The Predator (reboot)

Slydice

Considering this is a predator film, there's something off putting about the look of em.

They all look so... clean.

Gabba Gabba Hey

Ah it's just because it's a promo shot. Wouldn't read too much into that.

Burgo

Slydice wrote: »

Considering this is a predator film, there's something off putting about the look of em.

They all look so... clean.

Well their physique is nothing like the line-up in Predator, I mean in body mass alone..

connollys

Skerries wrote: »

kid actors are mostly f*cking annoying...mostly

if I could like this twice I would

Stone Deaf 4evr

Funnily enough, I've enjoyed all 3 of the solo predator movies, they all pretty much stand on their own, and it doesnt trouble me too much if they dont have any narrative continutity or crossover characters, part of the attraction is seeing the group dynamic and how they adapt to being hunted. Predators was unique in how it took a mixed ensemble of killers and dropped them on an alien world.
Don't get me started on that Alien V Predator sh1te though.

Agent Coulson

Theon Greyjoy (Alfie Allen)joins the cast.

Gabba Gabba Hey

Yvonne Strahovski has joined the cast too.

Dave_The_Sheep

Slydice wrote: »

Considering this is a predator film, there's something off putting about the look of em.

They all look so... clean.

My thought as well... and they look quite ... young. Ish anyway. Hard to take seriously.

Also, please, no children.

The Black Oil

Pushed back. http://screenrant.com/shane-black-predator-release-date-august-2018/

https://twitter.com/ERCboxoffice/status/855869286966976512

The Black Oil

More on the above.

https://twitter.com/BonafideBlack/status/856213904644616192
https://twitter.com/MrHreviews/status/856232789850673159
https://twitter.com/BonafideBlack/status/856234884012093440

Agent Coulson

https://twitter.com/JacobTremblay/status/870368501797593088?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.indiewire.com%2F2017%2F06%2Fshane-black-the-predator-finishes-filming-jacob-tremblay-1201836998%2F

Frank Bullitt

They are filming it around Vancouver, I haven't seen anything yet though, if I do will let you guys know!

Slydice

Grateful Dread

Pushed back again. Scheduled to release on 14th September 2018 now. I thought I should clarify the year given the release date fiasco so far!

Iseedeadpixels

Calling it now that kid is going to get scared run around screaming and get one of them killed as he tries to calm him :pac:

Agent Coulson

I expect this to be said at least once.

Slydice

Iseedeadpixels wrote: »

Calling it now that kid is going to get scared run around screaming and get one of them killed as he tries to calm him :pac:

I dunno..

with Jacob Tremblay he might be anything..

he might kill the Predator

He might BE THE PREDATOR :eek:

Hande hoche!

Slydice wrote: »

I dunno..

with Jacob Tremblay he might be anything..

he might kill the Predator

He might BE THE PREDATOR :eek:

Would be a different twist, if he was the real baddie.

SirLemonhead

Agent Coulson wrote: »

I expect this to be said at least once.

Lets hope not!

Slydice

SirLemonhead wrote: »

Lets hope not!

Ah here! Coulson just wants some candy!

Slydice

I'm not seeing anything obvious except that green glowing bit kinda to the right down in the lower middle
https://twitter.com/BonafideBlack/status/979836525428072448

Cantona's Collars

Slydice wrote: »

I'm not seeing anything obvious except that green glowing bit kinda to the right down in the lower middle
https://twitter.com/BonafideBlack/status/979836525428072448

Bottom right beside the blue light.

Slydice

hrrmmm

conorhal

Iseedeadpixels wrote: »

Calling it now that kid is going to get scared run around screaming and get one of them killed as he tries to calm him :pac:

It's Shane Black, so we'll inevitably get the same kid that appears in every Shane Black movie. A smart mouthed, overly self aware kid who sounds like a minature Shane Black and acts as a redemptive arc for whichever character in the film is cast as his down at heal troubled father struggling to form a relationship with his son.
Sometimes it feels like Black has been rewriting the same script since The Last Boyscout and the inclusion of a kid in a Predator movie doesn't suggest he's likely to be breaking that pattern any time soon.

EoinMcLovin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPI9E-wNK8s

Slydice

Slydice wrote: »

I dunno..

with Jacob Tremblay he might be anything..

he might kill the Predator

He might BE THE PREDATOR :eek:

Considering doubling down on this!

Agent Coulson

The first thing I thought when watched that was the kid from Iron Man 3.

Is it really a Shane Black film if it doesn't take place at Christmas?

SimonTemplar

I hate this modern trend of having a rapid number of clips at the beginning of a trailer. It is like a trailer for a trailer. It serves no purpose.

flatty

Mickeroo wrote: »

MisterAnarchy wrote: »

What about Iron Man 3 ,that was a terrible film.

