We already know that Adrien Brody and Topher Grace recently joined the cast of Robert Rodriguez’s Predators, rounding out an ensemble that includes Alice Braga as a tough female killer, Mahershalalhashbaz Ali as a man not afraid of death, Walt Goggins as a loose cannon, and UFC fighter Oleg Taktarov as an ex-Russian special ops agent. Oh, yeah, and Danny Trejo as Cuchillo, a Mexican drug cartel enforcer.
Over the weekend, actor Derek Mears (Jason Voorhees from the rebooted Friday the 13th feature) confirmed to DreadCentral that he has been cast as well. “People were talking for a couple of weeks, but I wasn’t able to confirm,” he said. “I kept assuring the filmmakers that I was not the leak. Now it’s out there, but I’m still not saying who I play.”
In the film, the group are all kidnapped by the Predators and taken to the creatures’ home world to be hunted for sport. Eventually, the human gang comes across an American, who has been hiding from the Predators for years and explains to the new “prey” what’s going on. It’s widely expected that this particular role is being reserved for Arnold Schwarzenegger, and that it is the role he played in the original Predator film, that of “Dutch”.
Predators is directed by Nimrod Antal (Vacancy) and scheduled to arrive in theaters on July 7, 2010.
“Predators” is going to start its production soon. Production Weekly, via its Twitter page, has informed that the new extraterrestrial thriller film will begin shooting in late September. The publication additionally mentioned that its principal photography will take place at producer Robert Rodriguez’s studio in Austin, Texas.
“Nimrod Antal is scheduled to being filming on Fox’s reboot of ‘Predators,’ on Sept 28th at Robert Rodriguez’s Troublemaker Studios in Austin,” read the statement on the Twitter page. The sci-fi movie will be directed by Antal whose first American film was Kate Beckinsale and Luke Wilson’s “Vacancy”, while Robert Rodriguez will serve as the producer.
Plan of making the reboot of the “Predator” series was first confirmed by Rodriguez in April. Soon after, it was announced that 20th Century Fox planned to release the reboot on July 7, 2010. So far, the studio has not named any actors/actress for the cast ensemble, though Rodriguez previously has expressed his interest of having the original film’s star, Arnold Schwarzenegger, in this new movie.
Written by Alex Litvak and Michael Finch, “Predators” is said to offer “a bold new chapter in the Predator universe”. The story allegedly will deal with a very intense group of people stranded on a Predator planet discovering unspeakable horrors that are not always from outside their group.
A team of mercenaries head to South America on a mission to overthrow a dictator.
Sylvester Stallone is the Director and Writer
Cast
Sylvester Stallone … Barney Ross
Jason Statham … Lee Christmas
Jet Li … Bao
Dolph Lundgren … Gunnar Jensen
Eric Roberts … Monroe
Randy Couture … Toll Road
Steve Austin … Dan Paine
David Zayas … General Garza
Giselle Itié … Sandra
Terry Crews … Hale Caesar
Mickey Rourke … Tool
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Brittany Murphy … Amy
X-Men Origins Wolverine on Blu Ray DVD
Make Up Department
Nikki I Brown … makeup artist
Scott H. Eddo … makeup department head
Stacy Kelly … key makeup artist
Rick Stratton … special tattoos
Amy Wood … assistant hair stylist
Special Effects Department
Marcio Bittencourt Farjalla … pyro/ weapons house manager
Garry Cooper … special effects workshop supervisor
Lawrence Decker … special effects technician
Erika Faccini … special effects producer
Sergio Farjalla Jr. … special effects coordinator
Giuliano Fiumani … special effects senior technician
Alexander Gunn … special effects floor supervisor: Brazil
Graham Hills … senior special effects technician
Edward Joubert … special effects technician
Michael Kay … special effects engineer
Jeff Khachadoorian … special effects co-supervisor
Jack Lynch … second unit coordinator
Jeff Ogg … special effects co-coordinator
Richard E. Perry … special effects foreman
Bob Trevino … special effects technician
Andy Weder … special effects supervisor
Jeffery D. Woodrel … special effects technician
by John Winn
For the next “Predator” movie, the franchise may be getting a taste of goulash along with its staple of blood and gore.
