Constantine Sekeris, one of the many talented artists who worked on The Predator, recently shared some cool concept art of the work he did on the Upgrade Predator!
“I came in kinda late on this project to help with some ideas and concepts the director Shane Black and my good friend Production Designer Martin Whist had for the upgrade evolved Predator. With this concept they wanted to stay close to the original design; keeping him thin and tall but then his skin solidifies when in protective battle mode and becomes like armor, hence no exterior armor. This version I’m sharing is one of a few designs explored. He was originally supposed to start out in his pale color texture and then change colors and textures to harden his skin as protective battle armor.”
“He [Martin Whist] had mentioned to try a Black Widow Spider shinny black with red striping.”
Another artist who worked on The Predator, Shane Baxley, also recently shared some designs he worked on for the Upgrade Predator.
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This right here. He gets it, everything after predator 2 has been a design disaster. Especially the iron-man Pred design we just got. There is zero imagination in it. Just an amalgamation of marvel and video game crap that someone adores. No consideration for what came before and what's been established in the true canon of the first two
films.
I think it make sense if they function like an automobile backglass, rear-windshield/windscreen defroster/defogger, where the netting is made of resistive conductors and when power is applied, the conductors heat up.
It's funny how most descriptions of the Predator fishnets describe it as being used for warmth. Not that I doubt that's their intended purpose, but seriously, how much "warmth" can those things add? There are giant holes all over the place!
Blasphemy !
Right on.
My sentiments exactly.
The one thing I love about Predators is their tribal ascetic and that their bleeding edge technology incorporates an ancient design which does not emulate the human equivalent of high-tech i.e. smooth and shiny metalic surfaces.
That's why I prefer the Predator ship interior in "Predator 2" and thoroughly reject the ship used in AvP.
Predators are not certainly about being good looking or trendy, and so a space suit doesn't work in my mind.
Neither we've ever seen a predator wearing one. From my point of view it would not add anything good to him apart criticism. Does they even need it in a..what..5th film?
The focus must be his lust for blood, the restless hunting of his pray (and playing with her), his ruthelsness. Make predator scary again!
A bunch of guys trying to outjoke each other with some predator on steroids running around is not what people desires. Well..sorry for going OT but I had to say it, again.
But the rest of that armour is just so generic. I know the guy was on a time limit but it looks straight out of every sci-fi soldier game in the last 20 years.
https://cdna.artstation.com/p/assets/images/images/014/010/572/large/constantine-sekeris-predator-1-space-suit-01a.jpg?1542068693
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/VdgXDN
This interview with one of the editors provides some insight into the studio using an utterly flawed test screening process to dictate the creative direction of the movie.
Cool pic!
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Yeah,make sense
I think Hicks is talking about the deleted scenes of the Emmissaries on the APC
Thanks,not doubting though I'm not a military expert,but it doesn't look like M249?
https://www.avpgalaxy.net/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.toyark.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2Fsites%2F4%2F2018%2F10%2FPrime-1-Fugitive-Predator-Statue-019.jpg&hash=637c8702ea42eabfb47b26f732ff352f
I haven't read it yet.
Predators hunting in Vietnam
Predators hunting ancient warriors in Egypt
Predators hunting pirates (P2 flintlock)
Even with Stargazer i think there are really cool ways to tell a new story without the Predator killer, more focused on an actual team capturing a Predator by surprise during a hunt... with them getting to the Predator spaceship, which then flies back home, there they have to face and fight different Alien species with the last survivor and biggest warrior being worthy enough to fight against an elder Predator.
The core story is always a hunt, and with that there are endless possibilities for really good movies, even on a smaller scale action/horror.
That's a fair assessment. "The Predator" seems to contain a culmination of parallels with both "Alien 3" and "Alien Resurrection". Plus, the Upgrade Predator can certainly be compared to the Newborn Alien on a species blending angle, as well as its mutual reception i.e. the ruffling feathers of fans.
It's a paradox I tell you. It just covered 2 movies in one. What on earth could come next?
Straight to a Prometheus Predator perhaps? An exploration of a long dead Predator Homeworld?
lol Thanks for proving my point.
Grow a sense of humor
Thomas Jane doing the ultimate Javier Bardem impression.
I know, I know.
Then again, the Fugitive was here to give us a weapon that we could use to fight back with, so maybe there was in fact a key!
Then again again, I think we're really not meant to think that hard about it.
Is there any type of key shown? I don't remember. Alien Language in one night. Not bad.
I thought the boy said "it says Predator Killer" , he doesn't , he says "it roughly translates as".
Yes , I have a dodgy version also.
The humans have decided to call them Predators, so when Rory reads whatever word Predators use to refer to themselves in their language, he translates it into "Predator" in English because that's what humans have decided to call them. That doesn't mean the word is actually "Predator" in their language.
I'm sure dolphins wouldn't refer to themselves as "dolphins", but if we could translate their language, we'd translate the series of clicks and chirps they'd use to refer to themselves as "dolphins" because that's what we call them in English.
EDIT
And yes, he does translate it. He reads it off the screen.
No traeger says "we had a vote , and Predator sounds cooler" That means they made that name up.
So Traeger managed to nickname the Predator what the Predator also called itself in its own language and that's also Predator?! Maybe I'm missing something here.
Edit: Actually he doesn't translate it does he, he just makes his own version of what he thinks it says. Gawd damn that ending. The Predator Killer
The kid is smart enough when he sees ~/\|} ^○ to translate that to 'Predators' when he's around the military, translate that to 'demons' if he's around King Willie, and translate that to 'ugly mofos' when he's around you.
Yeah but we named them the Predator. There would be no word translation. Unless the Predator knew we named them the Predator and put Predator Killer on the side..... In his own language.
The designs where better in most cases (there are quite the few variants) than what ended up in the film. And no one thought that it was a bad idea, much like Lucas had only yes men around for the prequels.