There was one particular piece of footage shown during the recent Predator: Badlands SDDCC Hall H panel where the crowd wasn’t instructed to put their recording devices away.
While creature effects artist Alec Gillis described the gameplan for the effects of the film, a behind the scenes video was played showing off some of the props, suits, and predator weaponry on display in the workshop. Prominently shown is a new Predator sniper weapon, something we’ve loved the concept of since a similar type of weapon was included with NECA’s Ultimate Scout Predator released back in 2020.
We also get a glimpse of Dek creature performer Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi being prepped on set. Check out the clip below!
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Kinda wanna see him hit a Gore on a xeno now.
When I heard it was Shane, I also thought we were going to get the best movie after Predator or even better. I mean, it was Hawkins we were talking about...I was even sure we were going to get an Arnold scene or cameo. Maybe that's why i'm so cautious with Badlands too.... hoping for the best.
I don't know if there's much of me on here at the time, I think I was taking a bit of a break from the site around the time of The Predator's release, and the film itself didn't exactly inspire me to come and do a ton of posting about it afterwards...
I have been around for years without joining. I wish I was active before and after The Predator to witness the huge expectation vs reality shock.
I think it's what led me to register here, that film.
OMG A NEW PRED WITH HAWKINS WRITING THE SCRIPT AGAIN?!?!?!?!?
The deflatuion after seeing it was top tier, I must say.
Right there with you on this.
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lol that is funny. The truth is when people have a certain view of something that they grew up with and have grown to love. Something which *to them* they have an deeply intimate understanding of and when that medium changes and becomes something unrecognizable *to them* in some ways, well then it's only natural they will have feelings about it, good or bad.
I'm personally getting more excited about Badlands as of right now as it's become more of a love hate relationship. I think the trailers don't really emphasize the Predator of old but I do think the film will. If Prey is any testament (other than Feral's design), then I do think Dan does get it. So, I'm reserving final judgement for the films release and I'm getting hyped as we get closer too November.
Absolute torture of a movie - especially through the eyes of a Predator fan.
I agree, I have written this before here but I would like to see the OG design co-existing with these other new weird designs, at least that would make more sense
Yup, I think The Predator could have been a good movie, but those moments that ruined it for me where (i'll try to remember):
-Quinn swallowing an alien ball that he had no idea what could do to his body
-A bookworm scientist (the girl, I don't remember her name) suddenly turned Ripley out of nowhere (OWLF could have contacted her while she was at a shooting range for example, then the character would have been more realistic)
-An autistic kid suddenly figuring out Predator language and tech
-Those predator dogs that did nothing for the plot and were even forgotten mid movie
-Again the kid, going trick or treating with a predator mask and blowing up a house (also because now bio masks have plasma casters inside)
-The moment the predator uses a severed arm to signal the driver everything is ok
-The huge predator 2.0, what's the point of that huge body? aren't predators supposed to be stealthy, cloacky, smooth killers?
-The excess of jokes made during the movie (it was funny in Predator 1 when Shane was trying to make Billy laugh, but this was taken way too far in here)
-The predator reading Quinn's kid's address from a board on the wall by looking at the bio mask recording (we have this technology even today with AI, but since when a predator understand adresses and uses Google maps?)
-The Marvel kind of final battle, where one of the guys sacrifices himself by jumping into the bad predator's ship engine (you are telling me this ships travel the galaxy going into unknown planets and a simple human can destroy the engine?, and even our planes can still fly with one engine today without crashing)
-The kid figuring out how to access the predator ship...
-The suit at the end....I don't have to explain this one
And in general the plot all over the place. These are the things I remember made me roll my eyes, probably you guys have different opinions, this my personal take on what made this movie suck for me.
Dan was going to pull a Cloverfield with the marketing, that would have been cool but it probably would have been wasted, since it would have being attached to The Predator.
No, it was Shane Black's fault. Him and Fred Dekker are almost entirely at fault (Fox did botch the edit, but by all accounts what was there prior was bad, too).
I think The Predator is absolute dogshit, at the level of AVPR.
But given Shane Black's body of work, he does seem like the right guy that should have really "gotten" Predator. I don't blame anyone for hiring him. I would have done it, too. It's just a fit that seemed too good to be true at the time. Shame about how it panned out, and how ill-suited to the material he actually was.