According to Daily Variety, Hungarian-American film director Nimrod Antal, known for his 2007 movie, “Vacancy,” starring Kate Beckinsale and Luke Wilson, has been tapped by Fox to film the next film in the popular “Predator” franchise.
The move follows the studio’s decision to bring director Robert Rodriguez on board to give the series a much needed makeover.
In addition to Rodriguez, Antal will be working alongside screenwriters Alex Litvak and Michael Finch in overseeing the film.
Besides slasher films such as “Vacancy,” Antal also directed the critically acclaimed “Kontroll” in his ancestral home of Hungary, which won him several awards, including the coveted Gold Hugo Award at the Chicago Film Festival.
The Antal-helmed film will be the fifth in a string of “Predator” films dating back to Arnold Schwarzenegger’s appearance in the first film in 1987. Since then, the franchise has spawned several sequels, including “Predator 2,” starring Danny Glover, and the “Alien Vs. Predator” spin-off franchise.
The film is expected to be released in 2010.
Master Makeup Effects Man Shannon Shea led the team on the original Predator..read his exclusive interview here
Lionsgate and Nu Image/Millennium, the two companies behind the Conan reboot, might have found their new Conan — and he bears striking similarities to the old Conan.
The companies are in talks with a 41-year-old Austrian actor named Roland Kickinger to play the title role that Arnold Schwarzenegger made famous in the 1982 classic “Conan the Barbarian.”
There are more than a few eerie parallels between the personalities.
Like Schwarzenegger, Kickinger is a bodybuilder- turned-actor from the Central European country.
Like the California governor, he also had a role as a T-800 in the “Terminator” franchise (in Warner Bros.’ current “Terminator Salvation”).
And in a you-can’t-make-this-stuff-up turn, Kickinger actually played a Conan-era version of Schwarzenegger in “See Arnold Run,” the 2005 A&E biopic about the actor-turned-politician.
Universal’s original “Conan,” which vaulted Schwarzenegger to fame and a slew of action tentpoles, follows a man who seeks revenge on the person who sold him into slavery.
Few details on the new pic have been revealed, though the character is expected to be given a polish, with the filmmakers drawing influences from more recent action pics. Shooting will begin in the fall at Avi Lerner’s Bulgaria-based studio. Marcus Nispel, who helmed New Line’s “Friday the 13th” reboot, is set to direct.
No word on whether Arnold will make a cameo — or on whether Kickinger will run for governor.
Yesterday, CHUD received word from an inside source that Marcus Nispel has been officially signed as the director of the new Conan reboot. This report has now been officially confirmed by the trades, and Nispel will indeed be the man that replaces Brett Ratner, who stepped away from the project recently, as director. Marcus Nispel is best known as the man behind some of the big horror movie reboots of late, including The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and Friday the 13th.
After Ratner’s departure, the aforementioned CHUD was told of four possible directors that were up for the job: James McTeigue (V for Vendetta, Ninja Assassin), Christopher Gans (Silent Hill, Brotherhood of the Wolf), Neil Marshall (The Descent, Doomsday), and Nispel.
At first, it seemed like McTeigue or Marshall were the best choices, though Nispel works here, too. While you may or may not be a big fan of his horror efforts, you can’t deny that they’re incredibly well-done visually. With this, you have to imagine that a solid, violent (assuming), stylized Conan adventure could be a real success. Much more so than it would have been in Ratner’s hands, this is for sure.
Originally, in Conan the Barbarian and Conan the Destroyer, Conan was played by the young, giant muscle that was Arnold Schwarzenegger. At the moment, there is no word as to who will take on the role, but it is something that we should know soon due to the fact that the studios wanted this project in motion and filming by the end of this summer.
The way things have been going with Terminator Salvation and now with Predators, it is only a matter of time before Nispel begins wooing Schwarzenegger to make a cameo as some aged, retired warrior who is filled with wisdom.
What would a Predator sequel be without Arnold Schwarzenegger? Why, Predator 2, of course, which is the kind of cinematic blunder Robert Rodriguez wants to avoid on Predators, an official sequel and not a remake or reboot of the 1987 original.
