Shane Black Directing Predator Sequel! - Part 2

[DarkKnight88]

Creative Head: "John, you're head of our creature design, any suggestions?"
John: "How about we (re)introduce those Hounds from the Predators film?"
Creative Head: "Predator didn't have any hounds."
Paul: "No, the third Predator film."
Creative Head: "Alien vs Predator?"
Paul: "No, Predators, the third movie. You know...Adrian Brody?"
Creative Head: "...The Pianist?"
John: "The...never mind."
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Fixed.

 

[CJ]

Looks good, but it would've been nice to have a direct sequel to Predators.

 

[TheVileOne]

I don't think Shane Black is too worried about servicing continuity of the other films.

 

[Marvolo]

Kinda surprised Black's gone so CG with a lot of this stuff, gotta say.

I'm sure he used a lot of practical fx but its standard practice to paint over and touch up a lot of it these days. The MCU does it a lot. The practical is sort of a base line and a tool for the actors and the vfx animators. And Shane proved with Iron Man 3 that he will go wild with cgi if the budget is high enough.

 

[Lone]

I never realized that Predators don't have nipples.

They ain’t got time for nipples.

 

[Marvolo]

Based on this film, Predators engineer their bodies. I assume it's similar to what the Kryptonians did in Zack Snyder's Man of Steel. They probably dont think their warriors and hunters need nipples, because they probably dont procreate. Procreation and nursing young is probably done by others of their species. Perhaps a specific caste in their society.

 

[Aximili86]

Do we know if it's that broad, though? All predators do it, and this "upgrade" guy is only huge due to whatever particular unique experimentation he's done on himself? Or is it more a situation where the regular predators we've seen so far don't do any gene-splicing at all, and this new guy's some sub-class socially, different clan or job/function within the society or whatever?

It would be a little weird if Shane's trying to say all predators do the experimenting on themselves, given how pretty-much uniform they've been so far (aside from the big bulky football-player preds in the first AvP).

Guess there are people out there who've already seen test screenings that could clear it up, it's fun just speculating on it though. But I hope Black actually does get into it a little, the explanation's more than just a throwaway line about this guy's injected himself in the butt with some space-elephant sample or something.

Still sort of hoping the big dude's the "good guy" predator, some sort of cop hunting down the regular dudes who've gone rogue and started collaborating with humanity's black-ops groups and stuff. Starting to think that won't be the case though.

 

[StarLord]

 

[Aximili86]

Wonder if that's actually the first POV-shot/heat-vision from the "upgrade" predator, or more just some new fictional nightvision goggle thing from the soldiers? You'd figure it's the pred, but looks pretty different to the original guys' vision, could just be edited to look like it.

 

[Verbal21]

“Ultimate Predators”. So there’s more of them?

 

[Aximili86]

That's probably just Brown's character explaining what they are more generally to the soldiers or someone else not in the know. Same way you'd refer to crocodiles or great white sharks as "ultimate predators". Doubt there's any more than one big dude.

 

[Schlosser85]

This just isn't changing my mind about looking watered down and PG-13.

 

[Galactus123]

This movie doesn't look very good. I hope it has the theme music at least.

 

[Aximili86]

Schlosser, it looks way more in-line with the first two (and Predators) violence-wise than AvP, I don't think you have to worry about that side of things. Pretty clearly it's not going to be PG-13.

And like, when's Black ever shyed away from that type of thing (outside of the MCU with Iron Man, of course)? Whether the movie's good or not is anyone's guess, but it ain't going to be tame. You'll get your bloodlust with a Black + Predator combination, there'll be lots more stuff like that blade in the red-band trailer.

 

[Deck Rickard]

Something about this just looks... off. I think the characters all look fun and cool but the movie itself just seems generic. Like, "You think you've seen Predators before? Well, get ready for 20-foot Predators!" I don't know. I believe in Black but he also made what might be the least rewatchable Marvel movie so he's not infallible.

 

[Aximili86]

Ehh, IM3's the second-best MCU flick for me, twist and all (yeah, over IW, I'll fight ya ).

That being said, I get being lukewarm on the stuff we've seen so far here. I hate the bigger-badder-meaner "extreeeeeme duuuudes" predator on a conceptual level too.

But I dunno, yet to dislike a Black-directed (or even most of his scripted-only) movie, so sort of operating on benefit-of-the-doubt here. All going to be in the execution, make-or-break.

 

[Moridin]

This just isn't changing my mind about looking watered down and PG-13.

It's officially R-Rated. Fox are mucking up the marketing.


EDIT: What the F*** is up with these new forums?

 

[Verbal21]

EDIT: What the F*** is up with these new forums?

Yeah, what happened here?

 

[Hunter Rider]

 

[MOVIELORD101]

New Red Band trailer's out, btw. It looks bad-ass.

Sadly I can't post link due to forum regulations.

 

[Moridin]

Yeah, that looks really good.

 

[#root]

That red band trailer looks fun .

 

[Sithborg]

Yeah, that red-band trailer is much, much better than the others. I like that Holbrecks' character already survived one predator.

 

[Teelie]

That trailer was a marked improvement on the past ones.

 

[BeserkerHilf]

It's really jarring how CGI these Super-Predators are. Their movements lack any weight.