While initial reports revealed that Shane Black would be rebooting the Predator franchise, the director and screenwriter has now revealed to Collider that his upcoming movie will actually be an “inventive sequel” to Predator. You can find an excerpt from Collider’s report below:
“As far as Fred and I are concerned anyway, why start over, when you’ve all this rich mythology yet to mine?” Black said he doesn’t like reboots generally, but can “really get behind inventive sequels”, noting that he likes “the idea of expanding and exploring the existing Predator mythology, rather than hitting the restart button. He went on to say that Dekker, who’s writing the screenplay, is “perfect” for the project, adding the two had a blast writing the screenplay for The Monster Squad together.”
Thanks to Lemonade for the news.
Read more at http://www.hitfix.com/videos/shane-black-wants-the-predator-to-scare-the-hell-out-of-you-again#yai2Gqgo0KDwZ6ID.99
Nothing new.
Me too. I've got my tickets pre-booked but I'm not seeing it until the Wednesday after.
I think the perfect combination suits in between both as well. I really wouldn't object to seeing a CG Alien pulling off some of the moves that the Alien in Isolation did (mostly because I don't think it'd look anywhere near as memorizing or beautiful with a person in a suit) such as it's first reveal in the hospital.
Wednesday night. Really looking forward to the film as well to be honest!
A combination of both could be cool. Suits for the majority but with maybe a little CGI to show it moving around in an inhuman fashion - leaping and jumping infeasibly far and the like.
Imagine that.
And to throw another one in there, perhaps who will be playing the Predator this time around?
I'm mostly going to see how it goes on the night but I've got a few things in mind I'd like to ask. Also Hicks wanted to know who's doing the creature effects so I'll try and ask about that!
What are you going to ask him?
Have you got your questions sorted?
He does put it across weirdly.
SB - "I think that there's one of two ways we can go: either we use Schwarzenegger or we don't. And there's advantages to using him and there's a story to be told if we don't. I'm not going to tell you which one we choose."
- So the choice has been made?
SB - "We made a choice that I think is cool. We'll see what happens. "
He makes it sounds like they don't know at first and then makes it sound like they know.
Ask him if he thinks Bishop II is an android
The budget is still greater than ever before.
And the way he says "it's cool if we use him [Arnold] and there' a story to be told if we don't....I'm not going to tell you what we chose" sounds like Arnold won't be involved, considering Shane is more about the story.
Talks a little bit of Arnold and the franchise.
Shane Black talks about Predator suits.
http://www.denofgeek.com/us/movies/shane-black/255353/the-predator-exclusive-shane-black-talks-r-rating-and-more
The Movie will be Rated R!
I guess they will post the full interview later this month, when The Nice Guys hits Theaters, but again, i expect nothing new now.
I really start to like the secrecy surrounding the plot though, we know it's moving forward, the movie has a release date, they plan on shooting at the end of the year, so everything seems to be going well for them.
I'm just excited because this is essentially what i was expecting from Rodriguez when he announced Predators in 2009, i thought they would go different, new and bold and big and exciting, and it ended up being a really small movie that as a whole felt like a sparse version of the original Predator.
What People from today seem to forget though, is that the first Predator wasn't really a low Budget flick at all, it had a 18 Million Budget, that in '87 was a blockbuster budget for an action movie, they hired the biggest star of the 80s, hired Stan Winston, included complicated never seen before visual effects, shot on location in real jungles. It was a big summer movie while the rest of them played under radar, and Shane knows this and wants to bring it back with a bang, like it was with the first movie.
I like that they up the ante on this.
A small piece on The Predator being a "blockbuster" from HitFix. Just opinions and speculation, nothing new.
Hopefully we get some new info so it's worth the wait.
One of the reasons i didn't want to flat out say where i got the script news from back in November, i just didn't want to be that guy to get him into Trouble... only for him to share it to the public a couple of days later
BUT, i still wasn't that guy...
Also can't fault him on the concerns. So many websites report news without even reading what they're reporting.
Big news could simply be some other famous face in the starring role. Assuming it's Arnie-related is jumping the gun a little bit.
I asked about 50 Cent's statements about being in the movie. But I don't expect Fred to be answering that, and if that happens to be true-- then what's the point of keeping it secret since 50 pretty much let the cat out of the bag?
https://www.facebook.com/DirectorFredDekker/posts/810024849128835
I was wondering why the Predator section was quiet.
We really don't want this one rushed. Predators was pretty obviously rushed.
Let's all remember that the original Predator had a protracted production schedule and that only helped the movie by letting them iron out the films editing and getting the effects looking really good.
The script was just approved, now they have to Budget everything out, start pre-production, casting, location Scouts, suit and prop work, then another 2 months of shooting... they literally needed to begin filming this yesterday, yet they are all the way at the start.
My guess, they will start shooting in june/july for a summer 2017 release, which gives them enough time to sort everything out.