Shane Black Directing Predator Sequel! - Part 1

[chaseter]

I think it’s clean up purposes. Same reason they have the bombs too, to kill their prey but wipe out traces of what they were hunting too. Don’t want your prey getting your stuff and getting better than you, right?

That makes sense. Although Predator 2...they come to get the body but also pay respect to the Human that defeated their own. Predator 1....did he destroy his ship? I don’t remember...no other Predators showed up to clean up.

 

[Teelie]

I think his ship was in the blast radius of that nuke making for nothing left to retrieve.

 

[Spider-Aziz]

The Venom syndrome basically?

I saw the Predator in the teaser, and his ship, and wrist controls design and function.

 

[Punisher_MAX]

From the few scenes I see the Pred in he actually looks like the black ones from Predators. Maybe this explains the offshoot Preds in the series?

 

[PhasedPlasma101]

Predator alien equipment and mythological tech being mailed in a cardboard box, U.S.P.S.??

 

[TheVileOne]

Predator alien equipment and mythological tech being mailed in a cardboard box, U.S.P.S.??

Sending it USPS is probably the safest way to do it

 

[Aximili86]

To be fair, we don't have any context for that. It might not even be the government black-ops lab doing that (yeah, it'd come off pretty lame if that's how they're transporting this stuff), but maybe it's been stolen, disgruntled former employee trying to expose them or whatever. Kind of figuring "hiding all this in plain sight might be the most secretive way of getting it where it needs to go", like nobody would even bother checking.

 

[OutOfBoose]

In the script it's explained why and how alien equipment got mailed.

 

[-JKR-]

It might as well be a Michael Bay movie. Explosions everywhere, bigger, badder, smarter Predators. It's comical. In fact, I'm sure in a Simpsons episode they joke about how Hollywood literally sit there and say "It needs to be bigger! more explosions! they're smarter! faster!" etc. It's such a joke.

A great Predator film can be made again with 1 original Predator. Doesn't need an upgrade, doesn't need an army or fellow Predators, none of that fancy BS just to make a buck.

If the writer/director needs to use those cheap cop-outs to make the film, they don't understand what makes the Predator such a good 'bad guy' and certainly don't deserve to be given the opportunity to make a Predator film.

I just worry it'll be so bad, it'll bury Predator for good. Well. Maybe 10 or so years.

And yea. Cast the hot chick as a teacher/scientist. Honestly....it's so comically bad it's unreal.

If you want to see a movie featuring one Predator, why don't you just watch the original again?

All the complaints I see pretty much stem from the fact that people want to see a rehash of the original movie (with a variable - "ooohh, have the Predator go up against vikings", how exciting!)... which by the way has already been done (Predators).

A group of people going up against one Predator... has... been... done.

They're trying to expand the mythos with this one, which is something James Cameron did with Aliens. And it worked like magic.

 

[Doctor Jones]

The sound of it being a strange mix of black comedic elements and a Spielbergian/Monster Squad suburbia setting meets Predator sounds pretty awesome to me. It's the type of things we should be seeing more of in a franchise, instead of it being in another jungle setting. Just pushing it forward in new directions. I think it's one of those things where it sounds strange and could be a tonal disaster and might read strange but only Black sees and knows how to execute it in his head. And that's why Fox might not have put out a good trailer because they just don't know how to tackle that. Or it backfired and Fox is trying to hide it. But considering the talent here, I doubt that.

The photos and such are very Shane Black. Looks like a group of misfit assassins and lunatics who are the only people in town who can stop this monster. I think this could be blast. It's within the spirit of Predator but it has a different spin on it. He knows his core and if he sticks to it we'll be fine. This is Shane Black and Fred Dekker. They deserve the benefit of the doubt than just outright dismissal. And dismissing it on the premise it takes place in the same location as AVP:R is stupid and sounds like studio logic to me; just very superficial thinking. There are a lot of different factors at play.

 

[The Endless]

Yes Black and co have the right idea. Why bother doing some we've all seen before or expect to see?

We'd end up with another Predators.

I think this film looks very interesting and if anyone can execute this insane premise... it's Shane Black. Simple as that.

 

[Punisher_MAX]

I for one am totally for a Predator anthology in which we see it hunt in different time periods and be the basis of mythology and legend. Vikings vs Predator? Beowulf came from it. Native Americans vs Predator? The concept of the Wendigo? Spartan vs Predator? Thr minotaur or something. That seems like a cool concept to me anyway.

 

[MadVillainy]

Sending it USPS is probably the safest way to do it

Better than freaking UPS

 

[Elayis]

I'm a big fan of Shane Black's and have been looking forward to this since it was announced, but this was a bad trailer. It literally had no hook or any compelling reason to get me to watch it. Black's interview with Collider did a much better job of getting me hyped than this seemingly random collection of events.

Hopefully the actual movie is much better (like Edge of Tomorrow, which also had horrible trailers).

Trailer was vanilla as hell. I also hate 'hybrid' and 'upgrade' stuff. I don't think it has ever worked in any film ever.

I agree with this wholeheartedly; gave me Jurassic World flashbacks.

