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The only real problem is, they arent being played by 7ft tall actors. Which tends to make them look really stocky.
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I'm sure the right suit design and cinematography could compensate for actor heights.
Tom Woodruff's a tiny guy but on screen the Predalien came off as a much larger creature than when you see Tom in the suit behind the scenes.
Tom Woodruff's a tiny guy but on screen the Predalien came off as a much larger creature than when you see Tom in the suit behind the scenes.
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His Aliens looked hidious imo. So did his Predalien.
But thats just me. I kinda perfer the long lanky Aliens.
But thats just me. I kinda perfer the long lanky Aliens.
Well, I prefer my Aliens to look bio-mechnical and ADI threw that out the door so the rest is irrelevant 
, but the wright filmmaking and you can make what comes out on film look like something different than reality. Does it mean short actor Preds will look like they're much taller, no, but it's possible to achieve.
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Yes, that is true Mr. Fan.
I just dont think it worked well in AvP-R. The aliens all looked short and chubby. Ew.
I just dont think it worked well in AvP-R. The aliens all looked short and chubby. Ew.
I pretty much pay attention to Wolf and Predalien when I watch AVPR, the Aliens were just expendable creatures for both of them.
I wonder what sort of weaponry the new Predators will be armed with. One thing that I've found true in all the movies with predators is that their weapons are always really cool. I loved Wolf's whip.
I wonder what sort of weaponry the new Predators will be armed with. One thing that I've found true in all the movies with predators is that their weapons are always really cool. I loved Wolf's whip.
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Well, theres not much new here, the only new weapon from the script is this gattling gun arm cannon. 'Sabout it.
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Which I personally hated. Cameron managed to make the aliens in " Aliens " have a sort of personality whilst still not usually lasting long on screen. When you see them the scenes are always tense or action filled. In avp-r apart from maybe one scene your just waiting for wolf to kill everyone and everything.
Well just because it's not scripted doesn't mean they might not come up with more.
Hopefully at least a teaser trailer will come soon if this movie's coming out in July.
Hopefully at least a teaser trailer will come soon if this movie's coming out in July.
Which I personally hated. Cameron managed to make the aliens in " Aliens " have a sort of personality whilst still not usually lasting long on screen. When you see them the scenes are always tense or action filled. In avp-r apart from maybe one scene your just waiting for wolf to kill everyone and everything.
Well Ridley and Cameron both used the Aliens as a means of driving a human story, same with Predator, the creature was a driving force but like Alien, it wasn't central until the final conflict with the main hero. That idea was lost a bit over A3 and AR, then AVP films really turned them into just creatures for the sake of watching 2 classic film creatures battle it out and the human story was really tossed aside and poorly constructed.
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Well the wait is almost over i found out this today-
Predators Hit Texas
Rodriguez to present early movie footage at SXSW Film Festival.
Hordes of Predators are set to descend on Austin, Texas, with the latest chapter in the action franchise about to hit the SXSW film festival.
Producer Robert Rodriguez and director Nimrod Antal will present an exclusive "first look" at the eagerly anticipated sequel, followed by a Q&A about their work on the film.
According to the official announcement, "The film stars Adrien Brody as Royce, a mercenary who reluctantly leads a group of elite warriors who come to realize they've been brought together on an alien planet... as prey. With the exception of a disgraced physician, they are all cold-blooded killers -- mercenaries, Yakuza, convicts, death squad members -- human "predators" that are now being systematically hunted and eliminated by a new breed of alien Predators."
Speaking of the event, Rodriguez said, "My director Nimrod Antal and I are excited to bring this first look at Predators to Austin's SXSW Film Festival, an event that's become vital to the filmmaking scene. Austin is my home, and I'm proud that Predators was conceived and filmed here."
The presentation takes place on the festival's opening night, following the world premiere of superhero flick Kick-Ass, meaning that March 12 will be an exciting night for geeks in Texas.
