Predators Cast Complete

How Does It Feel to Be Hunted?

By TK | Posted Under Trade News | Comments (21)

Well, the news about Nimród Antal’s Predators just gets weirder and weirder. Also? Awesomer. We already know the plot — a group of Earth’s biggest badasses are captured and dropped onto the predator aliens’ jungle planet, where they’re forced to fight for their lives. Up until now, the only cast member we knew of was Danny Trejo. Well, now the cast is almost complete. Here we go (I couldn’t find names for the characters yet):

The drug cartel enforcer: Danny Trejo (From Dusk Til Dawn, Machete)
The Russian tough guy: Oleg Taktarov (a bunch of Russian films I’ve never seen)
The female sniper: Alice Braga (I Am Legend, Blindness)
The loose cannon: Walton Goggins (“The Shield”)
The African death squad member: Mahershalalhashbaz Ali (“The 4400”)
The Yakuza gangster: Louis Ozawa Changchien (Gigantic)

OK, interesting, but no one earth shatteringly bizarre. The final two:

The unassuming nebbish-type who’s actually a serial killer: Topher Grace
Royce, the lead: Adrien Brody

Wait, what? Adrian Brody? Really? That’s… kind of spectacular. Brody did OK in the exciting-but-flawed King Kong, and Topher Grace should be an interesting addition as well, playing the Buscemi-in-Con-Air type. Clearly, they’re going for as multicultural a cast as possible, which is fine with me, despite the obvious stereotypes. Should be interesting to see how they play off each other.

So there you have it.

(h/t to Slashfilm)

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Oleg Taktarov was also a MMA fighter and was/is a very bad man. I really do liek the addition of Topher Grace, Brody, eh.

Posted by: admin at October 7, 2009 11:09 AM

Don't you mean Topher would be the Steve Buscemi Con Air character?

I'm getting a bit excited for this now. As long as its not all green-screened that is.

Posted by: TylerDFC at October 7, 2009 11:27 AM

Some of that cast is too pretty. Shouldn't they ALL be ugly motherfuckers?

Posted by: , (TCFKAB) at October 7, 2009 11:32 AM

Calling King Kong flawed is a giant understatement. I like Brody though, he can bring the sexy and the funny.

Posted by: returnofthesmith at October 7, 2009 11:40 AM

Is Hollywood just pathologically incapable of hiring Japanese actors? Because every time they cast a Chinese person in a Japanese role (which actually REALLY grates on me, because it's all part of that "whatever, they all look alike anyway" mentality), relations between China, Japan and the US get just a little shakier. For god's sake, the entire country of China disowned Zhang Ziyi for taking a Japanese role. I HAVEN'T EVEN SEEN HER ALIVE SINCE THEN.

Posted by: Nat at October 7, 2009 11:44 AM

All it needs now is an Arnold cameo. Something along the lines of the above mentioned being narrowed down to 2 or 3 by the Predators and then coming across Arnie(all covered in mud, of course) living in a cave, indicating that he's been there (and survived) for years.

Posted by: East Coast Ugly at October 7, 2009 11:46 AM

The Yakuza gangster: Louis Ozawa Changchien (Gigantic)

Since I've forgotten most of that movie since I saw it, for a split second I thought, "Damn, that baby grew up fast." Now there's little katana wielding babies dancing in my head. I win.

Posted by: jM at October 7, 2009 11:56 AM

When I think of the word "bad-ass," for some reason Topher Grace and Adrian Brody don't exactly leap into my mind...

Seriously, would a species that hunts the toughest a planet has to offer really choose a serial killer? I mean, crazy is one thing, but someone who stalks and murders unsuspecting people doesn't = tough...

And what's Brody going to do? Read a book and bore them to death?

Posted by: Some Guy at October 7, 2009 11:57 AM

Royce, the lead: Adrien Brody

Hummady-hummady-hummady.

Posted by: Natural 20 at October 7, 2009 12:31 PM

Posted by: Some Guy at October 7, 2009 11:57 AM

Variety is the spice of life. Maybe Topher Grace has psycho powers like super stealth or super rage-filled strength or something.

It's hard to get inside the head of an alien mind becuase, well, it's an alien mind.

Posted by: Forbiddendonut at October 7, 2009 12:44 PM

Aaw...maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan

I was so excited for this film.

