Shane Black Directing Predator Sequel!

[MadVillainy]

Did anyone else enjoy Predators? I enjoyed that one a lot.

I did too

And, no exaggeration, it has one of my top 5 opening scenes of a movie ever.

 

[Neno_Kos]

If my memory serves me well there is only one Predator movie. I dont know what you are talking about.

 

[Doctor Jones]

Shane Black throwing the Predator in the suburbs is gonna be a lot of damn fun.

Pretty much the complete opposite of Requiem. I tried watching it last night. I couldn't get to twenty minutes.

 

[Octoberist]

It's weird because I'm trying to think how they can contain the situation. Maybe there's a riot going on in the city, and the suburbs is next. That way there's so much chaos that the Predator can be undetected when he does his thing.

 

[The Chris]

I'm curious as to why the Predator would be hunting im a suburb in the first place, but a riot isn't a bad idea.

 

[dude stannis]

Did anyone else enjoy Predators? I enjoyed that one a lot.

I did, for sure.

Shane Black throwing the Predator in the suburbs is gonna be a lot of damn fun.

Pretty much the complete opposite of Requiem. I tried watching it last night. I couldn't get to twenty minutes.

I detest Requiem as much as one can detest a movie. It's literally my most hated film of all time.

As for Shane Black and Fred Dekker in the suburbs, this rings to mind their script Shadow Company which also takes place in the suburbs. The vibe you can expe, should that be any indication, is very John Carpenter, think The Fog, Halloween, They Live, In The Mouth of Madness.

 

[lime]

If this is yet another low budget Predator I will write it off right now.

In today's Hollywood a ''blockbuster'' with 40 million budget (Predators) is laughable.

If this movie once again receives such budget than we are set for another crap.

40 million. simple dramas get such budgets.

Any news on the budget?

 

[dude stannis]

Should be $120 million according to Black. Not that your thinking isn't wrong headed to the extreme or anything.

 

[lime]

Should be $120 million according to Black. Not that your thinking isn't wrong headed to the extreme or anything.

Oh, mine is just one man opinion. But I also use facts. 40-50 million for a blockbuster is laughable. With that kind of budget we get bad looking movies.

Production value is important for such genre movies.

But 120 million is a good budget. Let's hope for the best.

 

[dude stannis]

The budget of the first would be $30-$40 million in todays currency.

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

Did anyone else enjoy Predators? I enjoyed that one a lot.

I enjoyed it a lot also, better than Predator 2 for me and I liked the civil war aspect they introduced between the 2 Predator factions/species.

Suburbia does not sound like a Predator movie location to me. But we will see, and Minn is hot so glad she is in this.

 

[Greens]

Predator 2 was a dull piece of ****. Predators was okay.

 

[elgaz]

It's weird because I'm trying to think how they can contain the situation. Maybe there's a riot going on in the city, and the suburbs is next. That way there's so much chaos that the Predator can be undetected when he does his thing.

Think I've figured it out. The entire movie will be set in a suburban Walmart store on Black Friday.

 

[elgaz]

Predator 2 was a dull piece of ****. Predators was okay.

Rewatched Predator 2 last week. I mean, it's nowhere near as bad as the later AvP stuff but yeah, after the original film it's a little bit dull - they could have done so much more with the LA setting.

And Danny Glover ........... I like him as an actor but he just seemed like a step down after having larger-than-life Arnold Schwarzenegger taking on the Predator. He's more softly spoken, doesn't have the same physical presence (despite being pretty tall) as Arnold and his character was scared of heights. Meh.

One thing I loved about Pred 1 & Pred 2 which rarely gets mentioned was the actor behind the Predators themselves - Kevin Peter Hall. He was the one who came up with the lithe, panther-like movements of the Predator when it's facing off against someone, the powerful leaps it makes and the sense of supreme (and aggressive) confidence it gives off via its physicality. Lots of other similar films just had generic insect-like aliens who stumble around.

The Predator has become a very unique and iconic cinematic villain and that owes as much to the character he injected into it, as it does to the actual look of the Predator as conceived by Stan Winston.

