A few weeks back we reported on some concept art by Fausto De Martini for a facehugger-inspired breathing mask that was previously intended to be featured at the end of The Predator, prior to the “Predator-Killer” suit making the cut instead.
Alec Gillis of StudioADI also shared a practical prop that was created for the alternate ending. Now it seems that three different endings were filmed, one of them featuring Ripley in the pod.
Thanks to Yuri Everson, who shared these photos to Instagram confirming this, we can see this prop was in fact in front of the cameras at some point. And while I had to do a double-take, that is indeed Ripley’s name on the flight suit of the pod occupant, though Sigourney Weaver was not a part of any filming.
His comment sheds some light on this, stating that a total of three endings were filmed:
“We shot 3 different endings for #thepredator, all variations of a “Predator Killer”. This unused ending was Predator Killer Ripley wearing the breather mask we created for the film. You can see her name tag there on her costume. Breanna Watkins played Ripley under the mask instead of Sigourney Weaver. The moving “fingers” and “tail” were deemed too facehugger-like on the day and were cut and removed by someone… Sorry @jon_k_miller who headed up making the breather mask for us @thestudioadi with @saratheterra @ape5150 Zac Teller and Lord Garth but they made me do it! Michael Diner and his amazing Vancouver crew made the pod. All in no time flat. More #bts to follow…”
The Weyland-Yutani markings seen on the concept art for the pod make a bit more sense now.
Breanna Watkins is a stunt performer who has been in a number of films including Star Trek: Beyond and Deadpool 2.
Personally, I have my doubts that a time-traveling, predator-killer armor wearing Ripley (or perhaps she was just the weapon herself?) would have gone over any better with fans than the ending we got.
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So is Newt, and there she is in that pic.
Doubtful. He's dead. But if the pizza is more than 8 years late, do we get it for free?
People are pulling ideas out their butts and it's not one of those instances where it works.
What's next? Animatronic Bill Paxton to show Hudson's a Pred-killer as well? Someone playing a fake Hicks?
No, I really don't want to see an animatronic Paxton. Seriously, all animatronics are just . . . horrifying, to a degree.It's the whole famn damily.
When does Hicks show up?
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I was hoping someone else would say it.
I mean he didn't object to Covenant, so...
Fassbender might object.
I assumed it would be Dutch, until the Ripley ending. Now I assume it's a T-800.
"This thing we obviously intended to look like a facehugger looks too much like a facehugger, let's not go with that." X)
The fact that it looked like a mechanical face hugger wasn't the problem??!??!!? It was the moving fingers and tail!??!!? WTF!??!? But Ripley being attached to it isn't "too much"
More confusion, more randomness-that-doesn't-make-sense. Which actually, the irony of it all is after seeing this piece of garbage on the big screen makes perfect sense.
I think it should have been information. About tech, their society, weaknesses, numbers, strategic assets etc. Stuff that gives you an all around edge in a potential war. Also saves on the time it takes to reverse engineer the armor to lern about tech.
Give a man a fish, he'll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, he'll never go hungry. With the predator tech that was gifted to humanity, humans can make more sets of armor to defend themselves.
Royce or Alice would have been perfect actually. Even if Black was saying this was set before Predator. But nothing on screen says that so it could have worked
One monster overtakes the
more interesting one in the plot.
The villain, one actor steals
every scene.
With stupid characters.
Am I describing "The Predator"
or the aforementioned Alien?
The difference is, all the things
the Alien prequels have going
for them in production design,
the villain winning, the classic
version of the monster firmly
established as the superior.
The excellent Prologue
Peter Weyland and David.
The virals.
The Predator has none of.
Don't give them ideas. I've joked before about how The Predator and to a lesser extent Prometheus took good grown up franchises down the silly Marvel comic book route, but looking at the way things are now the studio probably seriously thinks that's a good idea. Blinded by the $$$$$ that a totally different genre is making.
Same here.
I was exactly this way with "Alien Covenant" actually. I do own it on blu-ray now, but I waited months. After seeing it in the theater I was just in no hurry.
Actually do what the vast majority of us did... think about it for a bunch of weeks first and then not watch it again.
It's the Yutani shoulder cannon ending pumped up 100x and gleeful in its not caring about the logistics of anything.