But seriously?! Trejo, yes, awesome praise the gods YES YES YESSSSSSSS *lights up cig, takes a drag, basks in...bliss*

But...seriously?! Topher Grace? ADRIEN BRODY?!
What the fuck are these dweebs gonna do to a predator?! Confront it with complex quadratic equations until it gets bored and leaves ?!

Son of a fucking BITCH.
If something awesome and clever doesn't happen like Brody and Grace dying in the first five minutes and Trejo taking over and kicking EVERYBODIES ASS IN THE JUNGLE i am seriously murdering the shit out of somebody.

I mean just imagine. Brody and Grace die a death and Trejo, a grizzled old bastard, is called in to take out the Predator. They offer him a cool million to do it.
Trejo 'How badly you want this kid beat up?'

IT WOULD BE THE BALLS

Posted by: Nadine at October 7, 2009 1:02 PM

"Variety is the spice of life. Maybe Topher Grace has psycho powers like super stealth or super rage-filled strength or something."

I just don't see a serial killer strangling a predator to death with some piano wire then having sex with the corpse as that plausible. Cause that's what serial killers do.

Posted by: Some Guy at October 7, 2009 1:50 PM

They did this on an original "Outer Limits" episode, BTW. Aliens fucking with the existence of two planets jack a man and a woman plus two creatures who use a kind of circular saw blade for a weapon onto a little jungle world and let them fight it out to the death. It wasn't bad for its day/budget. Happily, it's called "Fun and Games."

Posted by: , (TCFKAB) at October 7, 2009 3:06 PM

I mean, crazy is one thing, but someone who stalks and murders unsuspecting people doesn't = tough...

We are talking about an alien species whose everyday work wear is a cloaking device and a shoulder-mounted plasma cannon.

I don't think they mind the sneaking up on unsuspecting people too much. Hell, the mere fact he did it without being invisible should make him a god to them.

Posted by: Vermillion at October 7, 2009 4:06 PM

I'll reserve judgment, but Arnold's Dutch barely got out of the first movie alive. One Predator easily dispatched his entire unit of badasses who had a substantial amount of firepower. And now this group is going to credibly take on an entire planet full of them? I know that original Predator had invisibility and a laser gun at his disposal, but it seems like the Predators just keep getting wimpier. We'll see...

Posted by: DarthCorleone at October 7, 2009 4:29 PM

Maybe the Predators get together and designate the baddest-assed Predator of them all to take on the humans, and that baddest-assed Predator of them all is ... Ahnuld. He doesn't even have to appear, they put a stunt double in a Predator costume and dub in the words.

Ahnuld Predator to Danny Trejo, in Ahnuld's voice:

"You one ugly motherfucker."

*Runs away in terror*

I also think the cast should include the Killer Rabbit.

Posted by: , (TCFKAB) at October 7, 2009 4:35 PM

I don't care about Adrien Brody one way or the other--but Topher Grace as a serial killer?! I'm'a squee!

SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

Posted by: Jerce at October 7, 2009 6:55 PM

Bonus: the name "Mahershalalhashbaz" means, appropriately enough, "destruction is imminent." Really.

Posted by: magic8ball at October 7, 2009 7:05 PM

Sooo am I the only one who actually likes Adam Brody? Granted, not my first choice for Predator, but the guys quick and funny, and i doubt the casting crew had Seth from the OC in mind when they wrote the part. This probably means we'll get a surprise performance, or he'll be the comic relief à la Steve Zahn.

Posted by: Chayes at October 8, 2009 1:17 AM

Japanese-American actor who was in "American Me": Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, who looked like a mean muhtafucka. He was the guy who shanked Pie-face in the excercize yard.

Could be a bit too old by now (but then again, how old is Danny Trjo?)

Posted by: oskar at October 8, 2009 5:16 AM

Adrian Brody....didn't he have the role of the incompetent husband that whacked off the hand of his "beloved" wife in the end???
That was a little cruel , but not very tough...at a certain point you would feel sorry for him...being stuck with a frigid wife and whining kid...if they casted him with that scene in mind, maybe this would be a whink to predator 2, where the predator lost a hand too...a love and hate story, perhaps???
I secretly hope they drown him, attached to a heavy object(as seen in avpr) in the end...(...a piano, perhaps?)
If they start throwing around with "feminine" and "sensitive "...I'll curse this movie!

Posted by: gunman-13 at January 30, 2010 4:49 PM

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