MovieHole reports that Rodriguez has “reached out to Schwarzenegger” to reprise his role of Dutch from the first Predator. However, Rodriguez and his Troublemaker Studios “haven’t had a response yet” from Schwarzenegger. Being Governor of California takes time away from returning phone calls, it seems.
The Predators script, based on a 15-year-old treatment by Rodriguez and rewritten by Alex Litvak, will not feature Schwarzenegger in a starring role, but rather a smaller, supporting one. The script is apparently “violent — like the original” and “packed with action.” A director for Predators has yet to be named, with Rodriguez serving only as producer for the movie.
Robert Rodriguez had this to say at a recent press conference:
“I’m going to be able to shoot my upcoming Machete here, a sci-fi action film called Nervewrackers, a re-boot of the Predator series called Predators, and a couple of smaller movies called Sin City 2 and The Jetsons”.
Predator 2 is the 1990 film starring Danny Glover and Gary Busey. Written by Jim & John Thomas and directed by Stephen Hopkins, the film is a sequel to the successful 1987 film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. The cast is almost entirely new, apart the Predator again played by actor Kevin Peter Hall.
Stan Winston Studios created the tremendous creature effects.
The Story – In 1997, Los Angeles is suffering from both a sweltering heat-wave and a vicious street war between police, Colombian, and Jamaican drug gangs. Engaged in a protracted shootout with the Colombians are police detectives Leona Cantrell (Maria Conchita Alonso) and Danny Archuleta (Ruben Blades) as they await the aid of their boss, veteran Lieutenant Michael Harrigan (Danny Glover). After an intense firefight, Harrigan’s aggressive tactics force the criminals to withdraw into a nearby building. A series of explosions rock the structure, followed by mysterious gunfire. Harrigan proceeds inside against orders, only to find the Colombians have been mysteriously slaughtered. He follows the one survivor to the roof of the structure and shoots him. After the Colombian falls from the roof, Harrigan catches sight of what appears to be the hazy silhouette of a large man, but dismisses it as an effect of the heat.
At the police station, Harrigan is introduced to Special Agent Peter Keyes (Gary Busey), leader of a federal task force purportedly investigating the cartels. Harrigan is also introduced to a new officer for his team, Jerry “The Lone Ranger” Lambert (Bill Paxton).
Later, Jamaican gang members attack the Colombian drug lord at his home, ritualistically murdering him. The Predator takes advantage of the situation and kills the Jamaicans one by one, leaving only the Colombian’s girlfriend alive. Arriving at the scene first, Harrigan and his team enter against orders, observing one of the Predator’s weapons stuck in an air-conditioner before Keyes and his team arrive. Harrigan now suspects that a new “player” has joined the street war. This “player” is actually a Predator on the hunt. Enraged at his defiance, Keyes threatens Harrigan, saying he will ‘disappear’ if he interferes again. Harrigan and Archuleta discuss plans to return to the crime scene later for further investigation into the murders. Archuleta arrives before Harrigan and attempts to retrieve the weapon, which has gone unnoticed by Keyes’ team. Unfortunately, the Predator has also returned to the scene and, revealing itself to Archuleta, attacks and kills him.
Harrigan is devastated, vowing to his superiors and Keyes to destroy the perpetrator responsible for his friend’s death. After Cantrell and Lambert trail Keyes to a slaughterhouse, they visit a pathologist to investigate the weapon Archuleta had found. She discusses its origins, noting the weapon’s material does not correspond with any element on the periodic table. Harrigan decides to set up a meeting with the Jamaican drug lord King Willie, hoping he will know who is attacking them. Willie believes that whoever, or whatever, is involved in the killings of his men is not of this world. More confused than ever, Harrigan leaves – and the Predator immediately attacks and beheads King Willie.
Leona suspects that the killer is toying with Harrigan, as Danny was murdered shortly before Harrigan arrived, while King Willie was killed moments after he left. Cantrell and Lambert, planning to meet Harrigan, are traveling by subway when a group of thugs threaten innocent passengers. They pull guns on each other, causing Lambert and Cantrell to pull their own weapons. As a tense standoff ensues, the Predator suddenly breaks in through the cabin’s roof and attacks in the dark. During the confusion, Cantrell herds the passengers to safety across the next subway cars while Lambert challenges the Predator, keeping it busy. After stopping the train and getting the passengers to the surface, she doubles back to find Lambert has been killed. She searches the empty cars until she encounters the Predator, who scans her body with thermal scan technology. Viewing a fetus within her abdomen, the Predator refrains from attacking.
