With only 2 weeks to go until the release of Predator: Killer of Killers and the recent upload of a brand spanking new trailer for Dan Trachtenberg’s upcoming animated anthology Predator film, the writer/director has just shared a new behind-the-scenes tease of Predator: Badlands & Predator: Killer of Killers!
On location shooting Badlands while reviewing animation for Killer of Killers!
*freeze and enhance* The Killer of Killers footage that Dan is watching appears to be a scene from the trailer in which a Predator spaceship approaches the Earth. The Predator: Badlands footage appears to be the CGI-faceless scene of Dek and another Predator fighting, as well as an injured Predator on the floor.
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It most certainly does...
The Elves in question also have big Hellraiser vibes, if that helps.
It just hit me now, as I reread some posts in this thread, that I somehow I totally missed the word "Orks" in your original post.
I wasn't actually nailing down any one particular faction, just more of an overall aesthetic, in my mentions of 40K. That being said, I am now quite interested in digging into the Elves that you mentioned here a bit...
Finally gave this a listen now, thank you for recording it! Very good Q&A session.
The dreadless Predator concept being something that Alec thought of years ago, just from adding the dreads last in the process each time while building up the creature suits, is such a cool detail.
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Never read any of the A/P/AVP runs from this era, heard that they were kind of awful across the board so I never felt the need to bother with them, but I did always find the covers to be pretty striking (even if I don't understand what's going on with the Aliens' pincers, or like them being controlled and used as the Predators' hunting dogs).
I mean, this one's a very obvious homage to fury road, and it's an actual product, not something a fan made.
Meanwhile they do have a faction that kills for pleasure, abducts people and exotic creatures to be dragged into arenas, and even loves hoverbikes - the evil space elves.
I've only compared them to orcs in general (although it could be any generic group henchman) and only regarding the 4th segment. I know nothing about 40k.
For your edification; their broad aesthetics and tone are honestly much closer to mad max than anything else, with the absurdity and black comedy ratcheted up to 11 in usual GW fashion. Heavy Metal Big Guys Who Like Skulls is most of Warhammer, so it's fair play people are associating this depiction to that setting, but the Orks definitely ain't it - the evil space marines and evil space elves are a lot closer, but not as well known or memed.
Perry the platypus could definitely defeat a predator.
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My buddy sent me a screenshot of this glitch he got on his end hahah.
I'm guilty of this one, and also very much an outsider that just kind of peers in every so often on that property without ever really knowing what the hell I'm looking at, so I'm very much not at all an expert on anything 40K. I can't speak to anything specific from the lore/setting, but it was just an aesthetic overlap (probably more appropriately, a similar overlapping shared well of influences in aesthetics) that made my mind want to jump there.
But I was very impressed and surprised by this film. Aside from that nonsense frame rate, I thought Killer of Killers was fantastic.
Never. Hoping we have it in our hands in about a year or so like we did with PREY. We were loud enough and they listened last time, and I think we can make it happen again.
It's not up to them.
Disney own the IP. Netflix owns the product which was made through collaboration.
Disney ahsn't wanted it to be released, because Netflix is a rival and they see no point in allowing a rival to make money through something they own (and I'm certain that sentiment would probably be mutual), which almost certainly why they made sure their Marvel TV productions were removed from Netflix and came into their exclusive ownership, to help bolster their own streaming service.
To be honest, after knowing what we do about it, I feel we dodged a bullet. It didn't sound great.
Now onto KOK....I liked it for the most part, I don't think we needed the fourth act, seemed kind of pointless and I would have liked my imagination to fill that bit in. I thought the WW2 was the weakest of the three (not sure what anyone else thinks?), with probably the Viking being the strongest with the Ninja a close second.
The Viking one seemed like she just got lucky but in a clever (story telling) way. Non spoilers obviously.
Either Jungle Hunter was supernaturally skilled, or Dutch and Hopper's teams were the most incompetent soldiers in history.
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Even the big Elder/King/whatever Predator can't stop three barely-armed, disoriented humans from overpowering him and stealing his ship.
And none of this is a limitation of short stories, or an anthology. A short story can span a lifetime. It's just poor storytelling, which is my biggest issue with the whole thing.
Even though I loved Prey, it now feels like that film is the start of a reboot or reimagining of the whole franchise. Everything before Prey doesn't feel like its apart of this universe beyond the callback with the pistol and Andolini. Jungle Hunter and City Hunter/Lost Tribe certainly don't feel like they are apart of this interpretation.
But I don't remember that being a particularly popular stance.
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And where exactly have you seen "a lot" of people complain about Feral hand-fighting the bear? Im not sure rn if ive ever seen that complaint, let alone lots of it. If anything, the majority of people who DID complain about that segment rather complained that it was a big bitch move of him to fight the bear (and the wolf) fully cloaked, instead of going raw, uncloaked hand2hand.
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For all its many faults, the arena scene in Attack of the Clones was much better.
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The only one that beats the arena stuff in this is the Harkonnen Arena in Dune 2...
Show me something that has more depth than a puddle.
Aka you interpreted a shot of a guy looking exhausted that way decades ago and everyone else is wrong.
Anyway I'm not really sure I get the aversion
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Like I remember a lot of whining about Feral fighting the bear in Prey because "Why didn't he stalk it from afar and shoot it? Why did he just start wrasslin?" Because they're adrenaline junkies that love getting their hands dirty? Because it gets their blood pumping and their dicks hard? They've always been pleasure killers. Exploring other avenues for that is cool.
Like are we really stumped why a species that stakes out planets to shoot primitives with laser guns would also get their rocks off watching gladiator games. Really? Its narrow minded fandom brainrot of the highest order.
There's nothing "definite" about that ending in regards to Dutch's characterization.
people are "broken" in many different ways. And they can recover...
If you're referring to my comment here, I meant what Predators the movie should have been. Not Predators the race.
That being said,
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All the depth of a saturday morning cartoon.
Citation needed.
You know what, until very recently I would've been against the idea but now after watching Killer of Killers twice...
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I love how much the final stretch of KOK embraces the ideas the heart of what Predators could/should have been in ways that Predators just couldn't be bothered with doing itself. There are so many shades of Rodriguez's 90s concepts in here than Rodriguez ended up actually bringing to the table himself in the much more neuterd version of the film we got in 2010.
And Dutch would fit right in as some veteran of these big gladiator battles.
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... right?