I respectfully disagree.

I respectfully agree with the op.

Ipso

Hmm. Remind anyone else of AvP 2?

Slydice

Ipso wrote: »

Hmm. Remind anyone else of AvP 2?

Yeah, the colours and the suburb feeling.

Wonder if they'll hat-tip the soldiers in camo

mloc123

Hmmm, no sold on that trailer. Predator films work best when people are being hunted in isolation... this looks more like a Godzilla type set.. army vs predator

SimonTemplar

Ipso wrote: »

Hmm. Remind anyone else of AvP 2?

Reminded me of ET - Suburban American cul-de-sac at Halloween, Kid playing with his toys.

Mickeroo

flatty wrote: »

I respectfully agree with the op.

I stand by my post from 4 years ago. :pac:

Stone Deaf 4evr

If its one thing I hate, its when genuinely scary creatures are getting 'upgraded' for no reason only to make them more scary. It usually just makes them seem more far fetched. If you cant make a 7 foot tall invisible killing machine menacing, then you're doing something wrong.

see also - jurassic park and their hybrid dinosaurs.

Hector Savage

Hybridization .... jesus christ.

Looks awful for that alone... what made the first Predator good ?

the simple hunt.
Isolation.

each team member being picked off ... then the ultimate 1v1 in the middle of nowhere.

This could be worse then Predators (which wasn't that that that bad..)

helimachoptor

Hector Savage wrote: »

Hybridization .... jesus christ.

Looks awful for that alone... what made the first Predator good ?

the simple hunt.
Isolation.

each team member being picked off ... then the ultimate 1v1 in the middle of nowhere.

This could be worse then Predators (which wasn't that that that bad..)

the more i hear of this.. the more i think AVP may actually turn out better

Hector Savage

helimachoptor wrote: »

the more i hear of this.. the more i think AVP may actually turn out better

They are making a new AVP ???

or you mean when comparing current versions after release ?

Iseedeadpixels

the universe's most lethal hunters are stronger, smarter and deadlier than ever before, having genetically upgraded themselves with DNA from other species.

From IMDB, could this "genetic upgrade" be attached to the Predators movie with the 2 different types of predator?

Hector Savage

Iseedeadpixels wrote: »

From IMDB, could this "genetic upgrade" be attached to the Predators movie with the 2 different types of predator?

2 different types of Predator ?

Slydice

Yep. It's part of Predators.

This one is set before Predators:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Predator_(film)

It is the fourth (chronologically, the third) installment in the Predator film series, set to take place between Predator 2 (1990) and Predators (2010).

Hector Savage

I thought this was a reboot ... hmmm ... I wonder will Arnie make a cameo ??

HandsomeBob

Jesus, that last film was in 2010? This hasn't been a good decade for me. :pac:

Black clearly taking some risky choices with the franchise going by that trailer. Hopefully it pays off.

Goodshape

None of these films have actually been good except the first one though, have they?

And the first one isn't really anything you can replicate. A great (or at least well placed) performance from Schwarzenegger and an unknown director who luckily turned out to be John McTiernan. The plot is pretty simple. The characters and world are barely fleshed out at all. But, it all just clicked into place and was a hellofalot of fun.

But despite a cool looking suit, the baddie is just... well, it's really nothing except a cool suit. The more you expand on that the less interesting it becomes.

You can't really make a sequel to the original Predator. Best you can do is just a different film which also has a killer alien in a cool suit.


Might be fun, but "sequel to Predator" or "Predator franchise" doesn't really offer any hope, or anything to go on at all really.

CatFromHue

I liked Predator 2

Stone Deaf 4evr

CatFromHue wrote: »

I liked Predator 2

Me too, I also genuinely enjoyed predators as well. I like the idea of the predator as both a relentless killing machine, but also a sort of noble hunter. Its been a long time since I saw AvP , but if I remember, the predator and a human made an alliance to take down the xenomorph?

Bacchus

Predator 2 is decent with the change of setting. Predators is a very enjoyable movie, and while it could never hope to capture the 80s magic and lacked Arnie, its not far behind Predator in rewatchability (for me).

Hande hoche!

I give Predator 2 a lot of credit for mixing it up. Cops instead of commandos, urban setting instead of the jungle and expanding on the predators. Also Gary Busey was inspired casting.

Ipso

Hande hoche! wrote: »

I give Predator 2 a lot of credit for mixing it up. Cops instead of commandos, urban setting instead of the jungle and expanding on the predators. Also Gary Busey was inspired casting.

I wonder what kind of setting would be good, maybe the dessert (middle east, Mexico narco territory). It plays into the heat and conflict idea.