Predators Hit Texas
Rodriguez to present early movie footage at SXSW Film Festival.
Hordes of Predators are set to descend on Austin, Texas, with the latest chapter in the action franchise about to hit the SXSW film festival.
Producer Robert Rodriguez and director Nimrod Antal will present an exclusive "first look" at the eagerly anticipated sequel, followed by a Q&A about their work on the film.
According to the official announcement, "The film stars Adrien Brody as Royce, a mercenary who reluctantly leads a group of elite warriors who come to realize they've been brought together on an alien planet... as prey. With the exception of a disgraced physician, they are all cold-blooded killers -- mercenaries, Yakuza, convicts, death squad members -- human "predators" that are now being systematically hunted and eliminated by a new breed of alien Predators."
Speaking of the event, Rodriguez said, "My director Nimrod Antal and I are excited to bring this first look at Predators to Austin's SXSW Film Festival, an event that's become vital to the filmmaking scene. Austin is my home, and I'm proud that Predators was conceived and filmed here."
The presentation takes place on the festival's opening night, following the world premiere of superhero flick Kick-Ass, meaning that March 12 will be an exciting night for geeks in Texas.
I agree Woodruff jr killed the look of the aliens imo.they look more dinosaur looking now and you can tell theyre not as big as they should be.
Still like the A3 alien,but thats probably because Giger helped a little in the design.I would be awesome for giger and fox to make up so would take over the alien design for the prequel
I agree completely. They lost the whole exoskeletal look and gained skin/muscle. I still like the dog/ox and i can allow it's design in my mind being that it didn't spawn from a human so we have no reference as to what it should look like.
When I look at the group shot of the 3 preds their posture really makes me think of dog soldiers minus the collie heads.
On that note I want a dog soldier maquette...
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March 10, 2010 - Movie fans attending the upcoming SXSW Film Festival will get a special treat in the form of a preview for the Predators movie, which actually seems like it might not suck. Considering how the Predator franchise has been completely bastardized by the ill-conceived mash-ups with the Alien series, that's a surprise. Can't make it to SXSW? We can help. Here's what we know about the flick so far...
It seems Fox had to strike out twice with the AVP experiment before they realized that the best way to treat the Predator is to go back to the beginning. That's what they're doing with Predators.
Long before he became Mr. Spy Kids Sin City, Robert Rodriguez wrote a script for a sequel to 1987's "Get to the choppuh!" Predator, which followed a motley crew of hard-to-kill humans trying to survive as game for the ugly mothers. Now, years later, the project has been reborn.
Expect all sorts of alien-on-human violence with this movie, as we've heard that Predator-Falcons and other alien beasties take part in the bloodhunt.
Even as fans were still coming to terms with the mess the franchise was in after AVP 2, new life was breathed into the Predator series in early 2009 when genre darling Rodriguez was hired to guide the project. Early reports suggested that he was set to direct, but Rodriguez is only producing the picture. Still, that's a big deal.
"We're hiring new writers and a director and I'm going to produce it over at Troublemaker Studios with Fox to try and reboot the series in a really great way," Rodriguez explained to IGN.
Rodriguez on the set of Grindhouse
"This is something else," he said when asked if the new movie would have anything to do with the AVP movies. "This is more like the first movie, but in a new way. Just rebooting the series in a whole new way. Not a remake, but more like what they did with the Batman series. They just started over. You know? Let's just start over using a different approach to it. We'll take the character everybody loves, but let's rethink it and make it for the time. Because the first one was made 20-plus years ago. So you want to do something more updated."
Rodriguez was instrumental in bringing in Kontroll director Nimrod Antal of whom he said, "I found him to be an outstanding presence, a great communicator full of ideas. He reminded me of Quentin [Tarantino] with how he was able to work with a group of very strong, singular actor talents and make it look effortless."
