Arnold Schwarzenegger to meet Shane Black about The Predator according to an exclusive from The Arnold Fans. Speaking to the site at the annual Arnold Sports Festival, Schwarzenegger told the The Arnold Fans that he will be meeting with Shane Black about the upcoming Predator sequel:
“I haven’t talked with him (Shane Black) yet but I’m going to meet with him for lunch sometime soon. Just as soon as I’m finished with this (Arnold’s Sports Festival) and “The Apprentice” and all this stuff. But I will get together with him. If there is any news, we’ll of course let you know right away. There’s also a meeting coming up soon about Conan, about the project moving forward.”
The last time that Arnold Schwarzenegger spoke in regards to the new Predator film, he revealed he hadn’t been asked about it. Schwarzenegger did express confidence in the abilities of Shane Black though.
The story of The Predator is unknown at the minute. We do know that a completed script has been handed into Fox and that writer Fred Dekker is quite excited about it. Shane Black has called The Predator an “inventive sequel“. The film is currently set for release March 2nd 2018.
Thanks to Jann ElderPredator and RakaiThwei for the news!
Man, 2018. is far away. I need a steady dose of news about this movie, ASAP.
And he's been shot like a dozen times point blank plus fell from a distance into a bathroom not long after his own bath in liquid nitrogen..
For a human in such weakened states, even squirrels will kick our asses.
That would also serve as a little bit different ending to what we're used to by now for the endings. Something else is going on besides the main character figuring out a way to trick it, or at least on a larger scale than what we've seen so far.
He uses the disc to parry the City Hunter's Wristblades.
Also, ol' Pussyface only has one arm at this point, lets not forget that.
I think Harrigan used momentum, sometimes lighter fighters can use their opponents weight against them. Harrigan's smart disc likely reflected the Predator's blade and directed the force into another direction or something, it's been a while since I watched the fight. Or the Predator toyed with him like Anytime did with Dutch. That was both their mistakes, taking their sweet time and savouring the moment instead of acting now.
The whole movie showed the Predator was in a way seeing what Harrigan would do next (leaving Danny Boy's necklace for him to find it etc) and was in a way baiting him to chase the hunter to his hunting ground.
Besides, he also wanted to get that trophy out of the way, he's not risking losing his prize!
The only way to take out a Predator is with weapons or witty traps.Harrigan did use a pretty badass weapon, but he also managed to rival Predator during the fight and block/counter his attacks.
I just don't see anything special about Harrigan that made him worthy. Like that scene underground when Predator is done slaughtering everyone in the subway but runs away from Harrigan. Why not confront him there? He wanted to kill him just a little bit later in the meat factory, so it's not like he wasn't ready for him yet.
Just because someone is huge and beefy doesn't mean they are automatically a strong fighter.
Put Bruce Lee against someone like Brock Lesnar and Bruce Lee would have a decent chance, so long as he stays out of Brock's grip. It's not about strength but technique.
Also, big biceps don't mean hard punch, you need to KNOW how to punch and a scrawny ass shrimp can punch harder than a bullet. (It's called a Bullet Shrimp and it can punch much harder than Arnie)
Big muscles won't automatically make a Predator go for that person. It's skill, technique and so on. City Hunter didn't look and go "WOW, that guy driving that vehicle looks so beefy!" no, he looked at him use tactical thinking to go past the gang and ambush them and probably thought "DAMN, this guy's smart!"
Glover beat the Predator because he tricked him as you noticed, plus he had a smart disc, hell, YOU could kill a Predator if you tricked it and then sliced its belly with a smart disc... it really ain't that hard with such an insanely sharp tool.
As for Hanzo, well, Predator skin seems surprisingly vulnerable to cutting attacks as opposed to blunt force. Hence why they take explosions literally to the face and shrug it off but a slice makes them bleed. (Kind of how Kevlar body armour is able to stop a bullet but you can easily plunge a knife through as if it were a normal shirt) Hanzo used technique and must have struck an artery or something.
For example, if you slice a human's fermoral artery on the leg, without medical attention, they're going DOWN.
Predators are super strong, but they're realistic and believable. The big charm about this alien is the fact that despite being an intergalactic badass, it has weaknesses.
Think of Predators as big cats. A lion can break a man's neck with a swipe of its paw just like a Predator can most likely do seeing as they shred us to bits... but even we can take on a lion if we act quick and get lucky. And how do we often take on lions? With traps and tools... and how did we defeat all the Predators so far? With tools and traps! I haven't found a scenario where a human punched the ever living green shit out of a Predator with his bare hands yet.
True. A very key thing about surviving a fight is breathing. As long as you are able to breathe properly and continuously, without inefficient movements, you should be able to have an advantage over somebody who is really muscle-bound. But one cannot deny the appeal of seeing a human in peak physical shape. Movies are still about suspension of belief, and the perception that Arnold in his prime would make a formidable opponent is very real.
I have a guy who looks just like Schwarzeneger in my fight class and it is obvious that he manages his breathing very well as he is just formidable to work against. I sometimes think he could work as a stunt double for Arnie because he even has a similar face. But in truth, I always find the small guys to be surprisingly tough. Firstly, they have a life-long over-compensation, and secondly, they can be very nimble..
