Update 29/10/2016 – According to the latest Directors Guild of Canada – British Columbia Production List, The Predator will now be filming from Feb 20 2017 to May 15 2017. Thanks to Darkoo for the heads-up.
We last heard a few months back that The Predator was due to start filming from October 2016 to February 2017 and unfortunately that hasn’t happened. In a new interview on Collider, director Shane Black confirms that filming will commence on the new Predator movie in February 2017 in Vancouver, Canada. They are due to begin heavy pre-production very soon so I imagine Amalgamated Dynamics will be getting to work on crafting the new Predator costume(s).
“Right now we’re looking at probably beginning to mid February. I’m heading up to Vancouver in a week or two to go into a serious pre-production, so we’re on the cusp.”
Shane Black goes on to say that the Predator sequel will be scary, funny and wondrous. We know very little about the characters so far but he says there will be similarities to the cast of the original Predator but a couple of factors will make it slightly different. We recently heard that Benicio Del Toro dropped out of The Predator and was replaced by Boyd Holbrook. The rapper 50 Cent is another person who has supposedly signed on to star in the film.
The Predator Begins Filming in February 2017!
Shane Black also touched upon the rating given the success of Deadpool and the upcoming Logan movie being R-Rated too. Black says The Predator should be R-Rated and 20th Century Fox understand that fans don’t want to see a watered down PG13 version.
“Fox has been very cooperative. I mean part of it is the success they had with Deadpool, but I also made a case—and I think they agreed—that fans of the Predator generally, probably aren’t looking to go to see a PG-13-rated version of it. It would be more of a letdown if it was sort of tailored to a family friendly audience than if it were allowed to play out to the same scale and level that the first R-rated one did.”
The Predator is still slated to hit cinemas February 9, 2018.
I think that scene deserves some credit, she did what she does best.
50 cent won't be main focus of the film either. Seriously we survived Thoper Grace in Ps and even he didn't broke it.
The fact that he is rapper is irrelevant.he is a bad actor.so bad he bought one of his roles.
Probably because she barely did anything.
You know.. the male pornstar and the wrestler that acted in the first Predator movie
didnt really "decrease" the quality of the film.
But i'm sure a rapper will destroy the credibility of a brand new predator film! Cant trust them rappers!
Hopefully it won't be the "Alien 3" of the series.
casting etc , 2018 is the estimated Theatrical release , .
from Feb 20 2017 to May 15 2017
https://www.dgc.ca/assets/Uploads/BritishColumbia/AvailsProductionLists/Documents/Production-List.pdf
You can twist the words , it doesn't change the fact this guy will decrease the quality of the movie.
It's going to be such a "painful" wait haha, I'm hoping Dark Horse will be dishing out a whole host of tie-in material like they have been with the Fire & Stone/ Life & Death stuff... maybe a few more novels too! :-D
So yeah, The Predator is filming in February of 2017 and we're all excited I think!
So Destroy All Monster 2 then?
As long as it's fun, entertaining and good looking, i'm ok with it not being credible.
So impressed.
He wouldn't be credible as a tough guy, he wouldn't be credible as a dead corpse lying on the floor.
Plus, whether you like him or not, he's got a huge fanbase behind him, making it totally understandable to be an option with them wanting to "beef up the supporting cast".
Except 50 cents being considered and meeting Shane once, so far it's allright.
Nothing confirmed, no. Just comments from a fairly reputable source. Aside from Holbrook and del Toro, I don't think Black ever spoke about the cast.
Oh and Fred Dekker confirmed Curtis Jackson was being considered for a role.
Only Hollywood has the means to stop this rampage, with the A-List Destroyer that will pump out all the best and most well known names for this movie. It will pacify the creature and convince it to go back into the ocean and enjoy The Predator in peace and quiet for the next century or so.
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Grain of salt like always but: apparently it was a hard sell for these actors. And the property is not seen as cool. And it was shocking they even got that far with del Toro.
Is there a chance the actors rumored to have been offered the role were never approached to begin with? I'm not familiar with the reliability of some of these scoops so excuse me if I'm missing something.
"Ohhhh! Oh my! I might get a disease if I work on a Predator movie! Hollywood might point and laugh at me and I'll be blacklisted oh God! Oh this is awful. Ohhhh I'm gonna ever so faint. Sign me up for War Dogs and The Accountant but please, no, not the dreadlocked alien movie. Anyyyyything but the dreadlocked alien movie! Oh my fragile heart."
True. true. It's certainly a possibility. Seems like an odd lie though. I mean, we obviously know he's working on it and they're casting.
He could just be lying (benevolently.) For example, Mark Frost said quite sincerely in interviews throughout 2012-2014 that he had never spoken to David Lynch about doing any new Twin Peaks, and when the new series was actually announced it turned out they'd been planning it since 2011. Sometimes you just have to lie outright to protect whatever's going on behind the scenes, or to avoid disappointing some people if things don't pan out.
and the gore he can add.
I have more fate in this now or is it faith?
Good news all around then. Shane casts very carefully and with them pushing the filming back to feb., Holbrook doesn't look like a last minute solution anymore, he really seems to think he's a great choice for this.
I find that comment a little surprising too. I do have to wonder what else has been going on because according to the interview with Collider they haven't officially even entered pre-production yet. Can't help but wonder what he's been doing or wonder if ADI have been working on the film unofficially in prep?
Another update re: the cast -
http://www.cinemablend.com/news/1577960/how-shane-blacks-the-predator-is-adjusting-to-life-without-benicio-del-toro
He's the main ingredient, and the movie could be full of nobodies and it'd still be amazing. An A-lister though, for some of us, is just the very nice cherry on top.
Shane Black's inclusion is immensely validating for Predator fans, as he's an A-list filmmaker that sees the potential the franchise has AND is willing to step up to the plate to do something about it. Most Predator fans have been conditioned to thinking a Predator movie is MERELY a small, simple movie about 8 people getting knocked off one by one. That's not okay.
It'd just be nice if we had that sort of validation with A-list talent in FRONT of the camera, too. Downey Jr., Paltrow, Crowe, Gosling, all these people trusted Shane Black. It'd just be nice if that sort of caliber of person trusted him when it just so happens to be Predator Part Six.
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At least with Boyd (if he does a good job) there is the likelihood he'd commit to the franchise and not have a packed schedule like Johnson with his Jumanji nonsense.
It's a gamble but Boyd had better be great in Logan if he wants his name to carry more weight by 2018.