A nearby garage, and a company that wanted screen-time. I can't stand advertising like that.
It just takes me right out of the movie.
I certainly appreciate everyone knocking this film as it made it an overall enjoyable experience.
I am coming at this as a casual Predator fan. My thing is Aliens. So there was really nothing that overly irritated me. I will definitely have to do a few more watches though. Some preliminary comments:
Where did the gang all get those Indian bikes from?
The "Iron Man" armor mainly suffered from being too silly as a design. The basic idea was not bad.
The large Pradator did not make a lot of sense to me strictly from my background as an industrial designer. Effectively, my issue with it is anthropometrics. On earth, we design things for the 95 percentile man. Based on this, most people can fit in a car. Am I to believe that the spread of Predator people is so vast that they have to design everything to fit small and large predators? At that scale, it would be practically impossible to accommodate such size differences. But that's my first impression.
And now on topic, yes it would have been really jumping the shark if they sent us Lt. Ripley from the future. However, giving us the Iron Man armor further separates this series from the AVP series IMO. We don't see this sort of tech in the Alien films.
This is how I feel about it, too. I'm not a Predator fan by and large; but have watched each movie at least once - except for this one, which I haven't seen yet. I have largely avoided any reviews or other commentary but the general vibe filtering across the Community is Disappointment.
Then this piece of idiotic 'alternate ending' featuring Ripley appears online and my interest has dived even further as it concerns me that such inane creative philosophy permeates the making of the entire movie along with the whole "Fans will LOVE IT!" bullshit is a very, very risky path to take. And in this case, falls flat on its face to give 'The Predator' an embarrassingly bloodied nose, indeed. This does not look good.
For me, the Big Question is 'If the movie has been so poorly received, then why drive any remaining interest it may have into the ground by releasing bullshit content that was never in the movie?' Some bullshit should just stay on the cutting room floor and not be released to the public. Ever. This content belongs in that category.
I'll probably end up watching a pirated copy of the movie at a buddy's house mixed in with a bunch of Asylum Studios stuff on a Saturday night. From what I gather, 'The Predator' is at that level, anyway.
-Windebieste.
So, in the other hand is the vacuum cleaner. I blew the dust with the airbrush, which meant I didn't actually touch the head, and straight into the vacuum cleaner. And....
It worked!
Beer in hand, lights out, expectations lowered, and here I go to watch The Predator for the first time....
Nothing makes you feel like dad-material more, than opening up your own-Blu-Ray player and making it work again
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Ha ha! I am sorely tempted, if not for the FOMO which is welling up in my chest. Partly, I want to join in in the discourse on this subject, but partly I am interested to see what will happen if I go in with literally the lowest expectations ever...
Indeed.
Not having seen yet The Predator on account of a BR disc failure, I will venture to say that the Predator helmet has always been moderately reminiscent of the Iron Man face-features, so it's not much of a stretch. But armored dreads? Lol. I really shouldn't be here, reading all these spoilers.
I agree. But if you're a big corporation like Disney, the money is all that matters. I think the Solo movie proved there are limits to what you can do, even when the label says Star Wars.
For Predator fans, no karma deserved this. At the time we had three films to speak of, and while some fans may not be fond of "Predator 2" and/or "Predators", there has never been a mass fan outrage over them that was going around, to deserve what came around: An 11 foot Predator, an iron man suit with dreads, tons of comedy, a friendly Pred-Dog, and a child suffering from autism equating to a true warrior.
I guess you could solely be looking at the time-travelling, Predator killing, back-from-the-dead Ripley scene and suggesting that is karma for Alien fans frustrated with the prequels, but it didn't even make it in the movie. So I don't see any karma in play at all, if you buy into that sort of thing.
Anyway,
Hopefully that means a third prequel is still possible.
Bob Iger originally only mentioned that the Fox Searchlight and Fox 2000 divisions would be kept after the merger. People assumed from that, that 20th Century Fox would therefore be shelved. However, the latest news suggests that 20th Century Fox would be kept as a separate brand under Disney much like Marvel and Lucasfilm. Emma Watts (who worked with Ridley Scott to help realize the prequels) would effectively become Fox's version of Kathleen Kennedy.