First Predators Footage

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We’ve provided a bit of coverage for Robert Rodriguez’s upcoming Predators movie, a continuation/reboot/sequel reborquel of the franchise made famous originally by Arnold Schwarzeneggar and director John McTeirnan. The alien creature from predator has had a lengthy, and spotty, history on the big screen. The first movie remains a stellar action film, the second (featuring Danny Glover and Gary Busey) is a mixed bag at best. Then came Paul W.S. Anderson’s awful Alien Vs. Predator, and eventually the odd, filled-with-no-names AVP: Requiem, which I enjoyed more than I expected to. I’m not saying it was good, but it was better than the prior two entries.

Regardless, Rodriguez and his Troublemaker Studios have been filming Predators, which actually takes place on the predator home planet. The official synopsis is:

“PREDATORS, a bold new chapter in the Predator universe, shot under the creative auspices of Robert Rodriguez, 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 notable 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.”

Now, I like Rodriguez for the most part, as long as he’s not directing children’s movies. And Adrien Brody is seriously talented. So there’s potential. Now, Rodriguez has released the first teaser footage, a combination of behind-the-scenes and actual film footage. It gives us some looks at Brody as well as Laurence Fishburne, a couple of glimpses of the actual predators (including one shot that means they either have weird new helmets, or some of them have really scary teeth — more so than usual). There is also a quick glimpse of the so-called “predator hounds,” which actually looks much cooler than I expected. I’m.. cautiously optimistic. Whaddaya think?

Here’s the concept art for the hounds, as well as the first poster. All images and video courtesy of the nice boys of Bloody Disgusting, via the new Predators official website.

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Topher Grace?!

Posted by: Salieri2 at March 13, 2010 1:04 PM

I remember hearing about this and having a "one of these is not like the others" moment about Topher Grace's casting. But, I guess he's the disgraced physician judging by that spastic run. It makes more sense now.

Posted by: jM at March 13, 2010 1:16 PM

My favorite part has always been the Predators themselves. This time around we got the 6'5" Derek Mears who was in The Hills Have Eyes II and recently played the the newest incarnation of Jason Voorhees in Friday the 13th. Another one of the Predators is the 6'7" Brian Steele. He has had parts in every Underworld film as a werewolf, he played the Drake creature in Blade: Trinity, the big bad guy in Resident Evil: Extinction, he was in both Hellboy movies and the recent Terminator Salvation. In other words the guy knows how to play big, bad, and creepy.

Of course...all I really need to say is that Danny Trejo is in the motherfucker.

Posted by: DeistBrawler at March 13, 2010 1:21 PM

Interest: piqued.

Posted by: MM at March 13, 2010 1:23 PM

Unfortunately, the hound looks a bit like a clone of the panther/tiger things from Avatar. So this looks fun, but I suspect the new content will be a bit of a hard sell from an "originality" standpoint.

Posted by: Yossarian at March 13, 2010 1:36 PM

The Trejo factor is definitely a plus. Wonder if Rodriguez will manage to sneak in a Cheech Marin cameo somewhere in that bitch.

Posted by: BarbadoSlim at March 13, 2010 1:44 PM

I'm in.

Posted by: , at March 13, 2010 2:04 PM

I may be just a little bit excited. Not much, but just a touch.

Posted by: admin at March 13, 2010 2:07 PM

"Attention Predators! Take advantage of our spinal column sale. Pull the spinal column out of one hopelessly outmatched human, get a second spinal column, of equal or lesser length, for only a penny!"

Posted by: Groundloop at March 13, 2010 2:13 PM

You know, from a physiological standpoint, the horn-like prong doodads coming out of that hound's neck are absurd. The lower ones on the sides of the jaw extend past the snout! I mean... sure, it could totally stab the shit out of something, but how the hell is it supposed to eat what it stabs when its fangs can't logistically reach the prey's flesh? Does it have opposable thumbs and a little set of camping utensils, or does it just spend a whole lot of time playing an evolutionary variant of the carrot-on-a-stick game? Seems pretty silly, as far as hell hounds go.

Posted by: Sarina at March 13, 2010 2:49 PM

The horns aren't barbed, it could easily just pull them out after impaling you.

Posted by: Steph at March 13, 2010 3:29 PM

Actually from a physiological standpoint they make sense, if you consider a different approach.

Clearly the animal is weak at two points; belly and face. If you were attacking an animal like this, you would instinctively go for the sides, which are less protected, and the back horns provide some protection there.

The face horns provide complete coverage for the eyes, mouth, and nose. Another animal could not get a paw/thingy in there to attack sensitive sensory organs. While obviously it would make eating a pain in the ass, it's probably better to have a good defense. Elephant tusks probably the inspiration here.

We'll see where RobRod takes this thing--he rarely makes a complete disappointment (even Dusk Till Dawn was enjoyable on a drunk level). Although I'm just wondering how much new ground there is to cover with either Aliens or Predators. Is there any level of bad-ass that can even top the first Predator in terms of masculine overkill?

Also let's get real here, Larry Fishburne was looking a little hefty in The Matrix Reloaded, so we'll see how believable this ragtag cast of stereotypes is.

Posted by: D-Day at March 13, 2010 3:38 PM

Yes, but then how does it actually get any dead flesh into its mouth? Every time it would try to eat something, the horns would just stick in first and it wouldn't be able to reach to take a bite. The poor thing would be stuck licking at the carcass and whining pathetically, because it would be physically unable to actually chomp on anything. No wonder it's so pissed off. It's hungry like a damn supermodel.