 

[lime]

I like Predator 2 more than the first. But I know I'm in minority.

Do we know when filming for this movie is starting.

 

[dude stannis]

February.

 

[Manofplastic]

I like the predator movies, but Predator 1 obviously is better because it was the all-beginning. Predator 2 was a good follow-up story but i must admit that i rewatched the both of them a while ago and it's worn on me.

Predators was really cool, but some stuff i just didn't like. The 'superpredator' for example. The 'live' de-boning of the convict i didnt enjoy either. it was good, but thats about it.

AVP movies were a franchise mashup not good at all. it was only visually fun to see a predator and an alien again with modern technology, but that's where it ended. requim was horrible and bs. the predalien was a huge fail. there was potential for a cool species, but it was absolutely lacking and the mouth reguriting was stupid, dumb and not cool.

 

[-JKR-]

Predator wasn't just better because it was the beginning. It was better because it had a tight script, John McTiernan at the top of his game directing and a memorable cast.

 

[Iron_Stark]

Olivia Munn?? Well there goes the streak that the Predator movies had of casting a Latina actress in the lead role.

I don't know what to think about this, it IS Shane Black, but the suburbs reminds me of Requiem.

 

[Manofplastic]

nah men.

Predz are drawn to heat.

http://www.curbed.com/2016/7/25/12273144/california-wildfires-suburban-sprawl

Suburbia Is Fueling More Dangerous Wildfires

 

[Moridin]

I'm curious as to why the Predator would be hunting im a suburb in the first place, but a riot isn't a bad idea.

He's hunting the most dangerous creature in the galaxy...... soccer moms.

Think I've figured it out. The entire movie will be set in a suburban Walmart store on Black Friday.

Film ends with the Predator balled up in a corner of the store, in the fetus position, rocking back and forth, so traumatised by the chaos around him he can't even blow himself up. A soccer mom spots him and grabs him, thinking he's a big toy. He spends the rest of his days as little Timmy's plaything.

 

[Loki882]

I like all three Predator movies myself. The first one is obviously the best. But the others are decent. I also like that Danny Glover wasn't as "larger than life" as The Brawny Man. That was kind of the point I think, a new kind of challenge for the Predator. And Predators, had a really cool premise and a nice cast.

As for the suburbs thing, I could see a scenario where maybe whomever the Predator is hunting heads to suburbia, the Predator follows him/her there, and then chaos ensues.

 

[Nathan]

One thing I loved about Pred 1 & Pred 2 which rarely gets mentioned was the actor behind the Predators themselves - Kevin Peter Hall. He was the one who came up with the lithe, panther-like movements of the Predator when it's facing off against someone, the powerful leaps it makes and the sense of supreme (and aggressive) confidence it gives off via its physicality. Lots of other similar films just had generic insect-like aliens who stumble around.

The Predator has become a very unique and iconic cinematic villain and that owes as much to the character he injected into it, as it does to the actual look of the Predator as conceived by Stan Winston.

That's one of the reason I do not like Predators. Without someone like Kevin Peter Hall in the suit, they had no personality whatsoever. They were nothing more than generic movie monsters. It's why I can still enjoy AvP:R to a degree, because I thought Ian Whyte did a great job following in Hall's footsteps.

 

[Octoberist]

Olivia Munn?? Well there goes the streak that the Predator movies had of casting a Latina actress in the lead role.

I don't know what to think about this, it IS Shane Black, but the suburbs reminds me of Requiem.

Maybe she's the next wave of actresses of Asian ancestry as the lead in future movies.

 

[elgaz]

That's one of the reason I do not like Predators. Without someone like Kevin Peter Hall in the suit, they had no personality whatsoever. They were nothing more than generic movie monsters. It's why I can still enjoy AvP:R to a degree, because I thought Ian Whyte did a great job following in Hall's footsteps.

I didn't enjoy AvP:R but I can appreciate what Whyte did. The Predator doesn't really speak, so the only way to convey the character is via movement and the motions it makes.