Fred Dekker says Predator 4 script complete via Facebook update. News on Predator 4 has been very sparse since it was first announced back in June of 2014. The last we heard on the project was in August when producer John Davis told Collider “this is the most entertaining way to reinvent a franchise.”
In this small update from one of the Predator 4 writers, Fred Dekker posted a picture of a Predator drawn by 7 year old Angus Herndon with the caption: “A character from the new screenplay we just turned in.”
Very few other details about the upcoming Predator sequel are known. The film will be directed by Predator alumni Shane Black (who played Hawkins and was brought onto the original project to provide some oversight). He is also co-writing the script with Fred Dekker who is perhaps most well known for his work on The Monster Squad.
Shane Black’s most recent project has been The Nice Guys, a mystery thriller set in the 1970s staring Ryan Gosling, Russell Crowe and Kim Basinger. The Nice Guys is currently slated for a May 2016 release.
Whilst originally reported as a reboot of Predator, it was later clarified that the project would be a sequel; what Shane Black called an “inventive sequel“. We also know that Robert Rodriguez will not be involved in Predator 4.
And as of June, Arnold Schwarzenegger has not been contacted in regards to appearing in the latest instalment. Although stating he hadn’t be contacted about Predator 4, Schwarzenegger did express confidence in the writing capabilities of Shane Black.
What about you guys and girls? What would you like to see in the new Predator film? Are you confident in Shane Black and Fred Dekker? Let us know in the comments below. Thanks to Johnny Handsome for the tip.
The first draft is quite lame, the movie is extremely different.The only better thing was the R rating tone of the draft, Danny also saves the situation using a real gun.
In the last screenplay the scene with Danny explaining to Slater that his dad died from cancer was cut, and there is another one where a bunch of kids in Halloween costumes ask Slater for an autograph.
The scene with Danny trying to stop Death was more meaningful if they've kept the first deleted scene...
It was actually a Meta spoof on his type of scripts and films
Oh, really? The way I always heard it, it was originally his, but he distances himself from the final film because it got changed so much.
He didn't actually write the first script. He rewrote it , then it got changed a bit from what he wrote
Shane Black is a master and every one of the films he has written or directed is just amazing.
OK, so in all seriousness Last Action Hero was a bit of a mess, and Iron Man 3 (which I liked) was missing much of his usual magic because the PG-13 rating put a clamp on his usual golden expletive-filled dialogue, but all his other scripts have been shit-hot.
"Germaine Greer in Uproar"
"Breaking news, aliens have made first contact with Earth! They are now complaining about their women to the UN."
Also, another way of looking at why they hunt, it's to get away from the ladies back home.
"BROKEN-TUSK!!!!"
"Eeerrr, I got a hunting trip planned with my buddies, see ya in a year honey! " *slams ship door and flies into space hurriedly*
"Urh, I was only gonna ask you if you've seen my favourite pair of sandals lying around... typical males... always have a convenient hunting trip planned whenever they're actually needed! "
In the words of Limp Bizkit "I do it all for the Nookie"
Females are so hard to please, males don't know what they want, so they just hunt a bunch of skulls from various creatures on various planets in hope to find something they'd like. That's why we see those necklaces and stuff made from skulls. Those are presents for the females.
I'm sure we can all relate and get a deeper understanding of the poor Predators. It's the same thing whole universe round
Lol oddly that would be quite something. The more trophies a hunter has the better the chance of getting the best female
exist and why not have one hanging around, even if only in the back ground, just to have something new and different. I like that the predators looks vary from movie to movie, although not a fan of the super black preds,
and I would love to see females as well as other castes such as warriors and technicians on a ship or home
world setting. Not as a main plot but just as some flavoring. The one thing that I did like about the hunting reserve
planet that was strongly under used was more aliens to hunt even an outlaw yautja but mainly a T-Rex type of
creature for an opening sequence.
*It Didn't Work in Terminator 3 and it won't work in a Predator movie either.
^^^^^ This ^^^^^^^
*No "Super" Predators. *No "Female" Predators.
*All I want is just a Regular Bad Ass Predator. Is that Too Much to ask for ?
Aww, but I wanna see what Predator toilet rooms look like.
*Runs away violently*
The extended universe is made for money and also to feed the people who like to know more, want to know more.No problem but these things should remain in the EU not in the films.
I don't wanna see how a predator toilet rooms looks like you know or how the females if any, look like, bring back the old school hunter, removes all the wrongly designed weapons and equipment wich started to appear in AVP, go back to the roots Shane , to what made Predator so great and popular.
The violence, the pratical fx,the hunt and the survival, keep it simple and efficient.
It's like with pretty much anything - You do it once, you hand it in for review. Then each subsequent round of review and revision is another draft. Films can go through countless drafts before folk are happy and ready for filming. That's not always the case and usually indicative of a troubled film though - Alien 3, for example.