Harrigan arrives at the new crime scene and discovers Cantrell is still alive. He also surmises that only armed civilians and officers were attacked. Following a blood trail down the subway tunnel, he witnesses the Predator mutilating Lambert’s body – removing his skull and spinal column in their entirety as a trophy. Harrigan pursues the creature, only to be captured by Keyes’ special team.
Keyes finally reveals to Harrigan what he’s dealing with, and that he and his team have been following encounter sites with the “other world life form” ever since Alan “Dutch” Schaeffer (the protagonist of the first film, played by Arnold Schwarzenegger) and his special forces team were attacked in the jungle ten years earlier. Keyes and his men are determined to capture this creature for study, realizing its value as a potential means for immense technological advance. Armed with cryogenic weaponry intended to immobilize the creature, they have set a trap for it in a vacant slaughterhouse which the Predator has been raiding for food. The team wear thermally insulated suits to prevent the Predator from detecting them via infrared. However, the Predator simply switches its helmet’s scanner through a number of different ranges of electromagnetic wavelengths that are available to it, before settling on the ultraviolet spectrum where it is able to see their black lights. The Predator attacks the government team, killing everyone except Keyes. Harrigan, who foresaw trouble, is able to escape custody and heads to confront the Predator.
A short battle follows, in which Keyes is apparently killed. Harrigan is able to shoot down the Predator and remove its mask, but the Predator revives moments later and attacks Harrigan. Keyes, still alive (although horribly scarred by a plasma attack), arrives to battle the creature, using a specialized liquid nitrogen cannon. Keyes demands that Harrigan retreat, as the Predator pulls out a “smart-disc” weapon and throws it at Keyes. The weapon slices Keyes in half. Harrigan and the Predator exchange attacks, as the battle moves to the rooftop. The Predator gets knocked over the side and, hanging from a ledge, attempts to activate the self-destruct device contained in its wrist-mounted computer. However, Harrigan steals the Predator’s smart-disc weapon and uses it to cut the Predator’s forearm off, destroying the self-destruct device in the process. After falling through the window of an adjacent building and tending its wounds the Predator retreats, followed closely by Harrigan, down an elevator shaft to a basement that turns out to be an underground-stationed spaceship. The two have a final duel, ending with Harrigan killing the Predator. The Predator’s clan-mates appear and carry away their fallen warrior, while the elder Predator aboard gives Harrigan an antique flintlock pistol as a sign of respect. Harrigan escapes the ship just as it blasts off into space. The remainder of Keyes’ team arrives, furious that they failed in capturing a Predator. The film ends with Harrigan commenting that they will “get another chance”, implying that the Predators will return to Earth someday.
First Appearance: Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
Specs: The “missing link” between conventional war machines and the Terminators to come, the Series T-1 was created by Cyberdyne’s successors as an “autonomous ground offensive system,” with maneuverable tank treads, a laser targeting system, hear and motion sensors, a durable body and 50-caliber chainguns that fire thousands of rounds per minute. Their weakness: a vulnerable “head” unit – a design flaw that appears remedied by the time of Terminator Salvation.
T-600
First Appearance: The Terminator (mentioned); Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (human design); Terminator Salvation (redesign).
Specs: Designed by Skynet to infiltrate human Resistance cells, the 600s are dismissed by Kyle Reese as easy to spot due to their rubber skin. In T:SCC they are revealed as early-model Terminators having powerful endoskeletons capable of great strength and speed – until their servos are overly taxed – but are obvious to human eyes and relatively simple to disable. By Terminator Salvation, they’ve been reworked as hulking, eight-foot-tall monstrosities armed with a powerful cannon in place of their right arms, roaming on search-and-destroy missions.
Harvester
First Appearance: Terminator Salvation
Specs: Enormous, 80-foot-tall robotic giants with devastating shoulder-mounted cannons, the Harvesters fall somewhere between Terminators and the Hunter-Killer mechanisms employed by Skynet. The Harvesters, which work in concert with Moto-Terminators and Transports, roam the devastated environment of the future in search of human refugees, capturing them for a top-secret experiment.
