Predators

[Doctor Loomis]

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First stills from the set :-

looks good so far :)

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Predators, Nimrod Antal’s anticipated sequel to the Arnold Schwarzanegger classic was finally previewed at the South by Southwest Film Festival in Austin last night.

20th Century Fox, which is producing the film, also released a new teaser poster.





The sneak peak does not say anything that producer and screenwriter Robert Rodriguez has not already revealed in interviews but the cinematography is sleek and the Predators look as bad-ass as ever. Even better, Adrian Brody looks half-way believable as the hero of the story.




http://www.traileraddict.com/trailer...ors/sneak-peak


You’ll have to wait until July 7th to get to the chopper.

Here’s the official synopsis for Predators:

A bold new chapter in the Predator universe, Predators was shot on location under Rodriguez’s creative auspices at the filmmaker’s Austin-based Troublemaker Studios, and is directed by Nimród Antal. 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 systemically hunted and eliminated by a new breed of alien Predators. In addition to Adrien Brody, the film stars Topher Grace, Alice Braga, and Laurence Fishburne. Co-starring are Walton Goggins, Danny Trejo, Oleg Taktarov and Mahershalalhashbaz Ali.

And, as a thoughtful bone to those who can’t make it to Texas for the fest, the filmmakers have thrown up a quick preview, introduced by Rodriguez that includes footage from the movie and an explanation of what they wanted to achieve.

Around the same time, FOX launched the brand spankin' new Predators site with pics and a behind-the-scenes video. Check out the Predators behind-the-scenes video and your first look at a Predator Hound.

Yes, you read that right. A Predator Hound!

So head on over to the official Predators site to get a look at Adrien Brody, Laurence Fishburne and the rest transported to what they quickly realise is a game preserve where, as Brody points out, “we’re the game”.

Official site now online - http://www.predators-movie.com/


http://www.firstshowing.net/2010/03/...uez-predators/

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Producer Robert Rodriguez and director Nimrod Antal screened first-look footage of Predators Friday night for 200 or so lucky attendees on the opening night of the South by Southwest Film Festival and Conference, then talked at length about returning the franchise to the character-driven feel of 1987’s classic Predator.





The Predators in the upcoming film, due in July, are part of a new tribe we haven’t met yet, the duo said during the packed screening. As in the original film, every Predator is a trophy hunter and an expert in stalking and killing its prey, but each monster has its own specialized skill. There’s a falconer Predator who has a little UAV that serves as its eyes in the sky, a dog handler Predator (we got to see production art of its dog, sort of a dinosaur-wolf hybrid) and a “Super Predator” the production team refers to as “Mr. Black.”








As seen in the production art, the aliens all look familiar, with the same dreadlocks, fearsome mandibles and bad-ass body armor of the original. But everything has been updated — there’s new weaponry, new armor, and an overall sleeker look.

“If the original was the 8-track version,” said Rodriguez, “then these are the iPod versions.”





Rodriguez was given the chance to write a sequel to 1987’s Predator back in 1996. He wrote a script, flirted with the idea of directing it and even got to pitch it to Arnold Schwarzenegger. The project never saw the light of day (Schwarzenegger wasn’t interested), so Rodriguez forgot about it until last year when 20th Century Fox dug it up, realized it was sitting on a golden opportunity and asked him to make it.





Based on the clips, trailers and a lengthy talk by Rodriguez and Antal, here’s what we know about the film.

A band of humans are transported to a jungle planet that’s been set up by the Predators to serve as a sort of game preserve. The Predators were frustrated that the humans had gotten the better of them in previous meetings, so they decided to turn this planet into a hunting ground, a place where they can study the humans, hunt them and kill them, and in the process, learn their ways.

The humans are strangers to one another when they arrive, but they all have one thing in common: They are all ruthless killers. Among the hunted are a yakuza assassin (Louis Ozawa Changchien), a black-ops agent (Alice Braga), an army serviceman (Adrian Brody) and a convicted murderer who was just days away from execution when he was sent to the planet. Each character has his or her own particular talent, and they quickly realize that if they band together and work as a team, they can outwit the Predators and survive. But none of them are exactly the cooperative type, so keeping egos in check for the sake of the greater good is a challenge.

The film’s plot, it was noted, is an homage to Richard Connell’s short story, “The Most Dangerous Game.” Rodriguez originally wrote Predators before any of the Alien vs. Predator films, so it doesn’t really reference those story lines.

There are actually two tribes of Predators on the planet, but Rodriguez and Nimrod were sketchy about how exactly both of them are represented in the movie. What we did learn is that, like the humans, each Predator has its own personality and its own hunting technique. Since each Predator has a unique hunting technique, every time one of the humans meets his or her demise in the film, the kill scene is handled differently. Rodriguez and Antal promised several really bloody and unique kill scenes.

“We went out of our way to stay true to the fact that they are hunters,” Antal said. There were some kills in the script Antal wasn’t sure they’d be able to include without losing the film’s R rating because they were so over-the-top and bloody. But Fox encouraged him to shoot them anyway so they could be included on the unrated DVD.

Also, there are no computer-generated Predators. All of the alien characters were done with actors, suits and animatronics, a fact that drew a cheer from the crowd. It’s all about being able to see the actors’ eyes, Antal said during a press briefing Saturday.

The original Predator from the first movie also makes a cameo appearance in the new film.

Rodriguez went the extra mile and hired Greg Nicotero, the effects artist from the original Predator film, to design and build the monsters for the new movie. Nicotero joined the duo onstage and even brought out the original Predator head. He set it up on the edge of the stage and let everyone in the theater get up close to it and take a picture.

The team showed us two trailers, one that concentrated on the action sequences and a longer one that gave us a bit more insight into the human characters. The first trailers will be released next week, playing in front of Repo Men.

