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Wednesday, October 7
Adrien Brody has been cast in Predators, the sequel to Predator being written and produced by Robert Rodriguez and directed by Nimrod Antal, and THR reports he won't be alone.
Joining Brody will be Alice Braga (I Am Legend), Mahershalalhashbaz Ali (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button), Walton Goggins (The Shield), UFC fighter Oleg Taktarov, and Danny Trejo, who was the first Predators cast member to be revealed. Topher Grace is also in negotiations to join the cast.
According to a recent script review, Brody will play Royce, a man kidnapped and brought to a Predator planet to join an international gang of ruthless criminals and thugs who must survive being hunted by a group of Predators. Trejo will play Cuchillo, a Mexican enforcer with "twin Uzis strapped to his back." Braga will play the sniper-toting, French-speaking Isabelle, while Taktarov will play former Russian special ops agent Nikolai. Goggins will play Stans, a former San Quintin prisoner who is the "loose cannon" of the group, and Ali will play Mombasa, a member of the African Sierra Leone death squad who is not afraid to die. Should Grace officially join the cast, he will play Edwin, an unassuming accountant-type who is one of the FBI's most wanted serial killers. The only role left to cast is Hanzo, a Japanese yakuza enforcer.
Predators begins shooting next month in Hawaii, with a scheduled release date of opens July 9, 2010.
Posted 10/7/2009 by Ryan
Related: Adrien Brody | Alice Braga | Walton Goggins | Robert Rodriguez | Topher Grace | Oleg Taktarov | Predators | Mahershalalhashbaz Ali
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Producer Robert Rodriguez's reboot of the popular Predator franchise has just gotten a big boost from an actor with some serious skills.
THR announced yesterday that Oscar-winner Adrien Brody would be joining the cast of Predators as the leader of a group of deadly humans on the run from the alien manhunters.
This development was not met with joy by The New York Post's Jarett Wieselman, who said:
If I was combing through a crowd of actors for one I could trust to get me to the chopper, I'd blow right past Adrien Brody and keep holding out for a hero.
What do you think, Predator fans? Are you happy with this turn of events, or does it have you tempted to "write off" the entire production?
Next Showing: Predators opens July 9, 2010
Posted 10/7/2009 by BrentJS
Related: Adrien Brody | Robert Rodriguez | Predators
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Friday, October 2
LatinoReview managed to get a copy of the script for Predators, the sequel written and produced by Robert Rodriguez and directed by Nimrod Antal. The script, dated July 12, 2009, was described as "awesome" and a "90-page kick-ass sci-fi action movie worthy of the original" that is a "bloody, violent, hard-R script."
Fanboy enthusiasm aside, the review also outlines the plot of movie. Predators follows Royce, who, after a rooftop gun battle, is kidnapped by a Predator and brought back to the Predator home planet where he is thrown in with 7 tough-as-nails humans, mostly criminals who are "predators in their own right." The group of humans have been assembled as prey for the Predators to hunt and must try to survive in the jungle preserve of the Predator home planet. They are hunted by "Predator dogs, Predator falcons," and a "Black Super Predator," described as a "Predator jacked up on steroids."
The script also reveals a possible cameo for Arnold Schwarzenegger. Rodriguez has already reached out to the Governator, but there's no word yet on whether he will return.
While the cast of humans hasn't been set, Danny Trejo, Rodriguez's upcoming lead in Machete, recently said "we'll be doing Predator[s] next," revealing he has been cast in the project. The script review speculates that Trejo will play Cuchillo, a "Mexican enforcer" who has "twin Uzis strapped to his back."
To watch the video of LatinoReview's Predators script review of, head here.
Next Showing: Predators opens July 17, 2010
Posted 10/2/2009 by Ryan
Related: Danny Trejo | Robert Rodriguez | Predators
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Monday, August 31
The jungles of Hawaii could soon be visited by a famous predator. Or rather, several famous Predators. Reel Hawaii recently reported that producer Robert Rodriguez's movie Predators may be partially shot in Hawaii.
Scouts for 20th Century Fox's $40-million creature feature are back on the Big Island for their third week of scouting Hawaii, most of it where a lot of jungles have been looked at. The production would film for 18 days with an October start if the Hawaii portion is a go.
