@voodoo magic.
Yeah I agree they are the three basic ingredients you said there. What I mean about tone, is credibility and making it believable. I feel for too long predator has been stuck in the past, where it just can't help itself recycling old throwback lines, which if I'm being brutally honest is utter cringe and hurts the films imo. It has to change. Predator was never a comedy film. I've said this many times over the years. The first film was a low key sci fi thriller/horror border line war film. Soldiers having outrageous toxic masculinity banter is part and parcel of the role and situation they were in. Which happens in real life. I just think the more it looks inwards and at former glory days, the more it holds the franchise back in going forward. And that's why I believe a modern gritty dark take on predator is the way forward in restoring legitimacy.