Yeah I think majority if not everyone agrees
female predator = ball of confusion
I would really love that! Humans fighting another alien, and this can confuse our military commanders once news of an alien Predator begin arriving as this other race we're fighting may not be as well known. We might start thinking they got cloaking tech and are very brutal, until we start finding their bodies as well...
The script actually opens on a Spanish Galleon but it turns out it was actually in the future all along. It's a rubbish script though. You can read it here: http://www.avpgalaxy.net/files/scripts/script-predators-rodriguez.pdf
I was thinking yesterday it might be interesting to introduce a new race of aliens. I was thinking how the formula for Predator 1 and 2 is that the human protagonists are fighting against human enemies first and then the Predator interjects. What if the 4th film takes place in the future and the human characters are actually fighting against another alien species.
This is great. Sounds really promising. It appears this movie will be a direct sequel to the original movie, probably not going to include the others. Great to hear him talk about the movie.
The first one ended in a semi cliffhanger, but even then, it left you wondering "what will happen with the chestburster?" For all we knew, it could've been found and killed, or it may have overran the ship Alien style.
Then the sequel comes, and it tells the story of what happens after. And it's also a self contained one, towards the end, humanity clears up the mess with a nuke and a corporation gains a plasma caster. What's there to really continue?
Set it in the future, you can easily explain the high tech of humanity as progress through time, and if you've seen AvP-r, you'd be able to guess the plasma caster helped. But it ain't that essential to the story.
What's essential is that it's in the future and is a good story. If AvP 3 comes out, I think it's the final chance to fix this crossover. I liked the first two, but they were so universally hated, so the third if it comes out would be the make or break for the crossover as far as films are concerned. That's how I feel about it.
As in do what most of us actually want, go to the future and tell a proper Alien vs. Predator story that doesn't have any direct links (other than the very core concept) to the 2 previous ones so that it can be watched and more importantly, enjoyed, without requiring anyone to have seen the first 2. It can be quite easily done where it doesn't have to ruin anything from the first 2 so people such as yourself aren't upset.
http://www.avpgalaxy.net/category/predator-4/
This is everything so far.
As for the rest of what you've said, it's fine that you don't like it. I just shared my two cents. I remember saying it before, with this franchise you do happen to be hard to please. I don't get why the Super Predators ruins it for you, I mean, Yautja don't use preserve planets, it's the rogue clan that does. And seeing as how they aren't so liked, I doubt we'd be seeing the Super Preds for a looong time if not ever.
What did you think of the Killer Clan? They pretty much behave the same way, killing things for fun, using attack dogs (trained Aliens, the BSPs did this in AvP Evolution as well). BSPs are pretty much the film's Killer Clan. Both have radically different customs and they have clashed with the more traditional Predators.
As for Prometheus, I honestly don't get why it bastardized the franchise for you... especially seeing as you liked it at first? Sure it's not a movie masterpiece but it has opened so many new doors for this series.
Movies come first! That's definitely a given of course, the EU (for almost every franchise) is generally just glorified filler material.
I am chill. I'm just expressing things I don't want to see. No wrong in that.
That's subjective and a matter of opinion. Shit, the same thing could be said about EVERY movie that's out there.
I don't see any wrong in expressing one's frustrations. We are all passionate about something. I know folks who are still fuming about Joe Quesada pretty much erasing Spider-Man's marriage, and that's just a comic book. Shit, one of them is Linkara aka Lewis Lovhaug. And then there are people who are still mad about the Star Wars prequels (last I checked.. their ranting is.. generally accepted as the norm).
I have a feeling it's a very low chance, but still... We don't know anything. Keep in mind I am not saying anything bad about a movie we know nothing about but after the disappointment of the last two recent movies, can you honestly blame a guy? Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. But do know I have not said anything negative about this upcoming film.... Yet.
What I am saying is they added things which I felt weren't necessary, and changed/retcon things which I thought really didn't need to be retconned whatsoever. Now you may see everything as fitting together, but I don't and my view is very black and white. Remember how I said that I felt that the old AVP universe/concepts/characters from 1989 - 2010 and how I see them as either dead or in limbo? That's what I'm trying to say what I am frustrated at. It's not so much that Incursion didn't have references to Prometheus or PREDATORS in it, it's more so that it's set in this rebooted/retconned universe. You can have lack of references but this new material is set in that rebooted world. The old one might be dead. That's what I'm saying.
I've already shifted my focus from Alien-Predator to other things like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Street Fighter. Yes, TMNT is my second love after Alien-Predator and well... I'll say this, and a lot of people are probably going to hate me for but right now, I'm seeing the treatment of TMNT as something more favorable. At least every incarnation and iteration is still very much alive (even what was assumed to be retconned universe-- surprisingly, Image's TMNT universe.. IS STILL active despite Peter Laird rendering it non-canon to the Mirage comics). The only TMNT movie I generally dislike happens to be TMNT 2007... which was considered the fourth movie.. until Turtles Forever thankfully retconned it as it's own separate universe.
