http://collider.com/the-predator-suburbs/
Quote'The Predator' Does Not Take Place in the Suburbs
Interest in the new Predator movie has been high for some time now, especially with Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Iron Man 3, and The Nice Guys writer/director Shane Black at the helm. And with production gearing up to begin in February in Vancouver, more details are starting to trickle out. We know that Boyd Holbrook (Narcos) is poised to star in the film, and last week we learned that Olivia Munn (Magic Mike, The Newsroom) is now in talks to join the ensemble. Included in THR's report on Munn's casting was the claim that The Predator will take place in the suburbs. However, Black himself reached out to tell us that is not the case—The Predator is not a movie about the suburbs.
There was reason to believe THR's report given Black's knack for subverting expectations, but it appears that they (or their sources) were mistaken. Details for the film are being kept firmly under wraps, but when the movie hits theaters on February 9, 2018, don't expect any suburban "Predator lurking in rich, fancy swimming pools" scenes.
I heard it is gonna be a movie with small video's and the predator reads camp story near the camp fire,
on how he did things.
Glad to see Black come out and shoot that down with Collider too. Always thought that was an odd comment considering what Dekker had said about the scope of the film, anyway.
I'm glad it's not gonna be in suburbia. Seems like far too mundane a setting for it.
I really would LOVE to see a predator hunting in the Middle East. Fighting American and Arabic soldiers would be an insane concept.
Well that's a relief, would of been a waste , going to be interesting to see how multiple locations plays out , I wonder if that means multiple predators
I'm so impatient about this movie
Then we find out there is one scene in the suburbs, just not the whole film lol
He also tweeted something about Dekker but also quickly deleted it, did anyone manage to grab a screen cap of it? Not sure why he would tweet something, delete it and reiterate it for Collider. Anyways, I had hopped on it last week at Predator4-Movie.com but not many took notice.
It was put across much more professionally with Collider. The tweet was somewhat sarcastic. Besides, they're a reputable and long serving site with an established relationship with Shane Black anyway so a great deal of Black related news comes from them.
Not to sound disrespecting to AVPR, we know its reputation, I wasn't angered a great deal about the setting, but the movie never took advantage of it to its full potential, now granted they could portray a Alien Predator invasion on a global scale as the presence of the Aliens assistance would contradict everything established in the original Alien film
Stoked about it being not soley in the burbs *wipes forehead*
ok, now tell us Olivia Munn isnt being used and we will all be cool.
Yeah, I've always felt that the new Predator movie would take place in the Middle East. It's what I expected for Predator 3, instead we got a new planet, which was cool, but they didn't really have the budget to go very far with it. Middle East would have been a great place to "test the waters" for the Predator franchise and could have been pulled off and done well on a tight budget pretty easily.
What's the status on Predator 4's budget? To be an "Event Film", I imagine it would be pretty high. I hope we get a global hunt, a Predator not content to remain in a single location, or the main characters tracking a Predator accross the globe, studying the carnage left in its' wake to try and guess where it will strike next and thus head it off.
The film being set in only a suburban setting never really made any sense.
I think the film will have multiple settings/perspectives. A middle eastern setting would be sweet, but I don't see that happening, though Holbrook as a soldier who's team is hunted while in war would have made for an awesome film.
Like what some people here are saying, I do hope that the Middle East is the true setting because that would be a nice change of location from the jungle or a city. In my opinion, I would have preferred Jason Statham as the lead because he is a well-known seasoned action star who is still making movies and that he is one of those wiry tough guys who really is a tough guy. Watching a predator speculating a war between terrorists and soldiers, then jumping in the battlefield to hunt everyone for sport, would be epic to see.
A Middle Eastern setting is so predictable though.
Quote from: The Joker on Nov 09, 2016, 12:08:08 AM
The film being set in only a suburban setting never really made any sense.
I think the film will have multiple settings/perspectives. A middle eastern setting would be sweet, but I don't see that happening, though Holbrook as a soldier who's team is hunted while in war would have made for an awesome film.
Something set to the backdrop of a Middle Eastern conflict perhaps?
Quote from: System Apollo on Nov 09, 2016, 04:50:44 AM
A Middle Eastern setting is so predictable though.
You say that but it never comes. As the modern conflict zones, I think it makes a fair bit of sense.
The Middle East checks only two of the three things from the box. It is usually picked because it is hot and a conflict zone but it is also dry and arid with no food. I only say that it is predictable because we usually jump to it for the reason that it is hot and a conflict setting but for the most part it has nothing else suitable for Predator. Places like Oceana (Not Australia of course), Africa, South Eastern Asia and South America are good choices seeing as cities have already been done before.
