While sitting down with The Direct, Predator: Badlands Director and current franchise overlord Dan Trachtenberg discussed an earlier idea for a Predator protagonist film he considered at one point, that of a Predator hunting Nazis in a World War II setting:
Trachtenberg teased that “the very first nugget of the idea was, what if the Predator wins,” though he decided he really “didn’t want it to be a slasher movie where the slasher wins.” From there, though, he shifted direction while still focusing on the idea of audiences rooting for the Predator himself. This is where the Prey director played around with the idea of a story “set in World War II” where a Predator would “[kick] Nazi butt.”
Eventually, it evolved into the Predator being “the protagonist of his own story” on “his own journey, his own adventure.”
The Predator has been featured in a war setting before, such as the Civil War in Dark Horse’s Hell Come a Walkin’, and the Iraq War in Alien vs. Predator: Sand Trap. A WWII setting was also featured in Dan Trachtenberg’s recent animated Predator film, Killer of Killers. Still, it’s definitely a setting I could see fans being interested in a live-action film of.
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Prey revived the franchise, Badlands moved it forward.
Yeah I'd been calling him Yautja1488 for ages for a reason.
I know he's banned, but come off it with this shit lol. Most predictable take on the premise of a predator killing Nazis.
https://www.avpcentral.com/predators-in-world-war-2
Oh I see, I agree with you in that case. I probably jumped the gun due to so many people claiming KoK involved time travel when it released.
Your English is actually very, very good btw.
That, I fully agree with that! Preds don't care about where you are from, if you are the "good guy" or not, you are worthy, you are hunted, period.
But what I ment was that, if you would like to set the next movie in WW2 and have Dutch at the same time, then you would need time travel.
Sorry people of the forum, english is just a second language and sometimes I write like a monkey
No it doesn't. Being Frozen like in KoK is not time travel, and that's certainly what the current people working in the franchise would go with to introduce Dutch anywhere.
Considering Badlands tone I think it would need a hard turn in a different direction from Dan though. Which I wouldn't mind at all, I would welcome that and it would be very satisfying to me.
But also, that would leave any Arnold return out of the picture (hopefully) and that's not at all because I wouldn't like Dutch making a comeback, but more because that would require time travel, and this would be a deal breaker for me.
A movie about Greyback's hunting in WWII would be fantastic, if done properly. That shit would clap.
It just cost about 7 times the average slasher so it bombed hard.
God damn it.
The Predator 2 elder. He looks ace, they used the OG pred and aged him.
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Hard R and Winston design are still required. He wants the pred to stay alive ? Then involve Grayback, he has a 2nd Infantry division's trophy on him.
You're harsh man
It's more slasher than the first one of course, but I wouldn't say it's through and through. The train and slaughterhouse parts totally are though, and are my least favorite parts.
Ok maybe I read it wrong and too fast, I like this reading better I must say.
I didn't read that as him strictly calling the Predator a "slasher," but rather as him saying that a movie with the Predator winning told from a human POV would be comparable to a slasher film with the killer winning, and deciding that that wasn't what he was interested in doing in a story with a Predator coming out on top.
I believe you, but I was referring to the article mentioning that he apparently describes this potential WW2 movie as a slasher, and I think that would be a disservice to the creature.
Kinda like they did The Thing dirty in the prequel, turning it into a mindless slasher when the creature is so much more. That's what I fear here.
Prey is an existing example of Dan embracing the slasher aspect more, and thus potentially going back to that since it was a critical and commercial success.
Dek is nothing like a slasher, though. Feral's just one guy. It's not like he's representative of every Predator that Dan has put on screen.
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With a Feral-like Predator to make it truly perfect.
You'd love that right. Right?
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A more conventional predator hunting nazis during ww2 would be a dream film for me. Just saying. I would be beyond hyped.
In the end, we still ended up with a WWII chapter too in KoK.
Agree with you too! It was my childhood dream seeing Predator as the main hero, and see him hunt in the World War II. If Dan is going to make this movie too as the Predator main hero I would be so happy!
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