Stick Around: The Predator 4 Script Is Finished

[Bobular]

I would love to see this movie being a predator gets onto a colonial marine ship in transit somewhere, wakes them all up from sleep, maybe after brutally killing a synthetic watching over them, gives them some time to get up wonder whats going on and then start picking them off one by one.

Best way this movie could end would be with the ship arriving at its destination, when people go to investigate all they find are the entire crew skinned and hanging from the roof in one room, with no sign what caused it.

 

[ExileNZ]

Predator 2 was my first (I was 8), so it still has a special place in my heart.

Completely different style of film to the first one, though. Very concrete-jungle aesthetic though, and it came across as a lot less action-y and a lot more spooky. It was basically a horror flick that happened to star an alien.

In any case, looking forward to this one. Do I think it'll be fantastic? Probably not. But I like me some predators and I even enjoyed the much-maligned AvP movies, so as far as I'm concerned it's all good.

 

[Naldan]

Not holding my breath for this to be released.

Why? The qualities of the different Predator (and Alien) movies have differed greatly over the years, but they've always remained profitable.

Somehow, I assume any franchise I like to be in developement hell by default. You might be right, though.

 

[TheVampwizimp_v1legacy]

I have no idea how or why Topher Grace keeps getting roles. Everything he is in, including That 70s Show would be better without him.

Uh, incorrect! He was fine on that 70s show, even quite good. In fact, we don't even have to wonder if the show would have been better without him, since we got exactly that in the last season, and it was atrocious.

OT, wait, Hawkins directed the best Iron Man film? Had no idea, my interest level has gone up a few notches.

 

[voltair27]

Who would we get to face off against the Predator though? The first movie had Bill Duke, Jesse Ventura, Carl Weathers, Sonny Landham, and Arnold Schwarzenegger at peak physical condition. You couldn't dream of a better cast of action heroes. After you have the Predator go head to head with 80's Arnie, you can only go downhill from there.

Maybe if they went for a super gritty survivalist take as opposed to an action movie. No muscle-bound action star, no guns, no shoulder-mounted plasma cannon, or optic camo, not even any wristblades. Strip the franchise of all that, and just have a "normal" unarmed tough guy (Karl Urban, Oscar Isaac) versus an unarmed Predator in a lethal game of hide-'n-seek in a dark, dank jungle.

My idea was actually a lot more like Saw meets Predators. Get some sort of big name action actors (like Danny Trejo or Karl Urban) and some b-list or new actors and have the movies mostly focus on the desperation of trying to survive against a predator hunting you or focus on how awesome the Predator is when it outsmarts and out techs the humans. For variation you change up the location with every movie, so that one is a jungle, another an abandoned mine site, a sub urb etc. As you said, trying to go down the action route is pretty pointless since the first movie had an all-star cast of action heroes of a caliber that doesn't exist anymore.

That was literally Predators. Adrien Brody, Danny Trejo and Laurence Fishburne were in it too.

 

[Ihateregistering1]

I sort of get some of the hate for Predator 2. I agree that Danny Glover was a pretty weird choice for being a bad-ass action hero (even in Lethal Weapon he was basically just the everyman to be juxtaposed next to nutball Riggs), it definitely had more of a pure-action feel than the suspenseful 'we're being hunted' feel of Predator, and obviously moving it to the city was weird for some.

Still, I found it entertaining, and I don't think anyone can deny how much of what it added to the Predators basically became canon. The spear, the disc blade, the net launcher, the ability to see in different light spectrums, the establishment that the Predators had been hunting for 1000's of years (and of course the hint that "Alien vs. Predator" was on it's way).

 

[flying_whimsy]

Man, I loved Predator 2; always thought it was the best of the series. Hated predators and both avp movies: they were too keen on making the predator into a hero and they added that bigger, badder race of predators for no reason (not to mention how stupid the whole predators have been breeding aliens on earth for centuries thing). The things are big game hunters with a vague bit of honor regarding their prey, that's all.

I hope predator 4 isn't a dud.