Ahead of the upcoming panel at San Diego Comic Con, Entertainment Weekly have released a new interview with director and co-write Shane Black. Early on in the interview Black is asked about the film’s new Upgrade/Ultimate Predator and what went into settling on the new design.
If the predator was to be an amalgam of, not just an ordinary predator, but also a collection of traits garnered from the various most powerful species that they’ve hunted, then you basically would have one that is stronger, faster, and smarter. We finally got an image that we liked, which captures this very canny, very cunning, and effortlessly powerful, savage predator. One of the only quibbles that I’ve had with some of the past predators is that, if you’re not careful, it can look like a guy in a football suit; big, bulky guy just stomping around. I wanted a certain more graceful, more light, more athletic quality, literally like a predator. If you watch a cheetah, it’s not clunky.
While we have seen the Upgrade/Ultimate Predator in the trailer, aside from throwing the Fugitive Predator, we haven’t seen much of him in motion just yet.
Shane Black also talks about the cast, some of the set-up around the Stargazer Project and he re-affirms how the film ended up being more difficult than he originally anticipated. He is also asked whether The Predator leaves room open for a possible fifth film.
I think it’s part of the task to always leave room, just like leaving room for dessert. But at the same time, unless you very firmly have in mind your pre-planned and pre-structured trilogy or sequel, it’s important to focus on the movie at hand and not get lost, like day one of a movie and you’re already planning the wrap party. It’s important that we get this one right. But of course we would leave room for continuing this, because as I mentioned, the Predator seems to have this uncanny longevity in the zeitgeist that people like new iterations of it, they like the hunting aspect of it, they break down every aspect of whatever costume he’s wearing this time and make toys of it. It’s strange, but it’s so longstanding and won’t go away.
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Gotta love that word
Think Sil from species. XENO BEWWWWWWBBBSSSSSUHHHH...
Yeah, sans the alien hair, they really are almost entirely reptilian.
Do I dare ask what xenorbs are?
Indeed so. But do they have that Ridley Scott seal of approval? I think not.
I'll see em' when they're canon.
With neomorphs running amuck and shane black making predator films, what's wrong with some Xenorbs and Proobies?
Well, I ask ya?
Uh no, the "its an alien, so like it can be whatever" argument is just juvenile reasoning at best. Caused by a lack of understanding of how biology works and the difference between a human aka homo sapiens, and a humanoid which is just a form. The predator has a humanoid form with almost entirely reptilian and amphibian physical traits. There is nothing mammalian about it.
Actually, in the script
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Yeah no need for technology, that's probably why he has two wrists gauntlets...
Wou wou, Boyd Holbrook is 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m), when Brian A Prince is 6' 9½" (2.07 m) they have pretty big difference in height.
-So, like a xenomorph. Got it.
Eye balling it, they are roughly the same height. The pred mask gives the actor about an extra 6 or so inches in height. But with movie magic, it'll probably appear 1ft taller than the actor, maybe a bit more.
Maybe that's how he'll skin them. Or skull taking. He could just use it like an old bottle opener
How bout farting poisonous gas?
I'm seeing a strong division between graceful cheetah Predator and prehistoric caveman Predator - I'll just have to take his word for it and wait for the movie, but I honestly don't see how what we are seeing and what he is describing will be encompassed in the same creature. Movie magic perhaps
The fire breathing has already been done. It's time for making use, of the other end.
Hahahahha It's going to be like in Shane's Iron Man 3 scene "You breathe fire....ok"
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Exactly what i was thinking... Maybe they have a few squads of 2-3 people that relays one after another to post here
Forward is merely a direction. It can result in either a negative or a positive outcome. Neither one is guaranteed. Maybe the movie will be good. Maybe it will suck. Who knows for sure? We all will, once it's released. But it's been made, it's done, I've made my peace with it. I'm moving forward, one might say.
And when did we "all" say Shane is going to do that?
These guest posts sound an awful lot alike. Same person perhaps?
Yehh, I am being safe in case some people would take it as a personal attack
I totally agree that that practical effects and it's limitations totally adding charm to the movie and creature, and I am still a sucker for Practical Effects and wished that it would be used more. But CGI does help in creating more agile movement compare to the practical stuff, and it's what I feel Shane Black was talking about
PS: the debate about what looks more believable is another topic.
It's true, you don't have to justify yourself don't worry
He does take some time when throwing punches to Dutch indeed, but i feel that's part of the charm of the creature too, in some way.
To be honest, even with amazing performance from Kevin Peter Hall, he still looked pretty bulky and heavy, in every hand to hand combat he felt very heavy and slow, remembering the Mike Harrigan fight on the ship, or with the Dutch at the end of the first movie. He did good, I mean he is the best predator and I love Jungle hunter and city hunter, but in this scenes without editing you can see that he struggles to move very fast in predator suite. I am not shitting on the classics btw
Translation:
These Pred fans are nuts!! So nuts I had to drop my Twitter account!!!
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"Sorry, unrelated, but will Thomas Jane have an important role or will he die quickly ? Because we almost don't see him at all in the trailers."
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I think he's the dude hanging upside down in the forest scene during the trailer.
He's the only one wearing a red shirt so that's my guess. Unless that's one of the death scenes they re-shot so it might not go that way in the final cut, even though the dudes already dead in the shot.
As a side note, i wonder how much he weighs though ? A classic pred is said in various documents from the extended universe to weigh in at 520 pounds at least, which seem reasonable when you look at them. For the upgrade, it will probably reach 900 or more... I mean, tigers can reach 690 pounds and still move really fast...
In defence of people not seeing this huge predator to be elegant, is simple, the basic design language, if you want to make a tank, he going to have huge chest, traps, biceps, legs, he will be very heavy and moving very heavy, if you want to make a agile elf, who moves very elegant you making him slender, light. That's simple design rules. The Upgrade does look more tanky then agile type. But then again you can break every rule if you know how to manipulate them, so I totally don't have no problems with a huge tank looking creature moving elegantly like a an elf
But also I want to point out that the Upgrade doesn't look like he took too much steroids, I mean the proportions of his body to his height looks pretty good, I mean he looks like just somebody took Jungle, City hunter, and just up-scaled them. And added a little bit more muscles on arms. Yes his torso has more developed muscles then Jungle/City Hunter, but it's nowhere near as Powerlifters from AVP 2004.
I actually noticed that Upgraded doesn't have a very huge chest, or abs muscles, the only thing is really huge is his arms, and I guess legs, but we didn't see it yet, but his torso looks pretty athletic nod roided up, not counting that he is 10 feet tall. And I think he is like a lion(not cheetah), huge lion, and Lions are freaking buff, but they can look elegant too.
But I just find it very ironic when he mentions them, wanting to go for a cheetah and ending up with a roided out predator 1.5x the size and thinking it will be scarier than the original. It just cements that you didn't get the creature at it's core at all. And I say this not having read the script so I might be surprised and I hope I am. But I'm afraid I won't be.
felt* sorry for my grammar, not a native speaker.
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