Have you ever wanted to see a clan of Gort Predators take on Santa’s Reindeer? I didn’t know I wanted that but damn, The Predator Holiday Special was fun! Having teased it last week, The Predator’s Holiday Special aired last night during Bo-Jack Horseman. And now, 20th Century Fox have uploaded the full Holiday Special to their own social outlets!
The stop-motion animated Holiday Short featuring THE PREDATOR as he tangles with his most formidable foe yet – Santa and his reindeer.
Entertainment Weekly has also shared a behind-the-scenes article that digs a little into the story behind The Predator Holiday Special. It turns out the Special was actually the creation of Matt Senreich and David Brooks’ Stoopid Buddy Stoodios, the studio behind the infamous Robot Chicken!
Executive producers Matt Senreich and David Brooks say there were hanging out at Comic-Con with 20th Century Fox’s vice president of worldwide creative strategy, Matt Motschenbacher, when they were presented with the opportunity of turning the legendary property on its head.
“It was really just a random hangout moment,” says Senreich. “I geeked out about the idea because we just loved the property, and I love taking projects and taking these absurd worlds and making them mundane.”
The Predator is now out on Blu-ray and DVD in the United States. It is due out on the 28th of January in the UK.
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Indeed!
Merry Christmas!
I think the Predator one is miiiiles better than the Star Wars one
Predators will never get to win in any story it seems.
Star Wars fans have their Christmas Special. Now, Predator fans do too!
There really are some sad buggers on here...
However I really dig the animation and sets. It was a technically well made short. Good job on that. It's just the source of the parody wasn't worth making funnies over.
Robot Chicken had done tons of ALIENS, PREDATOR and AVP stop motion parodies during it's, many, series runs. YouTube it.
Don't believe the "background story" of this particular parody, I just think Robot Chicken is so widespread 20th Century Fox did a "thow everything and the kitchen sink" approach into damage limitation, including a very early home release (US only).
I'll admit, I was hoping it would be at least 10 minutes, but I still dug it. It would be great to get a full blown 20-30 minute Christmas special where there is some lengthy stalking and a plot.
"Larry...you sonofab*tch".
Of course, we're supposed to accept this as the height of entertainment because "its parody, duh". Parody of what? The fossilized anti-humor of late night television tumors like SNL?
I thought it was great, and the animation was really good on top of that
You both are joking right? Please tell me these complaints are made with tongue-firmly-implanted-in-cheek.
Bonus: No half-assed CGI pseudo-Ironman suit at the end.