The upcoming fifth Predator film with the current working title of ‘Skulls’ is nearing the end of Production in Calgary, Canada. It’s literally scheduled to wrap today but it’s not currently known if it will be extended yet again.
The director of the film, Dan Trachtenberg has been occasionally sharing tidbits from the set to Instagram, recently showing off himself wearing a Predator themed hoodie as well as some practical green blood in a container. After these two images below we’ll be showing his most recent post which could be considered a significant spoiler, so be warned if you continue!
The content of his latest post pretty much confirms a suspected plot point of the film.
In our recent reporting of the ongoing production, a stunt crew T-shirt shared to an Instagram story by Jung Jin Park showed an animal skull that appeared to be that of bear.
With Dan Trachtenberg’s Instagram post featuring a video of a creature performer wearing an incomplete Bear suit, it seems that this will indeed be an animal featured in the film.
While we know that creature effects workshop StudioADI has been involved with the production, we don’t know if this is a creation by them or another team. It’s also entirely possible that this practical bear is a stand in for lighting reference to be later replaced with computer generated imagery.
Another recent post by Trachtenberg caught our attention, this one apparently a snapshot of a production daily on a camera field monitor featuring two small furry animals:
Could these potentially be practical effects or lighting reference stand ins for bear cubs?
It remains to be seen if the bear will be the hunting target of a Predator or the Native American hunters featured in the film, perhaps it will be of both!
If it is to be the prey of a Predator, it will be the first time we’ve seen such a thing on the screen, but not the first time they’ve hunted these animals in the expanded universe. Predator encounters with bears are known by fans from the 1997 Dark Horse Comic ‘Predator: Primal’ and also the 2008 Steve Perry DH Press novel ‘Predator: Turnabout.’
With the movie’s principal photography coming to a close, hopefully it won’t be too much of a wait before some marketing of the film begins ramping up!
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Also is that a hunting camp I see?
Wait... What ?
Lets hope Skulls delivers #TrustDan
DD replied in the post, get hyped #TeamSasquatch
God I hope his vision for this film is good... No over the top things, no forced collaboration between preds and humans (we got enough of that IMO), just a gritty and dark survival movie, violent, implacable. Aaaand with a great pred design of course !
To be fully honest, at this point, just a better looking pred than what we recently got, even far from great, would be enough for me.
**IMDb finally listed a cast member for Skulls ........ Amber Midthunder
That's a wrap
Same. I imagine campfire tales, being told over and over again, over the ages. At some point the creature and subject of the story might be extinct, but the stories live on. It's why mythical tales sometimes hold some kind of truth to them.
I remember this piece about native Australians telling about giant crocodiles that used to live around there.
Later on bones were found. Bones of what appeared to be giant crocodiles. Confirming the native Australian stories, or at least part of it.
The series A Greek Odyssey with Bettany Hughes sometimes follow some ancient tale, which again holds some truths.
There's early drawings of a rhino where it appears to have some kind of special armour for skin.
Making it seem like a mythical creature. The skin part isn't true. But the strange animal with a horn part is.
The truth... Is out there!
Introducing the Gigantopithecus, an extinct genus of ape from the Early to Middle Pleistocene (when homo sapines was already around).
Like a gorilla it spent most of his time on four legs, but for comparison the image below shows the size of one standing on his back legs.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/85/Gigantopithecus_v_human_v1.svg
If I was a predator, I'd see a challenge.
If I was an early human, I'd be careful.
Most of the credit goes to Voodoo. I only added the humans.
@SiL - Dude, it totally slipped my mind on how Dutch defeated the Predator. 🤦 And seeing that's how the hunter-gatherers hunted, it'll definitely work. And to keep it kind of fair, just give the Predator a bow with some arrows, a spear, and snare traps. This'll make for some good action.
Ah I got ya. Here, at least in the U.S , the term caveman is typically perceived as unintelligent prehistoric or primitive human beings. So that's where I thought you were going.
It was kind of the point that only Dutch's resourcefulness and knowledge of more primitive skills (with a spicy dash of luck) saved him.
"But Predator tech!"
They can fly across space. They shoot plasma. They turn invisible. They don't get killed because they lack the tech necessary to defeat us, they get killed because they go out of their way to make it sporting. Wind us back a few thousand years and see them leaving the plasma casters and shurikens at home.
I could dig it.
I don't think you do. Apologies if I'm not clear enough.
The hunters aren't going to hunt a predator. They're gonna look for whatever killed that other animal, out of human curiousity.
But the main storyline would be about a predator hunting animals.
The humans are there to serve the story. As narrators and camera viewpoints.