At Comic-Con, Rodriguez told fans that 20th Century Fox reapproached him about the project because they thought the Predator franchise had gone astray with the Alien vs. Predator movies. He assured fans that the studio was letting him make the movie his way at his Troublemaker Studios in Austin, Texas, and that his '94 script will be the basis for it.
Production officially began in late September at Troublemaker before going on location to Kolekole, Hawaii.
The story, it's been revealed, is set on what amounts to a Predator wildlife reserve where a group of bad-ass killers have been transported by the Predators to be hunted for sport.
The quickly assembled cast began to come together upon the signing of stars Adrien Brody and Topher Grace. Alice Braga was also added to the film along with frequent Rodriguez collaborator Danny Trejo, Shield actor Walton Goggins, The 4400 star Mahershalalhashbaz Ali, and UFC fighter Oleg Taktarov.
The Hollywood Reporter scooped at the time: "Brody is a man who ends up inheriting the mantle of leader and is known as a hunter of men. Grace would play an accountant-type whose unassuming facade masks a dangerous serial killer. Braga is the tough female killer. Ali is a man not afraid to die, Goggins is the loose canon of the group and Taktarov is a former Russian special ops agent. Trejo is Cuchillo, a hardened warrior with twin uzis strapped to his back." Louis Ozawa Changchien will play a Yakuza hitman.
An unlikely pair? Brody and Grace star in Predators.
Morpheus himself, Laurence Fishburne, hopped on board the project as a mysterious character named Noland. Little is known about the character aside from the fact that he's somehow managed to stay alive in this otherwise deadly environment for years before the Predators' latest conquests arrive.
The all-important creature effects have been handled by KNB -- the shop's Greg Nicotero worked on the 1987 Predator film, and also collaborated with Rodriguez on From Dusk Till Dawn and Sin City. KNB FX guru Howard Berger worked with Stan Winston on the original creature as well. Berger has gone on record saying the new creatures are "very faithful to the Stan Winston designs" and that "everyone's going to be very happy" with them.
Along with the announcement of the impending SXSW preview and Q&A, we got our first (apparently) official plot synopsis: "The film stars Adrien Brody as Royce, a mercenary who reluctantly leads a group of elite warriors who come to realize they've been brought together on an alien planet... as prey. With the exception of a disgraced physician, they are all cold-blooded killers -- mercenaries, Yakuza, convicts, death squad members -- human "predators" that are now being systematically hunted and eliminated by a new breed of alien Predators." That new breed? Rumor has it that it's something called a "Black Super Predator."
The presentation takes place on the festival's opening night, following the world premiere of superhero flick Kick-Ass, meaning that in just a couple of days (March 12) we'll know even more about Predators.
Predators, from 20th Century Fox and Troublemaker Studios, opens on July 9, 2010. Rodriguez produces the Antal-directed flick from a script by Rodriguez with revisions by Alex Litvak and Michael Finch. Composer John Debney (Spy Kids, Sin City) is scoring the film. We'll have more here on IGN as the movie's release approaches.
It seems Fox had to strike out twice with the AVP experiment before they realized that the best way to treat the Predator is to go back to the beginning. That's what they're doing with Predators.
Long before he became Mr. Spy Kids Sin City, Robert Rodriguez wrote a script for a sequel to 1987's "Get to the choppuh!" Predator, which followed a motley crew of hard-to-kill humans trying to survive as game for the ugly mothers. Now, years later, the project has been reborn.
Expect all sorts of alien-on-human violence with this movie, as we've heard that Predator-Falcons and other alien beasties take part in the bloodhunt.
Even as fans were still coming to terms with the mess the franchise was in after AVP 2, new life was breathed into the Predator series in early 2009 when genre darling Rodriguez was hired to guide the project. Early reports suggested that he was set to direct, but Rodriguez is only producing the picture. Still, that's a big deal.
"We're hiring new writers and a director and I'm going to produce it over at Troublemaker Studios with Fox to try and reboot the series in a really great way," Rodriguez explained to IGN.