Rodriguez has gone on record as saying that Predators is not a relaunch; it's a direct sequel to 1987's Predator. Rodriguez said that the film will not take place on earth and that he hopes that "people will forget all the bad sequels and only think this one and the original exist."
Nimród Antal (Vacancy) will direct from a script by Rodriguez, Michael Finch and Alex Litvak.
Posted 8/31/2009 by BrentJS
Related: Robert Rodriguez | Predator | Predators | Nimrod Antal
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Tuesday, June 30
Predators, the sequel conceived and produced by Robert Rodriguez, may have found a director in Nimrod Antal and not Neil Marshall, as was previously rumored. Antal is a young director, whose credits include the ho-hum thriller Vacancy and the upcoming heist drama Armored, starring Laurence Fishburne and Matt Dillon that opens December 4.
Predators will be based on a Rodriguez treatment written 15 years ago. It's set on a "jungle-like Predator planet" and may include a cameo from Predator star Arnold Schwarzenegger. Alex Litvak is writing the script.
Next Showing: Predators opens July 17, 2010
Posted 6/30/2009 by Ryan
Related: Arnold Schwarzenegger | Neil Marshall | Robert Rodriguez | Predator | Predators
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Thursday, June 11
Rob Cohen has decided not to reunite with Vin Diesel. The director and star were both set to return for XXX: The Return of Xander Cage, when Cohen jumped at the chance to direct Medieval, a movie that Cohen describes as "The Magnificent Seven in the Middle Ages."
Cohen and Diesel had also worked together on The Fast and the Furious and were supposed to reunite for XXX: State of the Union. However, both left that project. Cohen wasn't happy about leaving the third XXX either:
It was a tough decision about XXX. I talked to Vin over the weekend and said I hoped they would wait, but that if they find another director who's right for the sequel, I certainly wouldn't be angry. But I could not let something like this go.
Medieval looks to bring warriors together from disparate cultures and was written by Alex Litvak (Predators) and Michael Finch. McG will produce.
Posted 6/11/2009 by Ryan
Related: Rob Cohen | Vin Diesel | XXX: State of the Union | The Fast and the Furious | McG | XXX | Predators
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Tuesday, June 9
Most of what has leaked about Gamer so far is admittedly not very funny. Where's the humor in be manipulated in combat to the death by some master computer geek? But there is a lighter side to this dystopian tale of future gaming, John Leguizamo tells Sci Fi Wire. Leguizamo, who plays the character Freek in the movie, says he is there primarily to provide some comic relief:
I'm like a Renfield in the Dracula story, that crazy guy who's locked up in an insane asylum ... I'm in there; I have all this information, and I'm in the prison. I'm in the game.
In the game, but not involved in the butt-kicking so much. That, he says, he is leaving up to Gerard Butler, who plays Kable, the cyber-gladiator at the center of the action.
Posted 6/9/2009 by Rich Z
Related: Robert Rodriguez | Sin City | Fanboys | Sin City 2 | Planet Terror | Shorts | Predators | The Jetsons | Adam F. Goldberg
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Friday, June 5
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.
Posted 6/5/2009 by Ryan
Related: Arnold Schwarzenegger | Robert Rodriguez | Predator 2 | Predator | Predators
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Thursday, April 30
What, AVP wasn't enough a reboot? It's true, despite both Alien vs. Predator and Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem, a second reboot is underway, this time with director Robert Rodriguez serving as producer for the movie.
AICN reached out to Rodriguez, who explained how Predators came into being:
Way back before I did Desperado, I had taken a writing assignment for a sequel to Predator. With a nod toward [James] Cameron's Aliens I decided to call it Predators. I set it on a jungle-like Predator planet. Fast forward 15 years to when I got a call from Alex Young over at Fox, who had been digging around and found my original treatment. So the next stage is finding a writer and director to come in and work with us to bring it to life. Whether or not it will ultimately be based on the treatment or not is still unknown at this time.
So while Rodriguez will not direct or write, he has plenty in mind for the movie:
What I'd like to do with it is expand on ideas I dreamt up back in the original treatment, that had really expanded on the universe both the Predators and other species live in. We'd create new otherworldly characters while not taking away from the draw our main Predator has.
Next Showing: Predators is set for release on July 7, 2010
Posted 4/30/2009 by Ryan
Related: James Cameron | Robert Rodriguez | Desperado | Alien vs. Predator | Predator | Aliens | Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem | Predators