Last week studioADI shared a video looking at some of the unseen concepts for the Upgrade Predator’s “Menagerie” which was ultimately cut from the film. Only the film’s new interpretation of the Predator Hound would make it into the final cut. Now several more of the concept artists who worked on The Predator have shared even more artwork of these cut creatures.
First up we have a piece from Daniel Edery, of an early concept for the Predator Hound. This concept has some very obvious and distinctly Predator features in the way of the mandibles. This aspect of design for the menagerie was something the early scripts suggested but was largely removed judging by ADI’s video. The dreadlocks would be later added to ADI’s design during post-production.
Predator Dog (Daniel Edery)
Next up is some new artwork from Kyle Brown! We’ve previously seen Kyle’s work on Predator Killer designs but now he has shared two early explorations of the Predator Hounds. As with Daniel Edery’s concept, this first one from Kyle features mandibles:
Predator Dog
An even earlier design he posted shared more in common with Predators’ take on the idea of a Predator Hound. Kyle explained that the image was a: “Very very early pass at the Predator Dog/Hound for Shane Black’s The Predator. Some early info pointed to more connections to the other films, so I did a pass that linked them visually to the hounds seen in Predators (2010). This would be a creature fused with Predator DNA.”
Predator Dog
And last but by no means least, we have a handful of concepts shared by Michael Vincent! The majority of these we saw in studioADI’s video but Michael added some additional context to the designs.
Michael also shared a coloured version of one of the sketches shared by ADI, explaining that originally the Predator Hounds were intended to be the size of horses!
I was asked to take a pass at the Predator’s attack dogs. They were originally going to be the size of horses… The colored render I did after the fact.
Predator Dog
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They dumb it down so much every time.
The script doesn't match
the scope of the concept art.
Vertebrates and invertebrates exist for a start.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaw
If you go the scientific route, based upon what we know today-
No- it wouldn't make sense; because in nature there's hardly even two arthropods that possess similar mandibles.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandible_(arthropod_mouthpart)
So even if you want to make the argument that the mandibles make sense because they evolved on the same world-
Fair enough, but then just like animals on Earth you'd also have to concede then logically the mandibles would look completely different;
because both would utilize them in completely different ways- as arthropods do, or even mammals.
They would absolutely not look nearly identical as the last two artworks show.
aside from the last two hounds.
And I really like the body of the last Hound. But that face...? I really detest this pred-creature hybrid concept. I feel like I'm back in the Ripley clone lab in Resurrection. Why Shane, why.