Moto-Terminator
First Appearance: Terminator Salvation
Specs: Moto-Terminators are non-humanoid constructs in the form of automated high-speed motorcycles, equipped with advanced sensors and side-mounted miniguns. They work in concert with the Harvester to effectively capture or kill humans.
Hydrobot
First Appearance: Terminator Salvation
Specs: Articulated, eel-shaped and equipped with a sharp, claw-like head unit, the Hydobots are aquatic Hunter-Killers that infest and patrol the waters of the post-Judgment Day future.
T-800
First Appearance: The Terminator; Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Played by: Arnold Schwarzenegger
Specs: The ORIGINAL Big Bad of the Terminator mythology – the relentless, seemingly unstoppable killing machine. Using living tissue and biological characteristics – skin, hair, blood, sweat, even bad breath – layered on top of a nearly indestructible endoskeleton, the 800s are cunning infiltrators programmed in the use of every known military weapon, outfitted with extensive sensors and visual enhancements, and able to mimic any human voice it hears. But the most crucial bit of code in its CPU is the command to pursue and terminate its target no matter what kind of damage it suffers. Still don’t get it? Let Kyle Reese enlighten: “He’ll find her! That’s what he does! It’s ALL he does!!” One notable T-800 was captured and reprogrammed by John Connor to time travel into the past to protect his younger self from termination, and – soon demonstrating a capacity to learn and even understand human emotion – proved to be as unshakeable is its commitment to protecting as its counterparts were to killing.
T-850
First Appearance: Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
Played by: Arnold Schwarzenegger
Specs: An upgrade of the 800s constructed in the same image, the 850s were equipped with an increased ability to withstand punishment, improved power cells, internal programming on human emotion and psychology and self-regenerating flesh easily removed for more efficient repairs. The T-850 which ultimately killed John Connor in the future was reprogrammed by Conner’s wife Kate Brewster and sent back into the past to protect him from termination by the T-X.
T-1000
First Appearance: Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Played by: Robert Patrick
Specs: Displaying the characteristic relentlessness of all Terminators combined with a mimetic polyalloy — or “liquid metal” – shape-shifting ability, the Series 1000 is able to perfectly imitate not only human form but any specific individuals and objects that it touched, as well as an array of spiked and bladed solid metal weapon-limbs. The 1000s proved most difficult to destroy due to its extensive ability to self-recover – when damaged, even the tiniest drop of its liquid metal form was compelled to rejoin its main body. Its only apparent vulnerability: exposure to extreme temperatures.
T-X
First Appearance: Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
Played by: Kristana Lokken
Specs: Combining the powerful endoskeleton of the early Terminators – in a lithe female form – with the shape-changing liquid metal sheath of the T-1000s, the T-X also added a few new twists, literally, with its ability to rotate its joints 360 degrees. T-Xs also sport an onboard weapons system – effectively carrying armaments through time travel unlike other Terminator models – reconfiguring its limbs into plasma cannons, flamethrowers, and various caliber firearms. Other enhancements include a titanium fingertip drill, diamond-hard teeth, DNA analysis and the ability to link with electronic systems. But perhaps the most unique weapon in its arsenal – emotions, including the ability to get angry.
“Cameron Phillips“
First Appearance: Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
Played by: Summer Glau
Specs: Cameron is a unique, possibly one-of-a-kind model cast in the form of his Resistance fighter Allison Young for infiltration but reprogrammed by John Connor and sent to the past to protect his younger self. Though she does contain programming allowing her to effectively mimic a full range of human emotions, Cameron – nicknamed “Tin-Miss” – typically acts cold and emotionless, but appears to be slowly gaining an understanding of what it’s like to be human.
T-1001
First Appearance: Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
Played by: Shirley Manson
Specs: A slight advancement of the morphing liquid metal T-1000 series, the most prominent of the 1001s is the Terminator sent to the past to assume the identity of ZeiraCorp CEO Catherine Weaver on a mysterious mission that seemingly opposes Skynet – the first known Terminator to travel backward without the apparent intent of killing OR protecting John Connor.
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