We also got to see a short, two-minute clip from the movie. Brody and the other humans have just killed one of the Predators in the jungle, and as they regroup and talk about what their next step should be, they realize they are being watched.

It was very rough footage — “straight off the Avid,” Rodriguez said — but it was humorous and displayed that playful, chewy dialogue Rodriguez is known for.

Predators will be released in July.

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http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xck...nes_shortfilms

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Predators director Nimrod Antal is going for a specific feel with his July horror pic: namely, he's aiming to deliver a film more akin to the original Predator than its gimmicky subsequent sequels. It doesn't hurt that, under producer Robert Rodriguez's Troublemaker Studios banner, Antal enjoys a freedom and creativity that he might not have gotten otherwise -- or that his star, Adrien Brody, is a critically acclaimed, Oscar-winning actor.

After opening SXSW with a first look at Predators, all three men spoke to a small gathering of press in Austin to discuss their filmmaking choices and geeky enthusiasm for the franchise.

Predators follows a group of human mercenaries and killers being hunted on a Predator training planet, so Antal wanted to build the story's innate tension the old school way. His intent was to "take it back to what works in classic horror films [by] trying to keep the monster in the shadows as opposed to throwing him in your face right off the bat." "If you look at the timeline on the first film," Antal continued, "I think 40 minutes into the film is the first time you see the cloaked Predator. So we concentrated on trying to bring that back into it, and I think we were successful."

There were lessons Antal and Rodriguez took from previous sequels Predator 2, Alien vs. Predator, and AvP:R, although both were pointedly unspecific in their criticisms. "It’s easy to be a jerk and go back and say what didn’t work at the time," Rodriguez explained, "and then you go back and say, well, Predator 2 was slightly in the future and that maybe pulled you that much further away from the characters that you could not relate to because they were not current. Or you could say that AvP did not work because it became too much of an ultimate fighting champion bout rather than concentrating on character. So we’ve had the benefit of being able to see in the pictures what didn’t work and now we can know what not to do, but had we been second, maybe we would have done something completely different too."

Because of Rodriguez's reputation for delivering films expediently, he says that Fox left him and Antal to their own devices with little studio intervention. What that freedom afforded was the ability to let loose the creative impulse, resulting in the spate of new Predator concept art that Antal and Rodriguez showed at Friday's footage event.. Though SXSW-goers got a glimpse of Predators and strange Predator creatures of all shapes and styles that the artists at Troublemaker Studios came up with, not all of them will make it into the final film.

"I had forgotten how much art we had cranked out," said Rodriguez. "Most of it was done by three guys that work at Troublemaker Digital who were churning out stuff to see, because I said let’s see a lot of ideas so we can pick the best design. Create with this jawbone or that eye set, this body… and as I looked, we just had so much great stuff that I said, let’s just put it all up so people can see how difficult it would be to go through that process."

One element Antal and Rodriguez wanted to include was a measurement of humor to lighten the proceedings and keep the violent hunter-and-prey set-up entertaining. "For misdirection, humor works," explained Rodriguez, "and for overall entertainment value, when an audience is [audibly reacting] they know they’re having a good time. So you do want that, but you don’t want them to roll their eyes. A lot of my notes on the script were, I’d get to a line and go, 'No one’s going to laugh at this. They’re going to roll their eyes.'”

Some of the best comic moments in the SXSW Predators footage came surprisingly from Adrien Brody, whose character emerges as the leader of the human targets trying to fend off their alien hunters. Still, his performance is as serious-minded as you'd expect given his dramatic acting chops, even if he's not a typical muscle-bound hero with a physicality like original Predator star Arnold Schwarzenegger.

"I think the intention of hiring me to play Royce was to delve into a kind of flawed, tragic hero and not this kind of typical overtly physically imposing character," explained Brody, who remembers going to see the original film in theaters when he was, as he puts it, "a scrawny little 14-year-old."

"I know I’m not the obvious choice," he continued. "I get that. I know I probably wouldn’t have even been on the studio’s list, let alone down at the bottom. You can ask Robert; I’m very persistent and I’m very focused. I give my word that I know what I need to do to deliver a level of truth and authenticity with a role like this, and also make it fun and exciting."

Though Brody did put on 25 pounds of muscle for the role, it was his psychological preparation during filming that got him prepped, method-style: "My nightly ritual was like poring over survival manuals and military and paramilitary training books. I was reading Sun Tzu, I was studying meditation, I was on a very strict diet, I wasn’t drinking, I wasn’t eating sugar, I wasn’t having sex. I was very focused. I had to kind of go there for me because this is a tremendous opportunity for me. I’m a huge fan of the brand and I’m a huge fan of the genre and the original film. I know that I have a big responsibility to convey a sense of truth in my performance, and it was very exciting."

Predators hits theaters July 7.

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First full trailer - http://movies.ign.com/dor/objects/42...0.html?show=hi

[scouse mac]

Originally Posted by _____V_____

First full trailer - http://movies.ign.com/dor/objects/42...0.html?show=hi

It looks very, very promising. Hope it lives up to the expectation.

[milktoaste]

you can catch the preview for Predotrs if you go see Repo Men. My producer saw it yesterday and siad it looked preety good.

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Here are some interesting facts:

- Most of the film is being done practically and it’ll have limited CGI work

- No CGI Predators

- CGI will be used to cloak and de-cloak the Predators

But I’ve left out the best part:

Predators is not some PG-13 cop-out of a film. Instead, the team at Troublemaker Studios is making a hard-R with extreme fighting and violence that should make every Predator fan excited for this film and counting down the days till its July 9th release date.


http://www.collider.com/2010/05/06/p...ery-impressed/

http://www.collider.com/2010/05/06/g...-group-on-set/

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