You'll notice most MMA fighters and Boxers dont look like body builders a.k.a Arnold.
What HuDa said and as far as I remember Harrigan didn`t win. He was bested in one on one duel, yet Predator screwed the job being too cocky and overconfident.
It was said in the moving that they come here to hone their skills. It's like evolution, they train to become better killers. The Predator lost in a suicide attack. Who was better is rendered mute. Hanzo committed himself to an attack which purposely left him completely open. An over confident foe will always take the bait, and thus, it's a draw.
Also Harrigan wasn't a slouch. There was some mean shit going on way before the Predator showed up. However, if anything, the Predators Achilles heal is it's sheer arrogance. That or it's a macho thing.
But Harrigan wasn't fighting hand-to-hand. He had a Smart Disc. It doesn't really matter how beefy or scrawny you are if you're holding a machete.
And by my vision of Predators, they should know how to handle themselves in a sword fight better than a human.
This does harkin back to how Noland was blown away by Berserker(I think that was the one) on sight. He knew that Noland was too dangerous to be taken one on one. So he just blew him away and shrugged it off.
Based on what? As I said, he seems pretty skilled when he flanks and annihilates all those Colombians at the start of the film. The police were screwed until he showed up and turned the tables. And just because he isn't some enormous muscle-bound caricature like Arnie, that doesn't mean he isn't strong. I refer you to my earlier point regarding real-life special forces guys.
But Harrigan wins in a one-on-one fight, when he's neither strong, skilled or witty at all.
Though, to be fair, the Predator did apparently win and only get killed because Harrigan pretended he's down and used the moment to slice him, but that shouldn't have happened either.
Exactly the point.
Have you ever seen real-life special forces soldiers? The guys in the SAS don't look anything like Dutch, or even Royce. Physique has almost zero bearing on whether you're a badass or not.
I think you're getting Harrigan confused with Murtaugh, there
Not one-on-one. Not even Arnold was able to win one-on-one.
I also have a problem with that yakuza guy in Predators killing a Predator in a sword fight.
Muscles are sort of important because the stronger the man, the more he attracts the Predator (for hunt, you perverts).
It would be a bit insulting if any random scrawny guy defeated an alien who specializes in hunting dangerous life forms. It's insulting Danny Glover was able to defeat one. Hunting is what they do and you can't tell them not to quit their day job if they get killed by a nearly retired cop.
Almost everyone could have beaten up Glover in the movie, yet he defeats the monster, and it's not even on wit. It was a hand to hand combat. I don't care the Predator was shot several times and lost his arm, he still should have been able to kill him without a problem.
So I'd say muscles are important to portray that the human they're after is not an ordinary guy, but someone who's strong and able to fight.
As JungleHunter87 says, Danny Glover wasn't even slightly ripped in the second film. Brody was way bigger than him in Predators.
But muscles aren't important.
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Danny Glover wasn't exactly mister Olympia either. So... Is he also more suited to a villainous henchmen role?
When it comes down to it. Muscle was never the reason Dutch survived his encounter with the Predator. It was his ingenuity and knowledge of the Jungle Hunter's weakness that helped. Even then he got his ass kicked in a purely pyshical confrontation. So I don't think you need muscle heads to star in these movies.
I meant for the AvP's or Predators. I may be misremembering. I just recalled hearing he was meant to appear in one of the films he's well known being in for but his duties as governor got in the way. It might've been for Terminator 4.
The point of Arnold being in the film is "legitimacty". As I stated before. Arnold LOL'd at Rodriguez, wanting to "lead" a pack of Preds'. Campy, comic book fodder save that for a different realm of entertainment (books, comics, video games etc...).
Which is the entire point. Arnold would have never done AVP's and even LOL'd at Preds (the superior movie of the bunch) because he knew it was crap. Hence putting him in it, would still be crap (as pointed out).
Him holding out AND at this point in his career (money is in the bank, Star is on the map) he can be selective. So by virtue of him merely meeting with Shane Black (and I'm gonna say Black has a LEGIT non Comic-Book script ala the first pred) Arnold is already in the process of legitimizing this thing.
If Arnold agrees. You can count on a good Pred (finally) movie.
Especially if they'd given some of the character's earlier scenes to Adam Baldwin instead, then held Arnie back for the big reveal nearer the end. That would've been sweet.
But having Arnie in Predators or the AVP films wouldn't have magically made them great films, because the cast either wasn't the main problem, or there were too many other issues on top of that.
OK, admittedly they might have been better. But they still wouldn't have been good.
You can put a few grams of gold in shite, but you've still got mostly shite at the end of the day.
Yes, they probably would.
I am more and more leaning towards Arnold as a core element of the Predator franchise. Perhaps that was the missing element all this time? It's like doing a Terminator film focused on Cyberdyne, with no T-800 Arnold Terminator models.
I think a good angle would be if we see Arnold working for the CIA like Dylon was. Somebody asks him if he's been pushing too many pencils, and he finds himself getting back into the jungle.
Those films wouldn't have suddenly become better just because you put Arnie in them.