We’ve known for a while now that Titan books would be releasing a novelization and a prequel novel for The Predator. Aside from information that the prequel, titled The Predator: Hunters and Hunted, would be introducing specific concepts that would tie into the film we knew very little about the actual plot.
Thanks to a recent product update over at Amazon, we’ve got our first look at what’s in store for us with The Predator: Hunters and Hunted!
For centuries Earth has been visited by warlike creatures that stalk mankind’s finest warriors. Their goals unknown, these deadly hunters kill their prey and depart as invisibly as they arrived, leaving no trace other than a trail of bodies.
When Roger Elliott faced such a creature during the Vietnam War, he didn’t expect to survive. Nor did he expect that, decades later, he would train the Reavers, a clandestine strike force attached to Project Stargazer. Their mission: to capture one of the creatures, thus proving its existence, disassembling its tech, and balancing the odds between the HUNTERS AND HUNTED.
Project Stargazer is the governmental agency that Sterling K. Brown and Jake Busey’s characters work for, both of whom we’ve seen in the teaser trailer and recently released TV spot!
The Predator: Hunters and Hunted is written by James Moore (who also wrote Alien: Sea of Sorrows for Titan) and is due for release on the 31st of July. You can pre-order from Amazon (US/UK) and other good book retailers now. Thanks to felix for the heads-up!
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That was my interpretation of the Arcturians as well, the information that the Rage War novels gave us (which wasn't really much to be honest.)
One of the best parts of Briggs script is that he emphasizes their contradictory nature. "They look like bushmen decked out in sophisticated hunting equipment." And the like.
The whole Arcturian's are aliens thing is actually rather sickening when you understand Camereon's intent with the line. Like was stated previously he was drawing Vietnam Parallels there.
IE, this was basically like that one scene in Full Metal Jacket where Joker tells his buddy Rafterman "Half these gook whores are servicing the Vietcong, the other half have TB. So make sure you only f**k the ones that cough."
IE: The Arcturian colony is full of sub-human trash, and it doesn't matter if they're transexuals, dudes, or chicks. Maybe it's like space Chicago or something...
Indeed, the only way the Predator works in regards to AVP or being tonally consistent with ALIEN is as they are portrayed in Monolith's AVP, to me- insular, sparse, ancient, ritualistic, lost but never close to something you can understand.
Even if Rykov perceived Prince's hunt on him as a matter of vengeance we should never know.
The Predator should be the mysterious outlier, as contradictory in character as his technology and primitive culture is.
Yes, I'd actually like to see the idea incorporated more in the Predator side of things (this is a Predator related thread.) I thought it was great seeing the other species in Predators - I can imagine that some of the creatures they brought to the planet were sapient/sentient to some degree.
Sorry but no- sentient life that doesn't want to kill us doesn't belong in Alien.
AWFUL choice to infer they are an Alien species.
It's as bad for the lore as giving the Predalien dreadlocks is as a design decision.
You want to dump AVP into a garbage pile lower than AVPR, that's how you do it- start cramming the universe full of human-likes.
The "Arcturians" should simply be a human colony with a high percentage of intersex people on a planet orbiting Arcturus.
Turning them into Asari doesn't fit the lonely universe Alien presents and I believe the actual intention of the line in Aliens is more a suggestion of a further parallel in James Cameron's Vietnam allegory; where treating another race as subhuman because they were different, was either not acknowledged as heinous or perhaps even encouraged by military superiors.
Not because they were literal Aliens, that seems so banal to infer that in expanded media.
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Can't wait to read the review. Is there any specific mention of Dutch and Harrigan in the p1 and 2 references? Or is it merely combat tactics and biological information?
Cover art for Predator: Hunters 2
Very very briefly, unfortunately.
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The Predator was brutal. He took a f**king beating and he gave a f**king beating. I did have one fan/lore complaint with him though. Some pretty cool imagery. While I enjoyed the Reapers, would have enjoyed some more time with the movie characters, Keyes in particular.
All in all a good book. Should get us all in the mood for The Predator quite nicely.
Awesome
Perks of the job!!!
Next episode actually.
Advanced copy. Release is the end of the month.
Excellent. I'm looking forward to reading your thoughts.
Are you going to be doing a podcast regarding the latest The Predator trailer any time soon ?
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https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=uidjDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=predator+hunters&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwin_aKZjZ3cAhXUbX0KHX9eAdQQ6AEINDAC#v=onepage&q=predator%20hunters&f=false
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I was actually a little disappointed they didn't follow on with the OWLF organisation but that's a through-line for The Predator movie rather than just this book.
End of next month, yeh?
Primarily for retrieving/analysing crashed Soviet and Chinese hardware from space, but their remit would obviously cross over into handling ET technology, should any be located
http://mysteriousuniverse.org/2017/01/ufos-and-project-moon-dust/
Hope Titan Books gives us another Omnibus (South China Sea and Turnabout would be nice).