New Predator Movie

A reboot isn't a bad idea. Predator 2 had....issues with characterization. Predator was "Jaws In the Jungle with the Predator as the shark.

The child actor worries me a bit, I don't want no Jar-Jar type in the story. However, it would be amusing as the characters think the kid is The Load and the Predator is all "Why are they carrying one of their young?"

By Predator logic there'd be a legitimate reason for the kid not to be killed within the first ten minutes, at least. It's an established part of the Predator ethos that they don't kill defenseless targets because that's unsportsmanlike. So presumably a Predator would completely ignore the kid and aim for the adults.

And that's why I find it amusing.

Now a Predator in the modern age, there are few Acceptable Targets. However I could see:

• Civil War era Predator, with Southern Units as the Jerk Ass Victim.

• Roaring 20's era Predator.

• World War Two, Korean War, Vietnam War era Predator movies.

Rogue Predators would most likely have no problems targeting children, though.

Per The Other Wiki:

Wonder what brings them to the 'burbs?

The kid is such a load that the Predator considers killing him first a humane act towards the rest of the human cast

I don't know, this is a Shane black film, so I expect the kid to be the best part of the entire film. I half expect the kid to be the final girl.

The first trailer just dropped:

Never seen any Predator movies before, but holy crap...

By the way, something I thought about just now. If the Disney/Fox deal goes through, what are the odds that Disney (under a mature sub-brand, obviously) will want to try Alien vs. Predator somewhere down the line (after re-establishing Alien, since Alien: Covenant wasn't that big a smash, obvioulsy)?

edited 10th May '18 10:23:16 AM by TargetmasterJoe

Looks very PG-13. Is there going to be a Red Banned trailer, or has a rating not been announced yet?

The director/writer has gone on record as saying it will be R-rated. Whether the money men are going to let him do that or edit it down remains to be seen IIRC.

Well the last few Alien/Predator films have been R-rated.

I supposed Shane Black is known for his more offbeat dialogue and character moments, but the trailer didn't really impress me. It's kind of odd for a trailer to a Predator film to juxtapose a child playing with a toy with an alien ship crashing. I don't really get the plot or who the characters are, and the few shots of the actual Predator seem oddly clean and perfectly lit. It should be obvious by now that just showing a Predator in a trailer isn't enough to make it a success.

Honestly, I want them to take bold steps and controversial decisions. This would require an amazing child actor, but center the movie around the child and make it his journey of growth or 'loss of innocence' during this climatic struggle against the Predator. Where everyone he's ever loved is being killed off and he needs to resort to kill or be killed mentality and when he actually outwits and kills the predator by both luck and wit by the knowledge and advice of all the adults around him before they get killed off, the Predator will acknowledge that he is now 'a man' and laugh before setting a self-destruct sequence on himself, knowing that he has forever altered the boy's course for his life. In the end, the Predator wins either way. But alas, this sort of thing is frowned upon when dealing with young children in movies of this caliber. Yes, the boy would survive, but would he truly be the better for it?

Predators had the right idea - team of badasses up against a Predator. I wish they'd continued that storyline with a sequel that didn't such as much.

Or adapted the storyline from the comics with that woman who was so badass she actually joined the Predators.

I'm gonna have to partially disagree with you on Predators; while the idea of "put the humans on the Predator planet" was a nice idea, having them be a "Celebrity Cast" collection of killers who otherwise didn't know each other really truncated what little story there was even more. If the characters all don't like each other, it's gonna be hard for the audience to like anyone either (at most there might be a few people they hate more than the rest). As such, you don't really care when anyone dies.

The film was also really grey. And that's just awful.

Eh, I don't know. See to me the idea works because all this time the humans weren't prepared for the Predators. For once there's a bit of role reversal because the Predators just took the most dangerous humans they could find, rounded them up, and threw them onto a game planet.

Yeah the film was really gray and most of the cast didn't like each other. But I like the idea of assassins/mercenaries vs Predators. Heck, we got to see a Yakuza take on a Predator in a sword fight.

New and improved, Not-Entirely SFW trailer.

Link doesn't work with the new format.

I hope they fix the embeds soon.

Here.

Well it shows off almost too much. BUT it looks interesting and NOT TERRIBLE. Though seeing how much we see of the damn things, I'm concerned it'll be less "Stalking, hunting" predator and a straight action romp.

Not necessarily a bad thing, but the "unknown hunter" element is the driver I feel.

The movie's called The Predator, we've known who the hunter was since the second act of the first movie.

It turns out the Predator is actually a genetically-altered human.

True, but that's more preserving the "look" for the cast (Who may NOT know what it is) rather than some major glimpses in the trailer. WE know it's the Predator, of course. But just show some invisibility, or a wrist blade, or the three dots. Eh, personal thing.

It's why showing the Alien off in all the new Alien movies is counter-intuitive. The Alien works best when it's obscured, hidden, just flashes and glimpses. Giving us full HD views turns it into a CGI puppet and, whilst actiony and visceral isn't "scary".

The Predator was a horror action movie - this looks to be leaning more towards action. But I still like the look.

It can work, Aliens was an actionised sequel to Alien which was a horror.

https://io9.gizmodo.com/the-predator-director-shane-black-defends-hiring-a-regi-1828853155