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Predators Script Details Revealed / TK

Trade News | September 30, 2009 | Comments (19)

More and more Predators news, folks. Yesterday we talked about notable badass and “that guy” actor Danny Trejo had been cast in the Robert Rodriguez-produced, Nimród Antel-directed film. Now, Latino Review has gotten their grubby little paws on the script, and proclaimed it to be a “a 90-page kick-ass sci-fi movie worthy of the original. The script isn’t some lame PG-13 follow-up. It’s a bloody, violent hard-R script.”

OK. I’m down with that.

But wait, there’s more! Apparently, the story follows a character named Royce, who is grabbed up by the predators and dropped onto their home planet, where he meets up with other humans like him — humans that have been kidnapped and forced to fight for their survival on their deadly jungle planet. So, yes, it’s got a good bit of Richard Connell’s “The Most Dangerous Game” (which has been adapted into numerous films) in it, but I admit, it sounds pretty cool. Slashfilm reports that some of the other characters include “a Mexican uzi-packing drug cartel enforcer (likely Trejo’s role, ha.); a “Russian bear” with a rotary machine gun; a female sniper who speaks fluent French; a gangster-esque felon who wields a makeshift knife; a black death squad member from Africa; a yakuza named Hanzo; and an unassuming, smallish-type guy who is on the FBI’s most wanted list.”

Sort of like a more international version of the cast of the original McTeirnan film. Finally, LR reports that “The Predator planet is a game perserve and our eight humans are the game and are hunted by alien Predator dogs, Predator falcons, and the most cool, the Predator that is orchestrating everything…is a super Predator, think of a normal Predator jacked up on steroids! In the script he is referred to as Black Super Predator.”

Huh. OK. It sounds like a bit of a kitchen sink approach, tossing in every conceivable permutation, but then again, that’s Robert Rodriguez for you. Skilled film maker, but not exactly someone you’d describe as “subtle.”

Predator dogs? Predator birds? I won’t lie — I’m dying to see the concept art on this sumbitch.


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Comments


Perhaps a Predator beaver? To be worn as a glove?

Posted by: Lance at September 30, 2009 11:39 AM

an unassuming, smallish-type guy who is on the FBI’s most wanted list
So Ben from Lost would be perfect for this. But Steve Buschemi would be amazing.

Posted by: Optimus Rhyme at September 30, 2009 11:46 AM

Won't lie, I will be watching this. Rodriguez is not the greatest filmmaker but he gets genre stuff right.

Posted by: Fredo at September 30, 2009 11:52 AM

Huh?

So, the Predators not only round up an ecclectic group of humans for their entertainment - they also bring along their Earth-bound weapons? And presumably ammunition for said weapons? And some way of re-supplying the humans in-game, else they have to resort to throwing the weapons... Or something.

Sorry, lost my hard-on for this premise. Said it before and I'll say it again: The Predator was most awesome when it was an enigma. We don't need backstory to be intimidated by this thing - we just need to see it, or snatch glimpses of it, or stumble across the remains of its latest victim.

Subtlety is rapidly becoming a lost skill, now we have to be simultaneously skull-fucked and sodomized by Hollywood? Nay, I say. Nay!

Posted by: malikvlc at September 30, 2009 11:55 AM

United Colors of Predatorville? My, aren't we PC.

Regardless I see it for sheer ass-kickery.

Posted by: admin at September 30, 2009 12:07 PM

The script isn’t some lame PG-13 follow-up. It’s a bloody, violent hard-R script.

Okay, I'm far more interested in this now. Also, can I please be called Black Super jM from now on?

Posted by: jM at September 30, 2009 12:09 PM

You bet, jM.

I'm a little disappointed that you didn't jump on the possibilities of predator pandas, though.

Posted by: Skewicide Blonde at September 30, 2009 12:12 PM

The last thing I need is for them to be able to put up more of a fight, Skewicide Blonde.

Posted by: Black Super jM at September 30, 2009 12:19 PM

R, hmmm? Does that mean we'll finally get full frontal Predator nudity? I hear that they don't just mount cannons on their shoulders, if you catch my drift. Penis.

Posted by: Steven Lloyd Wilson at September 30, 2009 12:22 PM

Hmmmm.....BSjM. Sounds dirty. And I mean orally dirty.

Posted by: admin at September 30, 2009 12:28 PM

a normal Predator jacked up on steroids! . . . Black Super Predator.

Wow. Um, race war, anyone?

Regardless, the movie sounds full of ass-kicking I'd like to see, but why the jacked-up Predator gotta be "black", yo?

Posted by: MM at September 30, 2009 12:34 PM

Regardless, the movie sounds full of ass-kicking I'd like to see, but why the jacked-up Predator gotta be "black", yo?

Because they couldn't apply the chola wings correctly on the predator's face.

Posted by: admin at September 30, 2009 12:36 PM

So, the Predators not only round up an ecclectic group of humans for their entertainment - they also bring along their Earth-bound weapons? And presumably ammunition for said weapons? And some way of re-supplying the humans in-game, else they have to resort to throwing the weapons... Or something.

Posted by: malikvlc at September 30, 2009 11:55 AM

While I grant you the Predators getting ammo for the weapons sounds unplausible, the Predators allowing the humans to be armed with their weapons of choice sounds quite consistent with what I recall from the two movies I saw.

In all likelihood, the Predators would stalk the various humans to determine whether they would be "worthy" for the Big Hunt. They would then capture them and be sure to get their weapon of expertise so that they make a worthy prey. If they happen to grab some ammo for the guns as well, I am totally cool with that.

Posted by: Forbiddendonut at September 30, 2009 1:19 PM

This actually reminds me of the Predator v. Batman comic I read once where some gangster or villain hires a bunch of killers to go after Batman and they just end up getting taken out, of course, by Batman, the Predator, and each other. The line-up was remarkably similar.

Posted by: HappyGobo at September 30, 2009 1:35 PM

"a Mexican uzi-packing drug cartel enforcer?!"

What an '80s era choice of bad guy and bad guy weapon. I do hope he's going to wear a sportcoat with the sleeves pushed up.

Posted by: Jacktrade at September 30, 2009 1:43 PM

"a female sniper who speaks fluent French".
Does that mean she's French, or just relevant because Bush is gone?
Détente in american cinema; "first we mention the French language. Next year, garlic bread..."
I can't tell from this whether it's more important she's a sniper or she speaks French.

Posted by: Donalb at September 30, 2009 6:31 PM

Robert Rodriguez is subtle...oh look at Carla Gugino's tits.

Sorry. ADD's a bitch.

Posted by: bignick at September 30, 2009 7:01 PM

Based on the quotes featured above, Latino Review have horrible sentence construction.

Posted by: Daniel Hall at October 1, 2009 12:28 AM

Shouldn't it be "Latino Review has horrible sentence construction?"

Posted by: Paulo at October 1, 2009 6:04 AM





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