 

[Pennywise]

Set visits from various outlets.

http://bloody-disgusting.com/interviews/3432088/going-looney-set-predator/
http://bloody-disgusting.com/news/3432561/set-visit-bleeds-can-kill-effects-design-predator/
http://bloody-disgusting.com/interviews/3431416/interview-day-prey-cast-details-characters-predator/
https://nerdist.com/the-predator-shane-black-interview-set-visit/
http://collider.com/shane-black-interview-the-predator
http://www.denofgeek.com/uk/movies/the-predator/57636/visiting-the-set-of-the-predator
http://www.joblo.com/movie-news/set...-to-know-about-shane-black-s-the-predator-726

 

[Aximili86]

Yeah, Doctor Jones, that's sort of how I'm approaching this. Personally I'm not loving some of this conceptually, but it's also Shane Black. He knows story, he knows this world, and he's more than capable on delivering on R-rated thrills & scares.

Going to give it the benefit of the doubt, no point writing it off before it's out.

 

[terry78]

He's going for a very 80s feel as he should. Predators are very 80s movie monsters.

 

[Doctor Jones]

Yeah, that Collider article was excellent and Black explained it much better than that trailer did. I'm more excited about this. It sounds like an awesome comic book type thing with this crazy mix of genres that can work. I think this could really be the ideal sequel to Predator if all of that is pulled off.

 

[Kevin Roegele]

They have to be very careful that the Preds don't become generic movie monsters that are just there to be dispatched in elaborate ways. The genius of the original is that it was convincingly, awe-inspiring deadly. The good guys didn't stand a chance against it until the very last second.

Then by the time you get to Alien vs Predator and Predators, we see the Inverse Ninja Law in full effect.

 

[Doctor Jones]

Read that Collide article and Black explains how they're adhering to the myth of The Predator but also using their fundamental understanding of it to expand it.

 

[Pennywise]

Two quotes about the Predators that grabbed my attention.

Pretty interesting how the Den of Geek set visit mentions the Predators will more agile. Should be interesting as I'm so used to the movements Kevin Peter Hall provided in the first two films.

All that change, Prince explains, when he got a call from The Predator's stunt coordinator; Prince made a video demonstrating his parkour skills, sent it off, and within a few weeks, he was on a plane bound for Los Angeles.

"I just got in there and started swingin' and jumpin', started running around. We did the audition process - there was me, Kyle, about three other guys, all about the same height. We drew in our own take of some kind of creature movement. I mixed in some hunting and primal elements with a lot of my parcour movements - a lot of jumping, vaulting, rolling around. I guess Shane liked it, because the next day they told me I got it. I was like, What? I was working minimum wage last year, and now I'm here!"

So how does a friendly artist from Atlanta, Georgia get into the headspace of a ruthless hunter from another planet? Prince's secret weapon, he explains, is none other than Spotify.

"One thing I started doing a few weeks in was listening to a lot of music - it's always been easy for me to listen to a song and take the emotion out of it," Prince says. "This one's angry, this one's sad. So I've been doing that. I have a playlist on my phone, on my Spotify, and it has a lot of videogame music. Foo Fighters. Pumped up, angry - I called [the playlist] Destroy. I have a lot of stuff from the God Of War games, because that character's a big inspiration for me. The main character of that game is Kratos - this big, tall warrior. He's very similar to what the Predator creature is, in my mind, so I use him as a reference and inspiration."

All that parkour, meanwhile, will go towards creating a more agile Predator than we've seen in previous movies. Sure, the monster in the Schwarzenegger classic could lurk in trees and move swiftly, but the 2018 Predator, Prince says, will be far more fleet-footed.

"This creature's a lot more mobile. In the other films, they'd move, for sure, but a lot of the times, in the first one, there wasn't a lot of agile movement. So with this one, for me, they're throwing me through things, I'm fighting, slashing. One of the things I had in mind was for the creature to look heavy, to look big, but also to be very mobile - kind of like a lion. A big creature... or a bear. You see one running at you, and you're like, Oh damn."

Once the camera operators have caught the take, a crew member rushes in with those mirrored ball things that visual effects use to add CG elements to the sequence in post-production. First a mirrored ball is lowered in front of the camera, then a matt one, then a third one textured after the Predator’s skin: that pale, mottled grey with an amphibious, sticky sheen. Finally a prop arm is lowered into view; it’s unmistakably a Predator arm, but huge even by the alien hunter’s standards. Could it be that The Predator of the title isn’t a guy in a suit like the others, but a much bigger one brought to life with CGI? The occasional mention of a "10-foot mutha" certainly suggests that he will be.

10 foot tall Predator could be awesome, or go wrong depending on the execution! Still, I believe in Shane Black!

 

[MadVillainy]

edit: wrong thread

 

[TheVileOne]

I don't believe in Shane Black. He's a human being. He's not some immortal superhero.

 

[MadVillainy]

I don't believe in Shane Black. He's a human being. He's not some immortal superhero.

ok...

 

[Pennywise]

I am very weary on the kid with Autism having the ability to understand the Yautja language, though!