Prey was actually originally developed alongside The Predator over at Fox. Dan wanted it to be that folks would sit down to see The Predator, and a mysterious trailer would play beforehand for Prey.
Things got very shaken up as Disney was looking in the studio's future. The Predator bombed, the acquisition happened, COVID struck... and now here we are.
"YOU JUST WANT THE SAME MOVIE OVER AND OVER AGAIN! YOU'RE AFRAID TO CHANGE! YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND THE AMAZING ARTISTIC VISION OF THIS DIRECTOR! YOU'RE STUPID AND MEAN TO HOLLYWOOD STUDIOS AND YOU'RE UGLY AND SMELL BAD!"
I just can't shake the feeling of Deja vu.
And I don't even think The Predator and Predator Badlands have bad premises. I just don't Don think they're being handled well at all.
Like I think The Predator for example has two really good premises that got smushed together into one clusterf**k. The idea of a Predator not on a hunt but crash landing and being pursued by the government-that's a very interesting premise! Especially if it was handled in an X-Filesesque way. Or a Predator clan war spilling to Earth, again there's a lot of ways that could be handled well!
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What do you guys think?
Also, I'm really curious how they will manage the whole language thing, linguistically speaking.
Let me guess it wasn't Shane Black's fault, it was the source material that 'doesn't work'.
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Love me The Nice Guys and Kiss Kiss Bang Bang and even Iron Man 3.
The Predator is... dire. But on paper, I'd have hired Shane Black, too...
Had such high hopes for that because of Shane Black's involvement - until I read the leaked script on here.
The more I re-watched it (yes - I put myself through that, I'm ashamed to admit!!) the more I thought it felt like Shane Black helping Fred Dekker out for old times' sake.
It was an utterly horrendous mish-mash of warped concepts and dated ideas. And having Sterling K Brown utter racial slurs was a f**king disgrace, truth be told.
And let's not forget his most successful script, Lethal Weapon was changed a lot by the director...
I mean, there was supposedly someone like that in charge of a previous movie... that's how we got The Predator in 2018.
But I understand Disney Star Wars is super popular right now, so I get why everyone is excited for this,
But, like most dreams, such a thing is impossible.
Oh how I wish it was forever!
But I think if we're gonna finally get a recurring hero Predator...it should be a Jungle/City Hunter variant and not a Gulp Shito Zoomer Midget version of the Predator. None of the various subspecies have been as cool and iconic as the original anyway and having one of them as a our 'hero' Pred and then introducing a rotating supporting cast of secondary Predators you can go crazy-which seems like it would serve both Predator fans and Dan Trachtenberg fans. P:HG shows us that the OG design can look great with distinctive alternate color morphs.
Of course Trachtenberg doesn't like the original design and he's unfortunately now in complete charge of Predator forever so the point is moot anyway.
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It's definitely a blink and you could miss it thing, so I don't blame you. Those who pick apart every frame are definitely the ones who will notice that kind of stuff.
Just me slow on the up take
A lot of us have pointed it out since we saw him in the first trailer.
I agree with you 100%
If I saw a trailer for a Star Wars show and saw Dek with his full outfit on, he wouldn't look at all out of place.
But put any other Pred from any Predator movie in that same Star Wars show, they would look wildly out of place.
Imagine JH or CH in Star Wars, they'd stick out like a sore thumb. Dek in his full hooded cloak, tunic and mask outfit wouldn't.
Apparently he won't be wearing mask and hooded cloak for long though.
Still, if you removed Dek's head and just saw his body, the outfit design isn't very "Predator".
It's the tunic I think.
i don't see it.
I guess the message is clear enough by now
Well actually, it's more the fact that your little collective of geniuses are just repeating the same points over and over again to each other without a care in the world for the other users on this forum. We get it. We heard you loud and clear the first time, and we'll continue to hear you because apparently it's all you guys can talk about.
Yep. It's just getting annoying at this point.
Don't say that kind of thing around these parts, you are not supposed to state the obvious. Some may get very angry when hearing the truth.
Yup... welcome to the party pal!
Yes unoriginal and a bit lazy. Developed a whole working language but made the clans and predators feel like orcs.