The Predator is to be an “event” film according to Shane Black. Speaking to Matt Patches at Thrillist about The Nice Guys, Shane Black has talked a little about The Predator. He talks about what attracted him to the project and his expectations of The Predator:
“They called me and I was reluctant. I said, “Look. You guys at Fox, I mean, I enjoy these movies, but we’ve been churning out these AVP whatever, they each cost a certain amount of money, they’re okay, but there’s no effort to elevate them or make them any kind of an event.” They’re just sort of another Predator. “Oh, there’s another one that came out.” They said, “What if we said to you we want to reinvent this, and really treat it with as much of an event status, or as much hoopla as we would the Alien prequel, which is coming out also? We really want to make this something. The kind of movie that people line up for.” I said, “Really, you’ll spend a bunch of money?” They go, “Yep.” I go, “Make it really scale, spectacle?” “Yep.” “Shit, that sounds interesting.”
The Predator to be an “event” film according to Shane Black.
The preceding film, Predators, was a notoriously cheap film that was put together very quickly. From the sounds of it 20th Century Fox are upping the ante with The Predator and want something with a much grander scale.
The Thrillist also asked Shane Black about the recent news that Arnold Schwarzenegger was going to be talking to the director/writer about appearing in The Predator, stating that his role in the film was “still in talks.”
The film itself was underwhelming as balls, but Arnie himself was good. Sabotage was pretty hit-and-miss but that kind of happens when you're filming sixty million endings.
His performance in The Last Stand wasn't so great though, but it's still probably the best of his comeback movies.
Whether people like them or not, Arnold was terrific in all of them.
How about cyborg Dutch from the avp arcade game "lets party"?!!!
The year is 2116 or a decade before uscm face xenos and preds (its the future). Dutch and any human in this time WHO DEFEATED A PREDATOR ON CLASSIFIED RECORD are long dead.
But the CIA kept their DNA for cloning.
a band of predators have abducted the president of the United States and left a beacon for elite soldiers to rescue him...also humans think the preds want us all dead because there is a heat signature in the center of the earth...which is really a hive setup by preds for the sequel avp war with machicko
or preds have ambushed all archives of pred tech and classified files to level the hunting field
idk idea kinda died add to or come up with something new but keep dutch in the pic....yes it will be terminator 4/5/6 arnie is always the terminator
Pretty much this, at the end of the day, Arnie's only human. And because he beat a Predator, it didn't just boost his badass status, it boosted humanity's badass status.
If just one can outsmart them... there could be more of us who can, and there were e.g. Harrigan, Royce.
So like the novelization of Predator 2 made clear, it makes more sense for them to hunt other humans to seek out more of us who are cunning like Dutch, Harrigan and Royce.
At the end of the day he was a talented and crafty ex-Special Forces solider. He wasn't some martial arts expert super-human mutant who aliens want to abduct to do experiments on and clone. He just outsmarted a Predator and killed it during a very short encounter.
Let's not make a Terminator 3/4/5 out of The Predator.
Regardless of story, we're all going to go watch it. It's been a while since a Predator movie has been in theaters.
The novel Predator was a very different creature, though. Physically it's nothing like the one eventually used in the movie, it's motives are completely different too. In the film it isn't scientifically studying men, it's hunting them for the fun of it.
My second wishlist would be for Arnold to play an old general about to retire and being escorted by a platoon, who encounter a few Predators.
The year is 2116 or a decade before uscm face xenos and preds (its the future). Dutch and any human in this time are long dead.
But the CIA kept their DNA for cloning. Predators have ambushed
I always thought about that scene with a twist where the Predator kills everyone in the facility he was captured in, but specifically leaves Dutch alive because he recognizes him.
Or Arnold's now in the CIA and decides to send in a crack team trained personally by him to ambush and capture every damn Predator that comes a hunting. Before they know it, there are hundreds of them locked away. As soon as the government realizes that these Predator are a massive nuance The Predator arrives to find out what's been going on. Negotiations begin and there's only one solution. Old Dutch vs An aging predator elder. Each leads a team of soldiers in combat against each other. No weapons, no artificial advantage. They wage this war from afar strategically advising each team on how to best precede. Dutch's team wipes out the Predators. The Elder then blows everything to hell as Arnold Smokes a Cigar and says, "whatever".
I actually agree with this, but that doesn't mean Dutch can't still be involved. What if whoever he's advising actually captures a Predator? What if he's actually there giving them helpful info wherever they take it to? That could make him a legit target.
I imagine Dutch would be behind curtains as far as Predator is concerned. I don't see how the Predator would track down who's behind the mission without dealing with paperwork. If Dutch wasn't personally involved in the action, the Predator wouldn't come in contact with him and connecting the dots about Dutch would be some sort of detective work which Predators are not really interested in.
And Dutch is too old to actively go after one. That would be insane. And a particular kick in the nuts would be if a 70 year old Dutch is able to kill a Predator. That would be the final Predator movie cause after that the Predators would quit what they're doing.
If he's helping people to actively go after and capture Predators, I don't see why they wouldn't decide all bets are off.
Kill a Predator with a trap again? I don't think so. He can't even get into a situation where he fights the Predator, nor would a Predator fight him, in my vision of what Predators are like.
Dutch would be the trophy. The worthwhile challenge is getting by all the security. It'd be a slightly different take on the hunting theme. Along the way he could do battle with more worthy prey on his way to Dutch's head.
I also thought his timing for taking the trophy was wierd
I thought I'd want to see skinning happen, but the more I think about it the more it seems it's much more terrifying to see the end result without seeing the actual process. Like any horror, it's good to leave some violence for the imagination. But on the other hand, Predators are so badass, I want to see them do horrible gory things.
I don't want to see their home planet. I love the mystery about them and it's fairly certain any portrayal of it would be lackluster. Maybe just a quick shot, like in AvP:R, probably the only thing it did right.
In most of the predator movies the Predator has been hunting small game. Jungle men, drug dealers and even rounded up some killers to drop off on their hunting planet. Yea, aliens can sit this one out. Maybe a decent change in pace would be for the Predator to go after some real big game. Like the president of the united states, other wise known as Dutch.
I don't especially want this. It'll more likely than not come off as cheesy.
Totally unnecessary. It would just be like AVP:R, needlessly unpleasant gore to try and be cool or shocking. The original was violent without being excessively disgusting.
1 Alan Silvestri to do the score ...his IMDB says he is still in business but prolly cost a good penny which fox has given Mr Black
2 More screen time with or using the predator space craft make it do something else cool we havent seen before. We all love this predator character because of his awesome ass toys...like batman. Maybe show the ship burrow into the ground like in the batman v predator comics
3 More screen time on the predator homeworld or one of their worlds (adding a language will be nice if done right. not sure how to do alien language "right") a jungle type, desert, or something new??? tron capital might be a bit much and copy cat ish.
4 have the anytime pred/classic pred in it somewhere and not let him get spanked. I was happy to see new predators in latest pred film but I love classic pred no homo...it hurt my soul seeing him beat down by something new. The only one can kill him is Dutch
5 As always some new gadgets for pred to kill with I like wolf with his dual caster action.
6 I am not saying this bit is needed but please show someone being skinned alive
7 I dare you guys to bring back the old cloak from the first 2 preds...I know those effects are dated but it was awesome
Honestly, we need an AvP do-over with the original story in place (AVP: Prey) with Machiko and the future setting and all that good stuff. Give the series the respectable movie it deserves.
But on topic, yes, a large interwoven universe would make a lot of us very pleased.