Xenomorphs weren’t even created until far, far in the future and the AvP films are/were set in present day earth. Those are just nods, like the Xeno skull in P2.
Like I said, I DESPERATELY want to be wrong. And I’ll make a new post extolling the movie if it’s good. It’s just that so many good things have gone to shit in the last several years… Terminators 3, 4, 5 & 6, Star Trek Into Darkness and Beyond, Castlevania, Cpt. Marvel, Wonder Woman 2, Iron man 3, Thor 3, Jurassic world 2, Ghostbusters 2016, Hellboy 2019, the list goes on…
As an old fart, and fan of all these things since the beginning of all of them, watching them suck now makes me sad. And The Predator made me lose all faith that a fun, ridiculous testosterone-fueled, R-rated franchise could make it through the Hollywood mindset of today. And the synopsis and now the poster did nothing to give me any confidence. I’ve given all of the above stinkers (except Ghostbusters. Haven’t seen it. Never will. You DON’T REBOOT A PERFECT FILM.) “the benefit of the doubt” or was genuinely excited to see them, only to have my spirits drop and my wallet empty. And thats just it. They have to convince me, the paying customer that this is worth my time and money. And they haven’t. In fact, they’ve done the opposite.