Shane Black hints at possible detective story for The Predator. Speaking to Movies.com, Shane Black teased a possible direction for The Predator. Shane Black is a man that is known for his work in the “buddy-cop” genre, films that are often focused around some sort of mystery that his characters have to solve. Talking to Movies.com about his fondness for detective stories, Shane Black told them:
“I could make detective stories for the rest of my life. In fact, even if I’m doing a story about an eight-and-a-half-foot tall monster called the Predator, there’s going to be a detective story probably somewhere inside it.”
Shane Black hints at possible detective story for The Predator.
Whilst not speaking with certainty, it’s a possible indication of the direction that Shane Black will be taking The Predator. It could be said that Predator 2 was somewhat of a detective movie, focusing on police officer Harrigan (playing by Danny Glover who also starred in Lethal Weapon, a buddy cop movie that helped put Shane Black’s name out there) trying to figure out who the new player was in the drug war that was ravaging Los Angles. Thanks to Darkoo for the news!
In related news, Empire hosted an early showing of The Nice Guys with a Q&A with Shane Black and Joel Silver after where Shane Black revealed the name of the main character in The Predator: “The hero of the film, the name I’ve given the guy, is Quinn McKenna.” Alien vs. Predator Galaxy member HuDaFuK was in attendance at the Q&A and he shared that Shane Black had also implied that the film would have a considerably longer runtime than the typical 90 minutes.
Update 31/05/2016: Talking to Den of Geek, Shane Black spoke a little more about the style of The Predator and how effective the genre shift in Predator was, hinting at a possible tonal shift in The Predator:
“I think the tone shifting is important. This one is going to be very scary if I get it right, and hopefully also there’ll be some humour in it. The first one had humour in it, so you really got engaged with this group of guys […] We’ll cast very carefully. We’ll get a group of people against the monster that I think you’re gonna enjoy spending time with.
The sensibility will be part noir, part mystery and part Close Encounters. The feeling I loved about Close Encounters was, you had this ordinary guy, Roy Neary, to whom this is all new. I think the danger of a Predator sequel is that it’s not new to anybody anymore. ‘Oh, look honey – another Predator. Yeah, we had one of those last year. Gagh, is he in the barn again? Oh God, he’s had the sheep.’ You know? That’s the danger. That it’s too familiar – we have to find a way to make him mysterious again.”
I've got a Murphy in the april 85' draft.
In the early predator draft there are more people in the team,one of them was had Irish ,i will check the names sunday
Imagine cops and drug lords teaming up in an urban environment to battle a Predator. Now that would a light show!!
Predator arguably has elements of a detective story in it, trying to work out what this thing is and how to stop it.
You guys probably all have seen this making of Predator,
but damn that was some real testosteron back then.
Talking about character, just awesome!!!
Predator and Predator 2 were both about a Predator invasion. Shane specifically said it's NOT about a bunch of Predators. And the detective thing was probably a joke.
The detective angle...I'm not sure how to take that at the minute. Like we said earlier, Predator 2 took that kind of angle but it could mean anything.
That might work. But just as a stepping stone. Once the characters become aware of the basics, the rest of the story should cruise in on that.
I felt like that's what 'Predator 2' attempted to do, but got too wrapped up in the police investigation side of it, which was pretty much wasted on the intended viewers.
Could be.after all according To her the preds ca me back To kill villagers several times,the character could go back
There To hunt em back.jungle would be redundant tho
Would be quite a twist if all the action of the film was due to the meddling of some shadow with a personal agenda. Turns out it's Dutch taking revenge on the US military using a Predator and luring it to the base where General Phillips is. Or the office building where they made Dillon push too many pencils. Either way, win.
You think the Predator is going to be a scapegoat for the whole damn machine? Shieeeeeet.
https://youtu.be/LCfk9HyYJSE?t=11
Who says the mystery will have anything to do with the Predator's identity?
The detective part could be working out some mystery involving the Predator.
If it's a background character who's been piecing parts of the puzzle together behind the scenes, who's met later on, that would be better. But we don't need a who-done-it in a story where the audience already knows exactly who/what is behind all the killings.
I know, it's not exactly what was meant, but I couldn't help it (and truth be told, I wouldn't mind a CSI-styled Predator story).
Anyway, This could be interesting, if done right.
I'd like that.
This is barely alarming because the context Shane says it in sounds of no certainty. It also sounds like he will not give it much profundity within the general plot.
Still maintaining my distance. Once burned, twice shy... Nothing bad to say though!