How would you make a Predator movie?

[Bamboota]

I would cast Christian Bale....or Sam Worthington

Since thy seem to be in all the movies now a days.

 

[eighthsamurai]

I would cast Christian Bale....or Sam Worthington

Since thy seem to be in all the movies now a days.

good reasoning. sam worthington who has about as much charisma as a can of tuna fish should star in yet another remake and attempt to carry it. like watching mole man trying to carry comic book guy. not down with that choice at all.

i thought about bale, but too much shouty mcshoutface for me.

 

[Bamboota]

good reasoning. sam worthington who has about as much charisma as a can of tuna fish should star in yet another remake and attempt to carry it. like watching mole man trying to carry comic book guy. not down with that choice at all.

i thought about bale, but too much shouty mcshoutface for me.

@ "as much charisma as a can of tuna fish" and "shouty mcshoutface"


But they're like really hot!
Thats what matters.

 

[eighthsamurai]

@ "as much charisma as a can of tuna fish" and "shouty mcshoutface"


But they're like really hot!
Thats what matters.

ah i see. in that case, i'd like salma hayek in the next pred film. she doesn't have to fight them, she could just serve them tea and biscuits in a maid's outfit for 90 mins. i'd pay to see that.

 

[Bamboota]

ah i see. in that case, i'd like salma hayek in the next pred film. she doesn't have to fight them, she could just serve them tea and biscuits in a maid's outfit for 90 mins. i'd pay to see that.

Make sure that theres a **** shot.

 

[eighthsamurai]

Make sure that theres a **** shot.

no doubt there'll be more pred side **** on display anyway.... might as well!

 

[Bamboota]

no doubt there'll be more pred side **** on display anyway.... might as well!

 

[CREG Customs]

Would like to see the WWII setting.

I would like to see 2 things.

1st a Prequel showing what happened with Hopper and his men. Fanboys would get to see the Original Predator win at the end and a chance to rehash a good formula. Of course that wouldn't work now because of Predators trying to do the same thing (formula wise)

2nd, as much as I hated both AVP's I think it could still be an awesome flick.

To me the original AVP comics from Dark Horse are the best. The Preds send out a ship that lays eggs on a planet (not earth) to populate the local wildlife with aliens. The first issue has virtually no dialog and thats how it should open before the credits.

The animals impregnated with the aliens are part of a livestock herd that are kept by a small group of human farmers. The grown aliens start to show up and so do the preds and the people are in the middle like the rest of the 4 part comic.

The thing I would change is that I would have the Colonial Marines show up at the end for the sequel to capture one of each species for Weyland Industries after a distress signal/call is made by the farmers.

 

[fawk3s]

1st a Prequel showing what happened with Hopper and his men. Fanboys would get to see the Original Predator win at the end and a chance to rehash a good formula. Of course that wouldn't work now because of Predators trying to do the same thing (formula wise)

Wouldnt work. The predator used a different hunting method on them not unlike on Dutch´s team. Pretty much what P2 mostly did.
Billy described that they were shooting in all directions and didnt bother to ambush. They never left there.

 

[Biojex]

If I were a producer I'd read Jeff VanderMeer's Predator: South China Sea and I'd turn into a movie. Almost no need to change anything. It's simply the best Predator story I've ever read.

I agree, that was a really good book.

 

[prefused]

apparently the only way to make a predator movie is to not make it like a predator movie or else all of the fanboys will come on here and complain about it being like a predator movie.

trying to please the fans is how AVP and AVPR got made. both were just awful juvenile trash, even for a B-movie scifi franchise. ____ the fans. they got exactly what they asked for because they liked the ____ty comics and think Arnold is a real actor. think outside the box and do everything that would piss off the fans as much as possible and it's bound to be a great movie.

 

[PredatorFreak13]

This ended up longer than I thought but oh well.