Rodriguez on the set of Grindhouse
"This is something else," he said when asked if the new movie would have anything to do with the AVP movies. "This is more like the first movie, but in a new way. Just rebooting the series in a whole new way. Not a remake, but more like what they did with the Batman series. They just started over. You know? Let's just start over using a different approach to it. We'll take the character everybody loves, but let's rethink it and make it for the time. Because the first one was made 20-plus years ago. So you want to do something more updated."
Rodriguez was instrumental in bringing in Kontroll director Nimrod Antal of whom he said, "I found him to be an outstanding presence, a great communicator full of ideas. He reminded me of Quentin [Tarantino] with how he was able to work with a group of very strong, singular actor talents and make it look effortless."
At Comic-Con, Rodriguez told fans that 20th Century Fox reapproached him about the project because they thought the Predator franchise had gone astray with the Alien vs. Predator movies. He assured fans that the studio was letting him make the movie his way at his Troublemaker Studios in Austin, Texas, and that his '94 script will be the basis for it.
Production officially began in late September at Troublemaker before going on location to Kolekole, Hawaii.
The story, it's been revealed, is set on what amounts to a Predator wildlife reserve where a group of bad-ass killers have been transported by the Predators to be hunted for sport.
The quickly assembled cast began to come together upon the signing of stars Adrien Brody and Topher Grace. Alice Braga was also added to the film along with frequent Rodriguez collaborator Danny Trejo, Shield actor Walton Goggins, The 4400 star Mahershalalhashbaz Ali, and UFC fighter Oleg Taktarov.
The Hollywood Reporter scooped at the time: "Brody is a man who ends up inheriting the mantle of leader and is known as a hunter of men. Grace would play an accountant-type whose unassuming facade masks a dangerous serial killer. Braga is the tough female killer. Ali is a man not afraid to die, Goggins is the loose canon of the group and Taktarov is a former Russian special ops agent. Trejo is Cuchillo, a hardened warrior with twin uzis strapped to his back." Louis Ozawa Changchien will play a Yakuza hitman.
An unlikely pair? Brody and Grace star in Predators.
Morpheus himself, Laurence Fishburne, hopped on board the project as a mysterious character named Noland. Little is known about the character aside from the fact that he's somehow managed to stay alive in this otherwise deadly environment for years before the Predators' latest conquests arrive.
The all-important creature effects have been handled by KNB -- the shop's Greg Nicotero worked on the 1987 Predator film, and also collaborated with Rodriguez on From Dusk Till Dawn and Sin City. KNB FX guru Howard Berger worked with Stan Winston on the original creature as well. Berger has gone on record saying the new creatures are "very faithful to the Stan Winston designs" and that "everyone's going to be very happy" with them.
Along with the announcement of the impending SXSW preview and Q&A, we got our first (apparently) official plot synopsis: "The film stars Adrien Brody as Royce, a mercenary who reluctantly leads a group of elite warriors who come to realize they've been brought together on an alien planet... as prey. With the exception of a disgraced physician, they are all cold-blooded killers -- mercenaries, Yakuza, convicts, death squad members -- human "predators" that are now being systematically hunted and eliminated by a new breed of alien Predators." That new breed? Rumor has it that it's something called a "Black Super Predator."
The presentation takes place on the festival's opening night, following the world premiere of superhero flick Kick-Ass, meaning that in just a couple of days (March 12) we'll know even more about Predators.
Predators, from 20th Century Fox and Troublemaker Studios, opens on July 9, 2010. Rodriguez produces the Antal-directed flick from a script by Rodriguez with revisions by Alex Litvak and Michael Finch. Composer John Debney (Spy Kids, Sin City) is scoring the film. We'll have more here on IGN as the movie's release approaches.
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This sounds great...cant wait for more info!
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We wont get jack ____ tomorrow. I hate this ____ so much. RELEASE A ____ING TRAILER ALREADY.
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It is absolutely insane that we haven't even seen a freaking teaser yet...
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