As for Street Fighter? Very little changes about Street Fighter and it's still a popular franchise for it's fans.
If a new AVP does come out, I hope it's either set in the same universe as the previous AVP movies and old EU or the franchises get somewhere along the line.. well... you'd kill me if I say. I know everyone would.
I've never had a problem with Mothra, Ghidorah and Rodan appearing in the next movie. I grew up watching the Showa and Heisei era films. For me they have always been there since the beginning. So I don't see an issue with that. Same with King Kong. Is Godzilla your favorite franchise?
It's been five years since PREDATORS release, and I've given it five viewings. It hasn't grown on me. As for Prometheus... I actually liked it at first. I even gave it a glowing review when I first saw it. If I can find the link to said review on this forum... I'd be more than happy to show you that I actually liked it at first, but my opinion about it changed and I don't think it's going to be growing on me.
Well we don't know entirely if the Perserve Planet is associated with just the Super Predators. It depends on your source of information. If you follow the Prequel comics, then it's revealed that both species use the planet to hunt on. If you follow the motion comic on the DVD and Blu-ray-- then it suggests that the Super Predators hunt the normal Predators on the Preserve Planet through actions. But... if you look to the Hungarian magazine interviews and read statements from Rodriguez, he did state that the normal Predators dump their outcast on the planet.. which sort of muddy things. So it's either a prison planet which was turned into a preserve planet by a rogue clan or something else.
I can... somewhat agree to that. While I do like AVP-R, I do acknowledge that... it does have a lot of problems which could've been vastly improved upon and we probably would've, could've, should've gotten something much more. The Alien designs were awkward, the PredAlien design was a hastly and wrong decision made by the suits to change what perhaps could've been seen.
I feel that we might get another thing to agree on Rakai. AvP-R, Predators and Prometheus are all weakest instalments in their respective franchises. Let's hope future is kind for our tastes.
You may not like Predators or Prometheus, but that doesn't make them crap. I highly doubt Shane Black is gonna put Prometheus stuff in his movie, heck, even Predators stuff.
You are honestly treating it like some phobia. Almost every other post of yours regarding future media is "I hope it doesn't have Prometheus/Predators stuff", dude CHILL, it's not as bad as you make it out to be. No offence pal.
I think Master has a good point, you should take a break. I think you are taking this way too seriously. Of course there's things we all don't like and that's fine, but calm down man. It's just a movie. It's like people who still hate on the 1998 Godzilla to this day, it's just a film man.
You know I like Prometheus and Predators, so I won't be bothered if elements of them are featured. But I honestly highly doubt they will be, it's a very low chance mate so you may be worrying over nothing. Wait for Shane Black to first begin releasing some details man.
You know what? I'll put your mind at ease here. Predator: Incursion had no Prometheus or Predators stuff in it. In fact, the previous Alien trilogy didn't have much either except for Out of the Shadows having a medpod and River of Pain exploring the derelict a little bit and vaguely describing a fight between the Engineers and Aliens in it and that's it. None of the elements got in the way of the story whatsoever. River of Pain was still your good ol' Colonial Marines vs Aliens, it was expanding on the lore and showing human colonists struggling in the frontier, no gooey stuff to worry about.
The only one featuring a butt load of Prometheus themes was basically Fire and Stone...
Aliens Defiance looks like it won't be featuring Prometheus things in it.
If all of this is troubling you so much, then you should do as Master suggested and take a break. Enjoy the other franchises like I do sometimes, I go to Godzilla, Assassin's Creed and so on. Hell, I took one LONG break from Assassin's Creed after getting somewhat bored with it after Revelations, and then AC 4 Black Flag came out and I came back with a fiery crash as my interest got reignited. Maybe somewhere down the line, a new AvP media may come out and you will be pulled back from this jaded viewpoint and be interested once more.
Don't get me wrong, I know what it's like to disagree with where your favourite franchise is heading. I hated the idea of Mothra and King Ghidorah in the next Godzilla film, but hey, beggars cannot be choosers... I don't own the Godzilla franchise so I thought "screw it, who cares if Mothra and Ghidorah are in it?" It ain't gonna stop me from enjoying the next Godzilla film and over time, this grew on me and I accepted it now, heck, at first I was wary of the Kong crossover until I accepted it once it was confirmed.
And I had this really trivial pet peeve about the upcoming Toho film making its Godzilla bigger than the Legendary one. But I got over it once I re-evaluated my opinions a bit.
One day, you might like Predators and Prometheus, you never know lol, things tend to grow on people.