If it were my I would start off my movie showing a predator slowly creeping up behind another and then killing it (to show it was a bad blood of sorts). Then it would switch to an elder predator who sees it through something like a security camera/satellite camera of sorts and in his room is a massive amount of trophy skulls so you know he is a hunter. As the elder and bystanders come out to kill the bad blood the bad blood would see the group running towards him and run away to his ship and fly away. The elder predator runs off on his own to a separate ship and chases the bad blood.

Then it would switch to show our main team of heroes who are on a mission deep in the jungle, and to summarize it all quickly - this mission would show how great they are at their jobs and how the characters react/how they are around each other. Once their mission is successful they head back to their base.

The the 'bad blood' passes over earth and drops out with the predator pod system (I'm not sure what it's called but you know what I'm talking about). He lands in a jungle near a military base and and he is found by a military patrol force who attack the 'bad blood' and kills everyone who attacks him. Moments later the elder predator lands from his ship slightly further away from his base. He uses his wrist pad to locate the 'bad bloods' pod and he goes to clean it up/disintegrate it. (I know it's from AVPR but the Elder is trying to 1. Maintain secrecy of the predator race and 2. Kill the 'bad blood').

But before the Elder can get there our team of heroes come across the transport pod and question at what it is and report it to base. The military plans to pick it up to see what it is. After guarding this pod a while a petrol unit meets them and agrees to take over guarding this strange object for them (they realize they are coming back from a mission and are tired). It would then show our heroes leaving to base. It would cut a small convoy of 2-3 trucks who are heading out to the pod when they unfortunately run into the ‘bad blood’. The first two trucks are completely destroyed and the third one is flipped (the ‘bad blood’ shoots their front wheels with plasma or something). Several survivors crawl out of the flipped humvee but are killed by the plasma caster of the ‘bad blood’. The predator quickly leaves and continues running from the elder predator.

After the predator leaves a severely injured soldier crawls out of the flipped humvee who has broken several bones in body and is unable to walk he is crawling back to base (their radio was destroyed in the attack) and hears the clicking sound of a predator. He rolls off the road behind a bush and sits and waits. Moments later something invisible jumps out of a tree onto the road and disintegrate all the wreckage and bodies. The survivor watches stunned and in shock. The Elder Predator then continues on his way to the drop pod.

Then it cuts and shows our heroes laughing and joking about their mission and also questioning what that strange object was. After awhile it shows a predator point of view heat vision from the tree tops, silently watching them pass by. Someone on the hero’s squad thinks he sees something and stops and looks right at the predator in the tree tops, but after awhile convince themselves that they were just seeing things and continues walking back to base with his group. It would then show a close up of the elder predators cloaked face so the audience would know it was him (or it could show it was him in some other way whatever worked). The elder continues to the crash site.
IT cuts back to the heroes who come across blast marks in the ground where the convoy was destroyed but nothing else is there. They report it to base and they say they haven’t heard from them and they turn up missing. They continue walking and hear someone moaning on the side of the road. They carefully see who it is and it is the survivor on the side of the road. They ask him questions but he is in too much pain to answer. They pick him up and double time it back to base.

Then it shows the elder finally getting to the pod site. He sees that a patrol group is guarding it so he takes them out then proceeds to disintegrate the pod and their bodies. The elder then switches to a mask vision which shows the tracks of predators (you can see his tracks and the ‘bad bloods’ tracks) the elder proceeds to follow them and chase after the bad blood.

I’m just going to somewhat summarize the rest.

The injured man our heroes bring back to base tells them all he could of the attack (mostly noting an invisible enemy and plasma). Just as he is telling them this an alarm goes off which signifies a breach in security, that someone is trespassing in the military base. The ‘bad blood’ is this intruder and kills anyone and everyone in his way as he makes his way through the base. The elder predator arrives and roars at the site of all the damage the ‘bad blood’ has done. He throws his ‘disintegration vile’ down in anger and continues chasing the ‘bad blood’. The elder runs past various troops and doesn’t kill any of them.

