Director Shane Black has given us a nice little update about the forthcoming Predator sequel. Collider caught up with the man at CinemaCon that is currently happening in Las Vegas. Black still states that he’s working the script but reiterates he wants to make the Predator movie a Summer movie – a movie that will have people queuing up to see.
When pressed about whether or not Arnold Schwarzenegger will reprise his role as Dutch, the director remained coy about the prospect. “I think it’s something we’re looking into, and as this thing evolves and takes on more of a shape, we’ll figure out how best to honor the tradition of what is really a remarkable first movie and even parts of the rest of them as well.” says Black.
The big news to come out of this interview is that Shane Black reveals that the Predator movie will take place present day! He stopped short of saying where but I still suspect it will be some remote part of Earth.
The Predator sequel takes place present day!
For history’s sake, John McTiernan’s Predator was set in 1987, Predator 2 was set in Summer 1997 and Predators was set in 2010. With the new Predator film due for release in 2018, that gives a time-jump of 31 years from the original.
How that will affect the story is anybody’s guess. With present day, that means a lot of my period pieces such as Vietnam and Pirates are out of the window. If Arnie signs on, I can still see the story revolving around an older, tired Dutch tracking down a Predator.
or blowing things up, usually we dont see that back on the screen.
the Predator and Nintendo's NX are two things that can only be done succesfully if you have full understanding for the concept etc.
and both of them are a big challenge for even the biggest directors and writers out there, so i have strongs doubts.
I don't want to get spoiled too much, even if the script would leak, i wouldn't read it, i want to have the experience in the Cinema, i mostly resisted Star Wars and Jurassic World Spoilers/leaks/inputs last year and trust me, it is really a much better experience when almost everything is a surprise, but knowing nothing at the Moment is pretty... well... shit.
The fact alone that Shane Black is involved in the script and directing it (plus maybe Arnold is in it) does this make an "event movie" for me personally.
Like really, is there any better Person out there for this? I Really don't think so, he's a cast member of the original and the writer of some really great cult Action movies plus a kick-ass director. FOX nailed it.
Thanks for sharing. I wonder what "pretty crazy shit" he has in mind.
- The process is moving forward (the train has left the station), but they are not rushing it and taking their time.
- He likes that his Iron Man Movie feels different than the rest and with Predator he wants to make it fresh and something special, they are also gonna do "some pretty crazy shit".
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Exactly!
I am super excited for this because of that, to see what it adds to the existing story.
Not saying it can't happen, it's just that it would seem cheap in my eyes. Maybe is it just me refusing the truth?
And the Japanes woman's name is Ms. Yutani right?
And then Arnold saves a little girl named Billie. Joking aside, that could work. Arnie goes in driven by revenge and then his maternal instinct kicks in and he grows to become someone else as he is trying to save the little girl...
Rambo: First Pred.
I'd actually be down with something along those lines though.
Reminds me of the old Superman cartoon made in the 1940's where the Man of Steel fought the Japanese and even Hitler made a cameo.
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Add some social commentary to the franchise and set it in the Middle East in the midst of the present-day ISIS/Syrian war. The Predator would land, observe that there is no peace the region and then take it upon himself to assassinate leaders of factions that hinder the peace process. Since they are all heavily guarded (and very wealthy) the Predator will face a unique challenge to reach each leader. Suicide Bombers, Improvised traps, mines, exotic animals...these will all need to be faced! The Americans and Russians canl make cameos too and for the showdown, the two nations would have to combine forces in the air and sea to defeat the predator. The ground soldiers would all be Arabs allied with the Russians and Americans and fight the predator on the ground. All will be united against one. common. enemy.
And once the Predator is destroyed, everyone will have peace amongst themselves and their neighbors.
I may be biased, but I really like my idea of how the story should go. Predator is hunting somewhere, killed a bunch of people before they captured him with the assistance of Dutch. Once captured, they start studying him, but eventually he breaks out, kills another bunch of soldiers in the facility he was captured in, escapes into the open and the military is after him.
The part where the Predator is captured and studied is a great opportunity to learn more about them.
What? That's ridiculous. A Predator movie can easily be set in the future without involving the Aliens, the colonial marines, androids or the Engineers. And so what if the CMs (and/or androids) were involved but not the Aliens? It'd just be like Dutch's team but with pulse rifles, smart guns and possibly androids. It might even be set on Earth, allowing us to see what it is like in the Alien universe's future without requiring an Alien outbreak to happen.
Also, doesn't the United Americas have its own army that is better equipped than the Colonial Marines? Why not have a Predator hunt on the futuristic Earth, hunting these better equipped soldiers?
Plus it'd show human advancements. Imagine this time we detect their ship enter the Sol system but it suddenly vanishes before we can do anything about it. Show how they are still a step ahead as soon as they realize they're busted.
Sadly that's one problem the Predator franchise has to suffer (or has suffered before): we can either go back or maintain our course in the current timeline.
A know lot of people were hoping for a film set either in the past or future, so its something people want to know.
like the jungle was back then.
A group of special forces in IS territory and the predator shows up LoL
I hope that Alan Silvestri will do the score as they have a huge budget now. I was happy with the score from predators for the most part because it used music from the old predator one film.
Ok time to go see hardcore henry and come home to watch all 3 predator films
Time setting of a Pred film is less important than place setting or story
I don't think it's so much surprised as a tiny bit disappointed. You're completely right, of course. As soon as it was announced that they'd been talking the odds of it being anything other than modern day were practically nill.
As soon as word got around in Arnolds involvement there was pretty much no room for anything else but it being in the present. Hell, even when he told it's going to be a Sequel in 2014 it was safe that this wasn't going to be in the past, but here we are, people are surprised anyway.
That's not bad. The bit about the conspiracy circuit.
Then one day, people begin coming up on crime scenes that are eerily familiar to the ones that Dutch described for the original Predator. Then, 50 cent shows up at his door one day with a fuzzy cell phone picture of what appears to be the Predator fleeing one of the crime scenes (he recognized Dutch from TV and tracked him down through linkedin). 50 Cent tells Dutch that he knows that the predator is real but that Dutch is the only man that would believe him. Together, they assemble a rag-tag team of washed-up mercenaries and the team is eventually contracted by the US government to get the new predator...in present-day Manhattan.
That's how I think this movie should go.
I'm being funny, that story probably would suck. It would be different.
Cause it seems like they dropped that idea at this point, right?
Now where's it going to be set, and what's the story? These things... I wanna know.
If I'm gonna get behind this movie, I gotta know these things. I've got a little hope riding on this.. Just a little bit of hope.
Only the EU seems to explore various eras.