Two more set reports from Shane Black’s The Predator have surfaced. The first is a length interview with director Shane Black over on Collider. Black talks about collaborating with Fred Dekker to write the script for the film and him wanting to do an “old-school thriller” for The Predator.
So, we just tried to take the existing mythology and take it a step further. Ask some questions about why? Why do Predators do what they do? What would be the next step for them? How do we up the stakes so that there’s not just a single Predator hunting a group of soldiers? Who are the soldiers? How are they different? What’s the heroic quotient and how do you make it not just guys with tough talk and big arms? I mean, I always favor real characters with real actors in these movies. I’m happy to have someone like Jesse Ventura, he’s actually a fine actor as far as that goes. But the actors we tended to get for this are a cut above, I think, the average tough guy.
Shane Black also touches on the budget and says he has a big budget but not as big as say Iron Man 3’s $200M. He goes on to say that effects are going to be half digital and half practical effects, and A.D.I. duo Tom Woodruff and Alec Gillis are behind the Predator costume.
Olivia Munn, left, and Jacob Tremblay star in Twentieth Century Fox’s “The Predator.”
The next set report can be found on Bloody-Disgusting. This one goes through the main characters and tells us a little about them. Particularly, the veterans and how they’re thrown onto a bus where they meet Quinn McKenna. One of the actors says there’ll be connections to all the Predator films as well the Aliens vs Predator universe. Lastly, Bloody-Disgusting have another set report which covers a few new things such as the Predator Dogs and Predator Ship.
6’10” Bryan Prince and 6’9″ Kyle Strauts will be portraying the Predators. Shane Black wanted the Predator designs to adhere to the original but he wanted to modernize it for the film. One of the scenes, they witnessed being filmed was the young boy Rory (Jacob Tremblay) being chased by a Predator Dog. It was much taller than the actor and were similar to Pitbulls with some form of dreadlocks. The Dogs will be all digital creations. They give details on another part of the set showing the inside of the Predator ship where out main character explores.
The massive set represents the inside of the vessel, a looming structure of metal and a complex circuitry of cables and pipes. Interestingly, these additions share a similar design to that of the creature’s iconic dreadlocks. We were also promised that there may be other small easter eggs hidden within the ship’s design. While we stood and marveled at the massive structure looming before us, I noticed several production design boards right outside the set. They depicted an as-yet unbuilt “slide” that looks to usher one of our characters deep into the belly of the ship.
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A new set report. This one includes some stuff with Brian Prince about playing The Predator.
The Upgrade is not 4-legged so don't be afraid.
Here is a rough description of him:
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- does not have mask
- has armour-like hard skin (so he does not need armour)
- has humanish eyes
- has an ion canon on his gauntlet
- has a kind of projectile arrow weapon on his other gauntlet (I think this could be an updated Speargun)
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I like the Jurassic Park approach they take.
http://bloody-disgusting.com/news/3432561/set-visit-bleeds-can-kill-effects-design-predator/
I'm a little worried about it being more based on the Predators themselves than the Hounds from Predators. I'm really not keen on them overdoing the hybrid-thing.
Well we know this isn't strictly true. There's a mixture of both.
I have, regrettably
The leaked content is suggesting that this is ultimately not the role that one or some of the hounds will play, and it will be more like I described in my post
But your name is yautjapet, how can you not like the concept of predator dogs?!
Agreed.
I like to think it depends of the type of hunt that the predators are looking to have. If they don't want to stalk and want to flush out their prey, then they'll use the hounds like they would a weapon. Maybe they're something they use in times of war as well.
Spot on ! Couldn't agree more !
I thought it was funny as Hell. I still do, and I will neither apologize, nor will I be made to feel weird for it. It was funny.
Imagine watching Predators and thinking that was a "cool line"
Imagine thinking that's a cool line to reference in the forums.
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Have you read the script?
There are much worse things regarding the dogs...
Whether they end up being the same beasty or not, well. I actually hope they at least take some cues from the Predators hound designs.
We did however pretty much get confirmation on the plot, let's hope it delivers.
It's bitch raping time
I'm really leery about the idea of "predator dogs" in general. I just have a hard time seeing them using dogs (I'm talking classic pred, not superpreds) to aid them in their hunt, it feels like it would go against the idea of individual skill and self-sufficiency. I guess it's just not something I personally am interested in seeing, but that's just me.