The Predator is here to hunt, not go on a buffet.
Could've been a real Spielbergian moment to have the predator uncloak itself in a tree, outside a lurking child's bedroom.
Quote from: SiL on Nov 09, 2016, 09:28:49 PM
The Predator is here to hunt, not go on a buffet.
But it was included in the Black and Dekker brochure!
In all seriousness, for those of you who pick Middle East as a good setting, how would you pace the plot?
I wouldnt have the Middle East as the whole film. I'd have that as the opening, then move to Japan
Quote from: Whiskeybrewer on Nov 10, 2016, 12:07:44 PM
I wouldnt have the Middle East as the whole film. I'd have that as the opening, then move to Japan
This is unpredictable which makes me interested. Why Japan though? No conflict and no standing military?
Quote from: System Apollo on Nov 10, 2016, 08:11:30 PM
Quote from: Whiskeybrewer on Nov 10, 2016, 12:07:44 PM
I wouldnt have the Middle East as the whole film. I'd have that as the opening, then move to Japan
This is unpredictable which makes me interested. Why Japan though? No conflict and no standing military?
Aliens have infested the sewers in Japan.
lol! The aliens in the sewers premise has been done too much. AvP on the SNES had the second level dedicated to sewers, AvP Requiem used the sewers for the second act and Eternal, which was my favorite in the way they utilized it; also had them in the sewers of Japan.
I'm surprised the question even popped up. They don't fit in that kind of environment.
Than again...AVPR.
Quote from: System Apollo on Nov 10, 2016, 08:11:30 PM
Quote from: Whiskeybrewer on Nov 10, 2016, 12:07:44 PM
I wouldnt have the Middle East as the whole film. I'd have that as the opening, then move to Japan
This is unpredictable which makes me interested. Why Japan though? No conflict and no standing military?
Because...
GOJIRA! :laugh:
Can you imagine the skull trophy? You could
live inside! Maybe turn that skull into the bridge of your spaceship.
Ok in all seriousness, maybe the Predator arrives to hunt some Yakuza, although that's been done before (P2 had him hunting gangs in a city and Predators had him fight a Yakuza) but still, just trying to think of a serious reason why one would go to Japan.
The trouble with Japan is it's still an absolute bastard to film there. Regulations are insanely tight.
Look at Ridley packing up shop partway through Black Rain and buggering off back to the States lol.
Quote from: System Apollo on Nov 10, 2016, 08:11:30 PM
Quote from: Whiskeybrewer on Nov 10, 2016, 12:07:44 PM
I wouldnt have the Middle East as the whole film. I'd have that as the opening, then move to Japan
This is unpredictable which makes me interested. Why Japan though? No conflict and no standing military?
For me its the Samurai concept, the honourable warriors squaring off. I did have the idea of an aged Japanese Businessman hiring the survivor of the opening scene. At one point i thought of him being a Yutani, but that would probs be a step too far
AREA 51 would be my ideal setting. They could use the Roswell New Mexico UFO crash of 1947. As well. It is also near the Navada Nuclear Test Site... Maybe this is where the group of special ops from Predator 2 our from and working for.
i agree with the predator observing the fighting in the middle east, then jumping in and going on a brutal hunting spree and hunting both sides in the opening sequence, then moving the story with one or a few of the soldiers elsewhere...like have it track the ones who escaped to another part of the world.
There's an obvious location that no one has yet mentioned...Mexico. The brutal cartels battling the military would be more than enticing for a Predator. Not only that; but there's both citiy and jungle terrain to hunt in.
Good point, but we already had gangers vs cops in urban setting. Recreating P2 is no better then recreating P1 ( looking at you Ps).
There seems to be a recent trend in horror movies that set the films in this 'upper middle class' paradise with swimming pools, big spacious homes, lots of technology. I'm getting pretty bored of that approach.
Predator works well in an environment that is a complete unknown for both the characters and the audience - that's why I think the first Predator's setting of a fictional country is so ingenious. It's both a familiar scenario and a foreign 'unknown' at the same time. Predator 2 deals with this too by including that weird Jamaican crime syndicate. It's so jarring that it actually makes Los Angeles seem less like the City of Angels and more like a mystic urban dystopia.
I really hope Shane Black can find a new location that invokes the same sense of mystery. These 'suburban' rumors had me worried, so I'm glad they got shot down.