Then the team of heroes set up a trap along the path for the invisible killing wrecking havoc through the base just 2 miles out of the base. When the ‘bad blood’ trips the trap and the team of heroes opens fire )and eventually out of ammo)he easily eludes it and kills all but our hero (but our hero is injured). Right when the ‘bad blood’ is about to stab our hero the elder de-cloaks immediately behind our hero. The ‘bad blood’ quickly moves his plasma cannon to shoot the elder but the elder uses his own to blow it off of the ‘bad blood’. Then there is an epic fight and it ends up where the elder is about to be killed by the ‘bad blood’. During this whole fight our hero is crawling towards a pistol on one of his fallen teammates. And just as the ‘bad blood’ is about to kill the elder he shoots the ‘bad blood’ which makes him stumble back. The elder stands back up and ends up killing the ‘bad blood’. The elder looks at the hero with a look of respect and then picks up the body of the ‘bad blood’ and calls his ship then returns home.
Hero makes it back to base then end movie

This is all pretty rough but you get the idea.

If you read all of this I hope I didn’t bore you I'm just telling you my dream predator movie.

 

[thenammagazine]

____ all the AVP ____. It needs to lay low for a decade or so giving us the opportunity to move on. As for "time traveling" as cool as that is, it would require the open minds of studio executives and a fairly large budget. So we go oldschool...

I'd maybe do something in caves, similar to The Descent. The mud would naturally give people some camouflage and the environment would keep fans uncomfortable and claustrophobic.

The problem comes with working in armed individuals and making it believable. Maybe a U.S. Marshall (ex Special Forces, Navy SEAL or Force Recon) working with a Sheriff's Department posse chasing an armed gang of escaped prisoners into a national park or something.

The only thing I'd borrow from the original, would be to make everyone wait to see hints of the predator and establish the story and characters beforehand and then after the first act, have the predator push them through and force them into the caves. Second act would be full of Predator sneak peeks while he whittles down the cast in standard predator fashion but with the new difficulties of the environment. Saving the final confrontation of the Pred vs. the Marshall until the final act.

My only condition would be that the Marshall would have to be a badass actor and not a skinny little geek or a tired old man. He would've opted out after serving in Afghanistan to make him young enough. And he'd have to be physically imposing enough for the audience to believe he could go toe to toe with the predator.

I heard they were making 2 more terminators so to end the movie line and do a spin off it would have to be T6

Much like the Hobbit films and Bond, the franchise is tied up in studio bankruptcy. So who knows if we'll see them and if we do, the stars may very well no longer be attached.

 

[CelticPredator]

You know what would be cool? We hunt Predators. They come down, and think they're hunting us, but we pull a 180, and go after them. Then it there is a twist.

You dont need to be imposing to fight a Predator....just get it cocky. You can kill it. Verne Troyer could kill a Predator.

 

[karamazov80]

Predator vs. Robocop vs. Jason

 

[thenammagazine]

You know what would be cool? We hunt Predators. They come down, and think they're hunting us, but we pull a 180, and go after them. Then it there is a twist.

You dont need to be imposing to fight a Predator....just get it cocky. You can kill it. Verne Troyer could kill a Predator.

Saw that movie. It was called Predator 2.

 

[CelticPredator]

See? It's hard!

Although, I dont mean like that. I mean ligit hunting. Hiding in the trees, using their cloaking devices.

 

[Macularius]

AVP isn't a bad concept.

Somebody just has to do it well.

 

[thenammagazine]

See? It's hard!

Although, I dont mean like that. I mean ligit hunting. Hiding in the trees, using their cloaking devices.

I could see that. It's jumping the shark a bit, but go the Aliens route, base it in the future and send an attack team to their planet to steal their technology.

 

[CelticPredator]

That too. As long as that stuff doesnt happen in the Predator-Predators timeline, i'm good.

Future would be the best place to go for a Predator.