"The Predator" by Shane Black (2018)

[GeneralZodLives]

Gonna revive the franchise like Terminator Genisys.

 

[SNIKT1950]

Gonna revive the franchise like Terminator Genisys.

That was PG-13 garbage from a director who's last film Thor: The Dark World was garbage too.

 

[GeneralZodLives]

Don't act like Shane Black is a great director. The only films he's directed are Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Iron Man 3, and The Nice Guys. Not terrible films, but not great either--and not successful at the box office besides Iron Man. We all know Iron Man made money because Marvel has proved it doesn't matter who is involved in their films, they're just going to make money. KKBB had a budget of 15 million and grossed just over 4 million. The Nice guys had a budget of 50 million and grossed 36 million. Besides those films, he was involved as a writer way back in the 90's for some great films, but there is nothing that I hear about the Predator story that guarantees a good movie from him--especially throwing another Iron Man 3 kid into the film.

 

[Khev]

Don't act like Shane Black is a great director. The only films he's directed are Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Iron Man 3, and The Nice Guys.

Yeah but all those films featured Academy Award winning actors. This time he's got Olivia Munn and a kid so now we're going to see what real art looks like.

 

[GeneralZodLives]

Yeah but all those films featured Academy Award winning actors. This time he's got Olivia Munn and a kid so now we're going to see what real art looks like.

Damn right. All he's been lacking to truly reveal his brilliance is Olivia Munn, a kid, a Super Predator, and a bunch of guys that people kinda recognize from that one film they saw. Throw in whatever the comedian's name is and you get award-winning box office gold. Oh, and I guess Reek is now in the movie cuz Black wants to get those Game of Thrones fan $$.

 

[Khev]

And I don't know that I'd call $100 million for The Predator as a sign of changing times. Watchmen, Prometheus, and Elysium all had significantly bigger budgets than that. Both Watchmen and Prometheus turned a profit but neither ushered in an era of tons more R-rated tentpole flims. Those will always be sporadic and not the norm.

 

[The Clown Prince of Crime]

I want the old Olivia Munn back.

OG Munn was cute.

New Munn looks weird.

 

[GasparZizou]

Yeah she looks weird now.

 

[SNIKT1950]

And I don't know that I'd call $100 million for The Predator as a sign of changing times. Watchmen, Prometheus, and Elysium all had significantly bigger budgets than that. Both Watchmen and Prometheus turned a profit but neither ushered in an era of tons more R-rated tentpole flims. Those will always be sporadic and not the norm.

Ridley Scott shot Prometheus as a PG-13 film (the rating the studio wanted). The MPAA screwed both Ridley and the studio and refused to grant the film a PG-13 rating unless they removed the C-section scene. At that point Ridley and the studio stuck to their guns in keeping it despite that leading to an R-rating.

Alien: Covenant on the other hand was written to be R.

 

[jye4ever]

This movie will need to regain everyones trust again after the epic lol of that cast photo.

 

[crows]

AVPR was a low budget one-off the Strause Bros. pitched to FOX and shot for less than $30 Million (the only reason Rothman approved the R-rating). It was written by the Strause Bros. to emulate the B-Movies of the 80s (hence why it reminded you of the 80s Blob).

The Predator is a $100+ Million movie - making it the most expensive Predator movie to date and one that [today's] FOX still granted the R-rating (Predators cost $40 Million while AVP: Alien vs. Predator cost $60 Million but was PG-13). The Predator is supposed to revive the franchise, the way TFA brought back SW and FR brought back MM.

The Predator along with Logan, Ghost in The Shell, Alien: Covenant, Valerian and Death Note represent the end of the impasse that for over a decade prevented studios from paying for big budget mature content.

Mel Gibson said it best:



Times are changing though with films like The Predator being greenlit.

If it flops it will kill the predator franchise forevet

 

[GasparZizou]

Nah, it will take a while but someone else will come along claiming to love the first one and how his version is gonna be true to the original but also something unique that we've never seen before.

 

[EVILFACE]

Yeah but all those films featured Academy Award winning actors. This time he's got Olivia Munn and a kid so now we're going to see what real art looks like.

Is Munn gonna be eating Predator hotdogs or creeping on boys putting on acne cream?

 

[crows]

Nah, it will take a while but someone else will come along claiming to love the first one and how his version is gonna be true to the original but also something unique that we've never seen before.

Theres too much money at stake.... 100 mil budget and probably a 50 mil advertising
Movie will need to make at least 300 mill......

Now that i say it out loud, this movie is going to kill the franchise

 

[greygoose]

I'm still open to the way Black is taking the movie. I always hoped a Predator sequel would carry on the ideas seen in Predator 2 and it looks like it's going this way.

You ask the average Predator fan to pitch an idea for a Pred movie and 9/10 will say it needs to have a group of big guys being hunted but replacing the jungle with a dessert etc. The other 1/10 will pitch an idea like Rodriguez's 90's script and having Gladiator Preds pissing on eachother. One idea is stale and the other idea is just BS. Predators was a mix of both and look how that turned out.

 

[crows]

I'm still open to the way Black is taking the movie. I always hoped a Predator sequel would carry on the ideas seen in Predator 2 and it looks like it's going this way.

You ask the average Predator fan to pitch an idea for a Pred movie and 9/10 will say it needs to have a group of big guys being hunted but replacing the jungle with a dessert etc. The other 1/10 will pitch an idea like Rodriguez's 90's script and having Gladiator Preds pissing on eachother. One idea is stale and the other idea is just BS. Predators was a mix of both and look how that turned out.

Im still going opening week

 

[GasparZizou]

Theres too much money at stake.... 100 mil budget and probably a 50 mil advertising
Movie will need to make at least 300 mill......

Now that i say it out loud, this movie is going to kill the franchise

Watch a fantastic four reboot happen eventually.

If brometheus didnt sink Alien, and we already endured 3 mediocre pred movies with smaller budget, nothing will.

As long as there appeal for the 1st there will always be room for reboots.

Also arent they making another terminator? If Genysis didnt sink that one...

 

[The Clown Prince of Crime]

Im still going opening week

 

[crows]

Watch a fantastic four reboot happen eventually.

If brometheus didnt sink Alien, and we already endured 3 mediocre pred movies with smaller budget, nothing will.

As long as there appeal for the 1st there will always be room for reboots.

Also arent they making another terminator? If Genysis didnt sink that one...

Problem is budget and how much it will make back.

I dont think this movie has 300 mil in it, not after the hate for the cast pic. 300 mil would get even

Those other movies didnt lose as much i dont think

Because it is predator bro. Is predator... i love pred.
I wanna see pred again.

 

[The Clown Prince of Crime]

Because it is predator bro. Is predator... i love pred.
I wanna see pred again.