Shane Black Directing Predator Sequel!

[Whiskey Tango]

Agreed and I think that is what it will be, I just don't see Black wasting his time doing a direct remake. I am hoping they set it somewhere snowy and mountainous!

I hope it is set online, with a group of young and intelligent message board posters engaged in a furious text battle with a wily and ancient Predator who knows all too well the ways of internet trollery!

 

[Hunter Rider]

I hope it is set online, with a group of young and intelligent message board posters engaged in a furious text battle with a wily and ancient Predator who knows all too well the ways of internet trollery!

You're on fire in this thread.

 

[Whiskey Tango]

But seriously, how to make a Predator movie somewhat fresh.

I'd set it during the American Civil War, or Dark Ages Europe. or OOOH! Predator in ancient Rome or Greece!

I would suggest the Old West but I'm saving that for a Cthulhu Mythos story I'll never get around to writing.

 

[Whiskey Tango]

You're on fire in this thread.

Sadly, there is no gif of a Predator typing his self destruct code into his pc after seeing Affleck cast as Batman, followed by a multitude of other pc's exploding around the globe.

But there should be because that would be awesome.

 

[Asr]

Another Pred movie had better damn well either be set at some point in history, because that would be awesome, or a space-travel future. I've had enough present-day or near-present-day Pred movies.

FOX seriously needs to amp the budget so we can get a proper futuristic Space Marines vs Preds dammit! And throw some Aliens in with that if they ever want to do another AvP movie.

And Bill Paxton needs to be in the movie so he can get offed by a Pred again, or maybe this time he can blow it away?

 

[jonathancrane]

I really enjoyed Predators and was looking forward to a sequel. Oh well. I'll still see it, but probably on rental.

 

[DA_Champion]

Iron Man fans insist that Shane Black is a good director, let's see what he can do with a more interesting character.

 

[Drz]

DA_Champ, what did you think of Iron Man 3?

I hope you've seen Kis Kiss Bang Bang tho!

 

[Octoberist]

Iron Man fans insist that Shane Black is a good director, let's see what he can do with a more interesting character.

Watch Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

 

[Lord]

Iron Man fans insist that Shane Black is a good director, let's see what he can do with a more interesting character.

Not realy, Iron Man fans insist he's the horrible director due to the Mandarin twist.

 

[Drz]

Not realy, Iron Man fans insist he's the horrible director due to the Mandarin twist.

But Marvel already retconned that and Marvel fans claim it was all part of the plan. t:t:t:t:t:t:t:

 

[DA_Champion]

I have not seen Kiss Kiss Bang Bang.

Iron Man 3 was the second worst theatre experience I had in 2013, it was a failure on several levels. The first five minutes in Switzerland were great, I was shocked at how good that was, but afterwards the movie just went downhill, it had too much nonsense.

The Mandarin switch was clever though. I like that.

 

[DA_Champion]

But Marvel already retconned that and Marvel fans claim it was all part of the plan. t:t:t:t:t:t:t:

I think it was really distasteful of Marvel to **** on one of their directors that way.

 

[-JKR-]

Iron Man 3 was great. The best blockbusters of 2013. The fans crying and tearing him down on the other side got boring and annoying very soon. Even though it was fun seeing them so blindly upset about something Shane Black was very open and willing to explain in discussions. He knew what he did with that twist, why he did it, and how it all ties in and respects (and at the same time reconstructs in a very smart way) into the comic book lore. It was a timely adaptation of not only the comic book character, but how he's perceived in today's society (even before the movie, HOW MANY people have you heard calling him a somewhat racist stereotype) and the similar 'characters' existing in today's real world. The twist didn't, in any way, make him a less threatening villain. It just deceived you in that you believed in the media (the guy on the TV) and the stereotype being the bigger threat, when in reality there is and could be other people behind it. Killian was the Mandarin. And they even put in lots of hints at that (his long haired-beard look in the video Tony finds on the server, etc.). And I LOVED the Extremis plot.

And after he delivered such a unique and subversive installment in the Marvel/Iron Man franchise, are you people really wondering about him simply making a remake of the first movie? First movie, which he was even involved with? This guy's got some tricks up his sleeve, I tell you. And amidst all that, I couldn't be more excited to see him re-team with Fred Dekker (who I'm glad is getting a chance in the biz again - despite RoboCop 3, he didn't deserve to be basically thrown out of Hollywood).

P.S.: I kinda wish he would've rather written & directed a new Die Hard, as well. That franchise needs some redemption. But maybe he was in talks for that (it was rumored), but didn't like what was on the plate.