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I'm nervous about this
[Set Visit] Shane Black on Taking the Franchise to New Places in 'The Predator'
another set visit from The Nerdist
https://nerdist.com/the-predator-shane-black-interview-set-visit/
" Thing is im more a fan of the creature than the film itself "
Also I think it's part of the reason why a lot of people being angry and negative to the fact that they are not a fan of the movie, but fan of the "Predator" himself. They don't care about characters, all they want is to see Slasher movie where Predator kills victims, another location, another group of people( I am generalizing a lot)
And I think it's a possible way to use a franchise(Predator 2 was a slasher to a degree), but also we can go different direction and actually get more polished and expended universe, or hell even get new classic, or a hit (If we will get lucky)
I agree especially about Shane Blacks interview. I love what he says about the characters and casting them.
Also if you really cared about predator , you would want this film to be successful even if you didn't like it ... why ? Because if this film bombs say goodbye to another predator film for the next 20 years if at all.
Now Disney are so close to owning predator , this film will either be seen an the revival of predator or the death of predator for years to come.. so when all you so called fans want it to fail , just remember your not just hurting the movie, you are hurting the brand as a whole. And that is far more damaging than what Shane black could ever do with one film.
That doesn't make it a bad movie IMO. I guess judgment on IM3 depends a lot on where you stand from, more of a comic lover or a cinema lover... I'm more of the latter, even though iron man is one of my 4 favourite comic book character ever
Anyway, can' wait to hear more about The Predator, more set visits reports and interviews, those we already got were really interesting.
I think The Predator will be far superior movie than both AVPs and Predators put together. Sure there are things in this new film I'm cautious about , but I'm not automatically going to not like it , before Iv actually seen the final product first.
Is not, it is entertainning and well made on the technical aspects but is not good, the main problem being that has NOTHING to do with anything Iron Man related, is just a random movie that happens to have Iron Man lore names pasted on it. One of the worst mcu movies, up there with Thor Ragnarok, specially in the "unrelated to the comic book" department. It gives me zero faith in regards to what Shane is doing with this movie.
And the weapon is the same dumb one as in both awful AVP movies (and game that also had avp movies stuff in it for some senseless reason) so it just gives me a bad feeling about the movie. That and the awful leaked script of course. That script and the previous movie i saw from the director leads me to believe this movie will be bad, the fact that they use a weapon from two bad movies instead of the classic weapon from a far more superior movie which is actually canon is the cherry on the cake that tells me my bad feelings are justified so far. In fact every new we get related to this movie makes it sound worse and worse, i think i will skip watch it on theaters.
Now, moving on:
"One of the actors says there'll be connections to all the Predator films as well the Aliens vs Predator universe."
"Predator dogs"
WTF, are they serious? Connection to the avp movies? So Shane is gonna turn them into canon? (Not really, the three Alien movies -Resurrection maybe- and two Predator movies are canon and nothing else)
Predator dogs?
This is really sounding like a random movie with Predators in it
This will always be my favourite franchise of all time , I would much rather go into a cinema seeing a brand new take on my favourite hunter and exploring their lore more , than seeing the same worn down formula again and again .
I agree with you azamultic the first film was very much a fluke , it just had the right team on board at the right time. Thing is im more a fan of the creature than the film itself , to me predator 2 is better than predator 1 because I love how it tried to build on the lore. Since predator 2 I haven't had a film that gives me any real deep satisfaction, and I believe The Predator will do exactly that for me. It wants to expand on the lore , it wants a much bigger scope and it's not going to please every predator fan , but to me Shane can be forgiven for trying something fresh. All this negativity is based on what exactly? They have seen a tiny trailer, and most haven't even read the script either , the way we have. So I think people are acting quite sheepish when they are putting this film down , because as it stands it's based on nothing .
well you might have enjoyed iron man 3 but i thought it was a average iron man movie.
id rather watch thor dark world over iron man 3.
Iron Man 3 was a great movie. And judging a movie because the baddy uses a certain weapon is lame.
a shame that the fan base isent so big with predator movies i bet it will earn it's money back but im sure that will be it.