Amph In Town With a Few Days to Kill: The Prey-dator Discussion Thread

I really hope that remains just behind the scenes shenanigans and doesn't make it to the film, as that photo illustrates the potential cheesiness.

Either way, I'll end up watching this film one way or another like the previous Predator related films.

 

Sorry to break the news, but the script was leaked and that is legit.

 

BOOOOOOOOOOO!

 

I just saw the trailer for this. I'm so sick of hearing people say lines about information being above someone's "pay grade," especially as trailer fodder. Enough.

 

That's where you draw the line?

 

The whole plot of Lex teaming up with Scar was borrowed from the first mini-series, only with a different character named Machiko. She would later join up with the Predators after it was all over and trained with them until she turns on them in a later storyline. Then both the Predators and the Colonial Marines team up against a rogue clan of Predators who have trained the Aliens to be their hunting dogs. "Batman vs Predator 2" has two Predators chasing after a rogue Predator who is going after Batman. The rogue kills one of the Predators and the other sacrifices his life to destroy the rogue's ship. "Superman/Batman vs Aliens/Predator" features the "World's Finest" team working to help a group of stranded Predators get back to their home world, while battling a number of Aliens. There were also a series of stories involving the characters from "Witchblade" and "The Darkness" encountering both creatures. I'm not sure if they teamed with the Predators or not.

 

I really wish I was feeling this. A Shane Black written/directed Predator film sounded like an absolute slam dunk on paper, but this new trailer doesn't encourage me much more than the first teaser did.

 

I'm sure Fox is cutting the Shane Black quirkness way down in the ads and going more for action sci-fi monster horror which, even if you're as idiosyncratic as a filmmaker as Shane Black, making a Predator movie it's pretty easy to make that type of trailer despite what the tone actually is

 

Just saw that they reshot the entire 3rd act and the friendlys have been cut.

 

I didn't like the look of the Teaser It just looked really cheesy. But after seeing the first full trailer for this I am super stoked It looks like it is on a level with the original and dare I say the best Predator movie since the original! I know different film but same realm I really Liked Prometheus and Alien Covenant and Blade Runner 2049 and I know different film but same Director as Alien Ridley Scott I really liked The Martian. I think you could put all those moves together somehow...

 

First of all, I'm surprised by the news that Shane Black is supposedly redoing the entire third act and getting rid of the "friendly Predator." It would make sense to have the film's third act take place in the forest, especially if the film is trying to cash in on the nostalgia factor.

I really do hope the "friendly Predator" thing goes away and doesn't make it into the final cut. It creates a cheesy tone and pretty much eliminates the horror and terrifying aspect of the Predator.

 

cast of predator was on conan last night, pretty quipping rabble rousing bunch at least! And Jake Busey is definitely playing the son of Gary Busey's character from Predator 2. (told a funny story how Gary Busey was wearing the sliver speckly outfit when he visited the set as a kid and Gary said "this is what everyone will be wearing in 1997!")

 

I'm liking the poster. I haven't been on here in a good while, but to quickly catch up, I am interested to see how much change went into the reshoots, and also a rumour i heard had me wondering about about if AVP is in the Predator film continuity.

 

So I’m hearing that this movie will include a female Predator

 

That's true and a good point.

 

Factoid time! highest grossing movie of the Predator series is

https://www.boxofficemojo.com/franchises/chart/?id=predator.htm

2004 Alien Vs Predator at 172 million worldwide. Even 2010's Predators fell short! Behind both AvP movies!

But the worldwide box office is a rather different beast even than it was in 2010 with Predators. So maybe this'll pull Alien Covenant numbers (74 mil North America 166 overseas for 240 worldwide). Most I can see it doing. Maybe a bit more, it HAS been quite a while since we've seen a Predator movie.

 

I heard that was a video clip played at the SDCC panel that featured Olivia Munn...

Spoiler

sleeping in bed with the mercenaries(?) standing around her to see which one of the items she would grab that they placed around her once that startled her awake, to which many believe this was tone deaf to the realities of the "me too" movements.

Additionally, the other footage played didn't do anything to generate any buzz for the film's release.

 

So is anyone here worried about the future of predator and alien franchises once Disney owns them?