Posted by: Sarina at March 13, 2010 3:41 PM

But look at how wide the mouth is open in the picture. I imagine it rests its tusks on the hump of the carcass and kind of eats under it, using its lower jaw as the main scraping mechanism instead of the upper jaw, like Earth mammals.

Posted by: VentureSister at March 13, 2010 4:00 PM

We all need to remember that this is a movie from Robert Rodriguez with PREDATORS.

Subtlety isn't exactly a staple of the series. These movies are about as delicate as dropping an anvil out a 10-story building to crack an egg. Or did you forget Predator 2 ?

Posted by: D-Day at March 13, 2010 4:05 PM

Although I agree 100% that the "hound" is just ridiculous--and also overkill, considering that there are two (?!) "species" of Predator already, I feel duty-bound:

NEEEEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRDS!

P.S. I have trouble thinking of Adrien Brody as a "tough guy," but he looks mighty sturdy in those clips.

Posted by: Jerce at March 13, 2010 4:07 PM

Adrien Brody plus Predator? Count me in. And count my underpants damp.

Posted by: Bequafina at March 13, 2010 7:12 PM

They wanted to make the hound look "kewl" by sticking all them horns on it.

/went overboard

Posted by: BarbadoSlim at March 13, 2010 7:58 PM

Also only one set of tusks are actually attached to the head, the rest are further back. If I'm not mistaken, the creature wouldn't have too much trouble eating if it stood over its kill and pointed its head downwards.

I don't think that this is a particularly common eating position on earth, as it can be difficult to brace the carcass as they rip at it, however it is a fairly popular position for animals in movies as they rip out a person's entrails.

Posted by: Chugga at March 13, 2010 8:13 PM

somwhat like this: http://stacysbigpicture.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/09/25/lionkill.jpg

Posted by: Chugga at March 13, 2010 8:14 PM

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! Thanks.I see. Maybe. 'cause the horns by the face really look a bit overdone. Well now I HAVE to see the movie. Curiousity was always a besetting sin of mine. Let's see if they're as tough as the 'puppies' from Chronicles of Riddick.

What? I thought they excellent critters.

Posted by: Four Eyes at March 13, 2010 10:20 PM

Adrean Brody and Topher Grace are two of the people that the Predators pick as worthy of hunting, and y'all are concerned about how plausible the tusks are? Hell, the tusks could be made of paper mache and glitter, rotate like a the Ronco egg in shell thing and write just like a Mont Blanc and they'd stll be more plausible then either of those two being in any group that includes Danny Trejo.

Posted by: mrcreosote at March 14, 2010 1:10 PM

I'm sorry, but this looks awful. When the cliche count is so high in an early trailer, what hope is there for the actual movie?

Someone needs to face the fact that, like nightmares, the Predator, Alien and Terminator concepts are almost incapable of real narrative development. Between the three 'franchises' - god, how i hate that term - we've now had two brilliant movies (Alien and The Terminator), three good movies (Aliens, T2 and Predator) and seven indifferent-to-hopeless 'sequels' that are essentially low-wattage remakes. The sense of the industry treading water in the absence of new ideas is profound.

Alien appeared in 1979, The Thing in 1982, The Terminator in 1984 and Predator and Robocop in 1987. They're great popular films, but almost every scifi/horror film since then has referenced one or another of them. Since that eight-year burst of inspiration it's over twenty years - count 'em - since Hollywood produced a genuinely original genre movie of equal power. Even Cameron in Avatar is plagiarising his own earlier work.

Please, please stop paying to see these dreadful, demeaning flicks and perhaps they'll stop making them. Then maybe we'll see what the new generation can do.

Posted by: PaulBowes at March 14, 2010 3:00 PM

I think I get what you're trying to say, PaulBowes. ZOMG! THEY TOTALLY NEED TO MAKE ALIEN VS. PREDATOR VS. THE THING VS. THE TERMINATOR VS. ROBOCOP: GRUDGE MATCH!

Posted by: Craig at March 14, 2010 3:25 PM

So it's "The Most Dangerous Game"...IN SPACE

Posted by: ahamos at March 14, 2010 4:22 PM

the tusks could be made of paper mache and glitter, rotate like a the Ronco egg in shell thing and write just like a Mont Blanc and they'd stll be more plausible then either of those two being in any group that includes Danny Trejo.

Posted by: mrcreosote at March 14, 2010 1:10 PM

So VERY, very true.

Posted by: BarbadoSlim at March 14, 2010 6:00 PM

I'm already in line.

Posted by: Nicolae at March 14, 2010 7:56 PM

Q: How would a hound with horns like that on it's back mate?

A: very carefully

Posted by: EricD at March 15, 2010 1:20 AM

That picture has ruined doggystyle for me forever.

Posted by: , at March 15, 2010 5:05 AM

Hoping the explanation for how Foreman got on the Predator planet is that it was an accident - They tried to zap up some Ultimate Fighter motherfucker, but they accidentally grabbed his cellmate/bottom-bitch instead.

Posted by: the new transported man at March 15, 2010 8:28 AM

In a word: reedickulus!

Posted by: Ducky at March 15, 2010 9:16 AM

I will so see this.

Posted by: Whorish Mouth at March 15, 2010 9:37 AM

Gee Big Nose Brody, Fat Fishburne, and Topher Grace IN AN ACTION MOVIE?!!?! That's funny!

Sorry this cast fails.

Posted by: logan at March 15, 2010 11:03 AM

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