Like maybe one of the hunters says early on "It's hotter than usual for this time of the year". And later on some tribe elder says "When I was young my elders told tales about the god of hunters coming down to Earth..."
Otherwise it'd be a movie with just the predator hunting animals, without any dialogue or humans present.
I hear you, fam, but there is no way those mammoth hunters would even come close to killing a Predator. This is just my opinion, of course.
In this hypothetical scenario it's about a Predator hunting large now extinct animals.
The humans are only there to observe and serve the story.
Let's say some find a dead mammoth* missing his head and spine. Along with a few strange prints and some green stuff.
The early humans would be surprised because it takes a group of them working together. They're the only people around so who or what could've done this?
So they go out to try to track this mysterious being.
Neanderthals were probably a lot smarter than we think as well not too mention a lot stronger.
I personally don't think cavemen behaved like half apes, homo sapiens have always been well homo sapiens, intellectually capable, they weren't dumber than people are now. Put a modern human on a deserted island with no modern tools and no knowledge of things he read in books and he is no different than a human being of 150 000 years ago, surviving on his wits, trial and error but by logical thinking.
You can easily resurrect a human of 200 000 years old and teach him how to drive a car.
Bro, Harry would destroy a Predator in hand to hand combat. As would a bunch of Timberwolves.
Not if they bite him on the nuts.
I didn't use the word primitive.
By cavemen I mean homo sapiens, not some neanderthal type with a big forehead.
Basically it'd be skilled hunter/gatherer types like the native Americans we'll get to see in Skulls but with less fancy clothing, art,...
Still a goofy idea to me.
For me I believe the modifier here is how scary you make it. The less friendlier and goofy you design your Sasquatch... the less you depict it like Harry from "Harry and the Hendersons"... the less risk.
The more frightening you depict your Sasquatch monster, the more scary it becomes... the more threatening foe... and there's no risk of comedy at all (unless the suit looks bad of course)
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Errr... cavemen make me nervous. Not in general sense, they don't haunt me in my dreams or anything lol.... but it seems to be very hard to depict primitive cavemen on screen without a section of your audience viewing them as a source of comedy, no matter how hard you try to keep the tone serious. So personally, I'd pick a route without them.
That's right. Animals were a lot bigger then.
And there were all kinds of strange hybrids which would make nice replacements for mythical animals.
You could add cavemen into the mix, so there be more and different viewpoints through the movie.
They find the ravaged (headless) remains of a large animal that has no natural enemies, along with some strange prints and green stuff. They decide to track it.
As I mentioned previously, a wolf pack would most likely harass a Predator, but a wounded one, that has been sliced open by a bear, would probably be different.
Predators are massive, but I can imagine a pack of 12 or so doing some damage to one. Also, check the bite force of a Timberwolf. If one can bite through moose bones in a couple of chomps, I'm sure a pack can inflict some damage to a injured Predator.
I'm glad someone has said this. Hand-to-hand, a Grizzly would annihilate a Predator - I say this fully aware one creature is fictional and the other exists here in the present day.
Was fortunate enough to see a couple of Grizzlies in Whistler and they are the real deal - terrifying.
Has the potential to be a great match-up on screen.
But yeah, a wolf pack hunting a wounded Predator sounds good to me!
I would love to see a film capture something like this. A Predator on the hunt for prehistoric creatures. A story of hunt and survival. 80-90 minutes long. A movie with no dialogue. Think Josh* Brolin out in the desert in "No Country for Old Men".
Damn would that be an expensive movie though.
* name correction edit
Not much ? A big bear could totally wreck a pred IMO.
For reference, this is a short faced bear which can be around 12-15ft tall standing up and hit the pounds by +1,000
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This can definitely give the Predator a good hunt
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And then when it tries to get back to its ship, a great white attacks!
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If the pred's allowed to use his claw, I don't see it as that big of a challenge.
Lions hunt in groups, that would be different.
And one pred vs a group doesn't seem fair. But maybe there's a crazy pred out there looking for challenge.
Personally give me a big croc or gator encounter.
Possibly with predator talking sounds translated as "Crickey. Got a real big one over here."
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/2c/98/40/2c9840554d60be07cab53b7b4f9b8ddb--indian-tribes-crocs.jpg
While doing an image search, I got results mentioning native Americans being involved in alligator wrestling. Turns out it originated from their old hunting techniques, because they used to hunt and eat them.
Now some Predator vs Pol Pot action would be great!
A wolf pack could also be interesting.
Gimme that crocodile action though.
Also IMDb has a new crew member listing.
Javier Arrieta ... costume supervisor