Quote from: RakaiThwei on Jun 26, 2014, 06:47:40 PMEveryone wants something new, but without straying too far from the core concepts. I personally felt that PREDATORS stayed a little too far from that when they had introduced the ideas which were in that particular movie such as the preserve planet and the idea of the Super Predators. So I'm hoping that Shane doesn't introduce something new that doesn't contradict what was established or falls too far off from the first two movies.
Has Predator culture been explored enough? I would absolutely think so and I don't think anymore needs to be added onto it. PREDATORS did that with the Super Predators, and those lot happen to be something of a mixed bag as it is. Someone had mentioned different occupations for Predators, and that's something I may want to see depending on how it's pulled off. Sure, Wolf in AvP-R was supposed to be a Cleaner but he came off more as a Hunter than Cleaner.
I remember seeing someone mention a Predator Cowboy, and while the idea sounds silly in the initial title.. It could work. Think about it, imagine a Predator who also happens to be a lawman, or something equal to a cop as far as Predators are concerned. A Predator who goes after the psychotics and criminal caste of the Predator race. I wouldn't mind seeing a Predator movie where there are two Predators, one who is a psychotic killer that relentlessly kills it's prey regardless if they are armed and dangerous or not, and the other who happens to be so bent on hunting this other Predator while effectively removing anything that's in his path. Humans would be caught in the middle, with both Predators posing as a threat to them.
Or how about a Predator Trapper that has lost an alien creature (not a Xenomorph or River Ghost)-- a creature completely different that poses a threat to humans and the Predator itself? The creature gets loose and is now on the run. Humans try to kill this creature to ensure their own survival, and the Predator Trapper is trying to capture said creature while also killing humans to ensure that it's intended quarry is not killed. Both creatures would still pose a threat to humans.
Just some ideas here and there on what new things could be explored.
Those ideas are not bad. But I mean, there's literally a hundred possibilities for the Predator franchise. The only thing I hope is that they already have a good idea for what the movie will be about. It's seriously difficult to do something that respects the Predator essence and at the same time works as the "natural step" to evolve the franchise.
But the studios usually greenlight movies without even having a script or an idea of what they're going to do, so they sometimes probably choose the first script treatment they offer them because they don't care about respecting the movie, they only want to milk it to make more money out of it.
For what it seems, Black was simply offered a lot of money and he's barely starting to think what he's going to do with the script (like "mmh, I would like it to acknowledge the events of the past movies, I'd like to create a richer mythology..."), I don't think he had a visionary idea for the Predator before the contract.
So, the only thing we can hope is that Black comes with a brilliant idea, although like I said, it's extremely hard to do a great Predator successor movie. I say, again, the Predators movie idea was nice, the movie was OK, it was decent, but it wasn't something brilliant. The concept wasn't the one to create the "evolution" of the Predator franchise, but it was fair, only to equal the one of the first two movies (in the best of the results) and keep on with the quality.
So again, unless they're able to come with a really clever concept before the production date arrives, they will most likely release in the end something that is "decent" or "OK" at best.
