One of the most publicised removed aspects of The Predator following the extensive third act reshoots was the complete removal of a sub-plot that involved two Emissary Predators who were actively working against the Upgrade Predator and his fellow clan members.
Kyle Strauts, one of the performers who wore that extra-terrestrial reptilian skin, has been sharing some pictures on his Instagram of his time on the set of The Predator as one of the Emmisary’s!
Titan’s The Predator: The Official Movie Special was recently released and that featured Alec Gillis and Tom Woodruff of Amalgamated Dynamics Inc. talking about designing the Emissary Predators and how they approached differentiating their design from the Fugitive Predator and from one another. You can check that out below:
We recently had the opportunity to chat to both Kyle Strauts and his fellow Predator performer Brian Prince for the AvP Galaxy Podcast so be sure to keep checking back in for when we release that episode! You can keep track of all the various behind-the-scenes images and information with us on the Alien vs. Predator Galaxy forums!
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I can definitely see this upgrade clan not supporting individuality / individualists for sure. The same type of clan that would have a fugitive. The same type of clan that would invade a planet, and kill other than for sport.
I found the Pred outfits in general to be lacking that certain 80s retrograde/tribal influence.
However, often with movies that endured heavy narrative changing reshoots, the changes are never acknowledged / included in the supplementals of its initial breakout home video release
Still, fingers crossed.
I'd rationalised it as they've just been here that long. Their own clothing, equipment, whatever, was damaged in previous engagements or just over time and so they just made do with local substitutes.
I genuinely dislike the multi camo suit. Makes them too human.
All he needs now is the game on and a cold beer!
Now seriously, the one from neca looks cool, stupid, but cool
Wrong pictures
I agree that scene in jw is great, the movie is not perfect but has good moments
Actually they should pull a Jurassic World, that scene when Blue came back to save Roberta was actually f**kin intense that the whole audience got up and cheered. That shit would be cool!
Well, that looks interesting.
You dont have to beg, but we can differ. I purposefully avoided all the leaked stuff before the film came out and seeing it now i felt it could have been a great opportunity.
But i can understand why some people didnt
They didn't explicitly die in the filmed footage. They were both knocked from the APC when they were trying to use their cable weapons and the Upgrade uses a net weapon to catch the cable and send them flying. Their fate is left open ended.
I think the emissaries could have been a decent addition to the movie, it's just the way they were taken out was so underwhelming. We get that the Upgrade is strong - but for them to be wiped so quickly and after saying something along the lines of, "yeah - there may be no hope after all" is just... wasteful of their potential
I beg to differ
I'm not sure if that kept over to the filmed stuff (I'm going to ask Kyle/Brian actually) but damn, none of the films have really brought that Predator on Predator action on screen in a genuinely exciting fashion. I'd love to see a proper drawn out and exciting sequence.
Plus I don't get how people got upset with the military fatigues. Why is it in media that humans can adopt alien stuff but the reverse is forbidden? Sure Pred tech is better by far but as it shows, its not replaced entirely. They still got the shurikens, plasmacasters, wristblades, and cloaking tech for example. Hell, Fugitive made good use of our low tier guns during his escape.
Can't believe some people actually get paid to write such bad scripts, the lines that were used, such cringe garbage. Easy money right there.