In a new interview on Shadow Nation with Shaun Burris and Nathan Schoonover, The Predator’s Thomas Jane spoke a little about his time working on The Predator. The juiciest piece of information comes in the form of some backstory about his character and some early setup for the film. Beware spoilers:
“We play these veterans from like Afghanistan, Iraq war or whatever. But we’re all fucking crazy so we go to the VA hospital to get our meds. We’re all like shellshocked, PTSD… soldiers. We’re at the VA hospital and we’re in group therapy and of course, somebody flips out…this is backstory, I don’t think we really see this…somebody flips out and we all get arrested and get thrown onto the bus to go down to the hospital and they throw this other guy on the bus too.
And he’s a guy they’ve actually marked to kill him because he’s seen a UFO, he’s seen the Predator ships come down so they lock him up and throw him in with us lunatics. They’re going to take that bus, drive it down to a ditch and shoot us all just to get rid of this one guy. But, of course, we take the bus over and we’re all like “fuck that man, let’s go kill these fucking Predators ourselves” and we’re just crazy enough to believe that this guy really did see a UFO and there’s these aliens out there. So that’s kinda cool!”
Jane starts to talk The Predator at around the 45 minute mark. We don’t know which exact character Jane is playing but we know he’s one of the group of characters collectively referred to in the script as The Loonies. The character Jane refers to being thrown on the bus with the others is none other than Boyd Holbrook’s McKenna.
Thomas Jane on the set of The Predator with fellow cast members.
Jane also talked a little about the overall experience of working on The Predator and his impression of the film:
“I can just say I had a blast. We had a great cast, with this terrific ensemble with all these great actors. And Shane Black, he wrote and directed it so it has that kind of Shane Black humor. We had a blast. It was funny. You know the Predators, they looked…you know they didn’t fuck those up. They’re still Predators and they’re pretty much the same Predator as always. I think it might be great. I tell you the acting is going to be pretty good…I’m going to be good in it!”
We’re still some months off the promotion machine kicking in for The Predator. Shane Black was recently asked about when we could expect a trailer. The director and writer told his Twitter followers that it wouldn’t be coming until January time.
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and one of the all time best monster designs ever put on film.
Dont gimme any of this "He Used to be scary!" nonsense.
It was only scary because some of you saw it when you were kids.
It was "scary" due to bad parenting.
Predator affected me a lot more than Aliens did when I was a nipper.
To be fair, we can say that they had some fear elements, but i agree that it's not classical scary movies yes.
Predator was never a scary franchise.
But this Predator movie looks just absolutely horrible. Like something for moms and kids to have a "spooky night" with a hot tub of popcorn.
Me and my friend as kids watched the first 2 Predators, and what them so scary was they hunted you. They hunted people like people would hunt a deer or wolf. They used hunting tricks, bait, different weapons, camo, all that. And they were more advanced, they were superior hunting experts who were religious and had a strong, deep culture that made them feel like so much more.
Predator should be where the hunting tricks get amped up even further. Have "human decoys" that don't look fake till you walk up on them. That's horrifying. Have scents and sounds like a warm camp fire or something relaxing wafting through the air to get you to come to it, only for you to be staring at a tree with a sound and scent box. Maybe go to drink out of your canteen and get hooked in the mouth, or something. Something truly horrifying like that episode of Rocko's Modern Life when the fish were hunting the fishermen. It was kind of funny, but really frightening.
Let there be maybe 4 or 5 of them. They said the original Predator was based on South American head hunters and tribal masks. Why not expand on that? Do away completely with that stupid, cringey stuff and give them much more tribal looking masks. Let them be more spiritual and superstitious rather than "bad ass samurai celt" shit. Let us see more of them as a spiritual, foreign, and complicated peoples who still see us as just deer to hunt. It's horrifying and exciting at the same time. Base them more on Australian Aborigines and South American Indians rather than "fad of the year". Let them have a female predator with them (according to comics, they were twice as big as the males) but she's sort of a "grandmother", or holy shaman woman, who gives spiritual whatever while they hunt.
Thats a story. Not this...suburban 13 year old power fantasy fan-fic.
So you want more beefcake.
I think you judge this movie too harshly before viewing
Everyone here i am sure has a idea they think is better then what we get to see.
But get over it because untill this is panned and flops
We should be glad this is happening at all with this range of talent working on it
You sound unhappy with more then just this script
Perhaps take a look in the mirror and get some therapy
I think they will use most of what we know now, but for me it depends greatly on the execution. All evidence (the actors, locations photos) points toward the fact that this script is going to be what we will have on screen, maybe with some changes though, but i think the core of the story will not be massively changed.
I don't remember precisely of a scene where we have a predator stalking people in the old fashioned way in a suburb.I mean clearly HUNTING people the way we are used to see them do. It was more action sequences happening in this location, IIRC.
I grew up in the 80's and i am fine with this even if it is not an ideal idea
I can think of two movies i liked growing up with kids doing just this.
It is only a small part of the plot from what i gather ?
And it is not as dumb as a predator making out with lex at the end of avp and i have sat through that hunk of junk more times than i like to think
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Also a kid who bullys an autistic and gets his head blown off sounds awesome
A predator ia a suburb would come off like a slasher film in a way i think. And could be very creepy to think of a predator stalking or sneaking in a home if for only a portion of the films location.
All comes down to how you film it and what you show or how you show it
I think it's gonna be a hit
Lot can change to a script from one draft to the next..those fillers might have been just for the early scripts.
And not set in stone plot points. .?
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an early draft, though.
No, it's pretty much in line with what's in the script.
I haven't read the script but has anything Jane said deviated from the script?
I'm well aware.
Female predators with big booobies, that kind of thing.
Ideas based on the script or Thomas Jane's interview?
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This is going to be like Halloween H20 with the all star cast . .....hopefully not as forgettable.
Can say that about any idea presented especially if you have poor vision of the execution.
Some of them have been adapted into the movies like bad blood predators.