 

[dark_b]

But Marvel already retconned that and Marvel fans claim it was all part of the plan. t:t:t:t:t:t:t:

i didnt watch the short movie. is there a new twist?

 

[dark_b]

maybe the new movie will be set at christmas? haha
http://www.imdb.com/list/ls051953803/

 

[-JKR-]

Basically, in the twist you find out there's another, real Mandarin, who's angry about Trevor Slattery taking his identity for Killian's propaganda. The short has a few fun elements, but boy was it dissapointing to see Marvel chicken out so soon...

 

[DA_Champion]

Iron Man 3 was great. The best blockbusters of 2013. The fans crying and tearing him down on the other side got boring and annoying very soon. Even though it was fun seeing them so blindly upset about something Shane Black was very open and willing to explain in discussions. He knew what he did with that twist, why he did it, and how it all ties in and respects (and at the same time reconstructs in a very smart way) into the comic book lore. It was a timely adaptation of not only the comic book character, but how he's perceived in today's society (even before the movie, HOW MANY people have you heard calling him a somewhat racist stereotype) and the similar 'characters' existing in today's real world. The twist didn't, in any way, make him a less threatening villain. It just deceived you in that you believed in the media (the guy on the TV) and the stereotype being the bigger threat, when in reality there is and could be other people behind it. Killian was the Mandarin. And they even put in lots of hints at that (his long haired-beard look in the video Tony finds on the server, etc.). And I LOVED the Extremis plot.

And after he delivered such a unique and subversive installment in the Marvel/Iron Man franchise, are you people really wondering about him simply making a remake of the first movie? First movie, which he was even involved with? This guy's got some tricks up his sleeve, I tell you. And amidst all that, I couldn't be more excited to see him re-team with Fred Dekker (who I'm glad is getting a chance in the biz again - despite RoboCop 3, he didn't deserve to be basically thrown out of Hollywood).

P.S.: I kinda wish he would've rather written & directed a new Die Hard, as well. That franchise needs some redemption. But maybe he was in talks for that (it was rumored), but didn't like what was on the plate.

I explicitly wrote that I found the mandarin switch clever, moreover, 99% of the people who saw IM3 had never heard of the mandarin prior to seeing the movie.

But keep railing against a straw man.

 

[-JKR-]

I explicitly wrote that I found the mandarin switch clever, moreover, 99% of the people who saw IM3 had never heard of the mandarin prior to seeing the movie.

But keep railing against a straw man.

Relax, my post wasn't directed at you. It really wasn't. It was simply my opinion on the general Iron Man 3 backlash (which pretty much is an internet-fanboy only thing) on the web.

 

[Drz]

i didnt watch the short movie. is there a new twist?

The comic book Mandarin exists and kidnaps the fake Mandarin because he was upset about the fake one.

Yes, it's like if Ras' al Ghul got upset about some phony and made something so embrassing as invading an US prison, just to get petty revenge on a nobody actor.

The twist makes the Mandarin worse, in an petty attempt to please the people who we're offended by IM3.

 

[NosfeRomas]

There is no point in arguing about Iron Man 3 with MARVEL-only fans.

As of Shane Black. He knows how to write solid scripts, i just don't like his writing. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang was genius and i love it but the rest of his resume was meh. Basically 1 or 1 and a half scripts that have been reworked over and over again till we get a newish movie.

I can see a Predator reboot doing well under his wing but i wouldn't be surprised if it turned into a throwback film that combined both P1 and P2 with tons of higher quality toiler humour that non americans don't really enjoy that much.

 

[Nathan]

I just hope they used the term reboot wrong in this case. There is no need to reboot anything. Predator has the perfect setup to make each movie a standalone experience. You have an alien Hunter, coming to earth to hunt worthy prey. You can choose the setting and even the time line, and none of it would have ever to connect. You can have the Predator hunt vikings in one Movie, and in the next we're in the far future, with the Predator hunting highly advanced military.

 

[Lord]

Well, the article also called Predators a reboot, so maybe what they're planning is more of another resurrection for the franchise.

 

[Nathan]

I hope that's the case. I want something entirely different. I don't just want a rehash of the first Movie, which Predators already basically was. Which was the main reason I was disappointed by it.

 

[NosfeRomas]

I feel the franchise has been polluted by all the mythology added in AvP and unfortunatelly in P2. It worked so well when the Predator was just a alien hunting for sport. Now it's a quasi lovecraftian thing with pyramids and rituals instead of just Predators and evolution and power. It was simple but it was super effective. I am in for expanding the mythos of a character but they did wrong. :/