The original “predator” of John Mactirnan was released in June 1987-and it turned out that about stuffy jungle, wrestlers with large machine guns and a stuntman dressed up by a rubber alien (which is still not visible because of the chameeleon camufi), you can make a completely brilliant movie). 23 years later-after the landings of predators in Los Angeles, the Antarctic and the small town in Colorado-we return to the jungle again.

In 1994, the company " The twentieth century Fox "Offered Robert Rodriguez (then still working on" Desperate ") Compose a script for the third part of the" Predator ". The franchise had to be removed from the peak after modest box office " Predator 2 "In the USA ($ 30.6 million with a budget of $ 35 million). Rodriguez talked with Arnold Schwarzenegger, wrote a role specifically for Jean-Claude Van Damma, who, as you know, was the very first predator (dismissed from the set for scandalous behavior), and came up with a very strong plot move.

Imagine the situation: in the yard the mid -nineties, you are sitting in the movie in the third part of the "predator", which, like the first, occurs in the dense jungle. On the screen familiar faces – Schwarzenegger, Van Damm. But the wounded heroes, supporting each other, come out of the thicket, stand on the edge of the abyss and see that the jungle extends below, as far as the eye is enough … And the fragments of the rocks are hovering over them (in the manner of flying islands from " Avatar "). This is another, split, dying world. We are no longer in Kansas!

The connection of times

In 2010, the trailer for “predators” willingly gives us this (and many others) secrets of the film. “They are the most dangerous killers of our planet … But this is another planet! – Edrian Brody looks courageously into the camera. – This planet is a reserve … And we are a game!"

After the Avatar’s cash success, the theme of alien jungle is a burning, and in our time it is impossible to advertise “predators” otherwise. But how great it would be if we, together with the heroes, sneaked in the usual jungle, stumbled upon plants extinct 125 million years ago, saw traces of unknown animals and tried in vain to understand what was happening here.

According to Rodriguez, he really wanted to see a predator in a dense forest again – but in the same jungle the audience would be bored … Therefore, alien stars are burning over a lush Hawaiian flora in the film.

In 1994, the project was postponed to the regiment for budget reasons, and in 2009 they suddenly launched $ 40 million in production with a budget of $ 40 million. For 15 years, much has changed in the world: Schwarzenegger is now a politician who has a weak relationship with the cinema, Rodriguez from the young, who gives the director's hope of hope in the obscenity producer. Even in the ongoing in September " Machete »Rodriguez – screenwriter, producer and just loser (the main directorial work was taken by his former assistant for the installation of Ethan Manikis).

“Predators” was set by another person – director " Collector »Nimrod Antal (an American clipmaker with Hungarian roots, who also shot a horror movie" Vacancy for the victim "), And the script of Rodriguez was rewritten by newcomers Michael Finch and Alex Litvak (both of the predators did not film a single scenario). Rodriguez himself plays in the noble role of the producer and not mentioned in the titrates of the co -author. The main idea of ​​the film remained the same (predator in alien jungle), but in the heroes now not Van Damme with Schwarzenegger, but an international team of special forces, prisoners, maniacs, killer.

In 2004 and 2007, they came out " Alien against the predator " And " Aliens against a predator: Requiem "-with their light hand, the predators managed to turn into good-natured cartoons, almost harmless to people (something like na’vi with plasma guns on their shoulders). In the new film, they will remind us that predators are cosmic serial killers, for which people are of interest only as sources of fresh trophy skulls and spine.

The image of the aliens in the “Predators” resembles the methods of the late maniac of a saw from the same name Horror-Franchise (not without reason before the Antal, the director of the second-third “drank” Darren Bousman was looking at the director's chair. The insidious aliens abduct the individuals of interest to them – who from the cells of the suicide bombers, who from the battlefield – cling to them alien parachutes and dump the territory specially allotted for hunting. In the script of Finch and Litvak https://sister-site.org/luck-of-spins/, some participants do not open parachute-either due to the shortcomings of alien technologies, or because of a kind of sense of humor of predators.

Personal affairs

Among the heroes of the film are the Russian special forces from the Alpha unit (Oleg Taktarov), the Mexican Mafiosi (Danny Trekho), the African thug (Mahershalahkhashbaz Ali), the Japanese Killer (Louis Odzava Changchin) and the American prisoner (Walton Goggins). Looking at the photographs of these glorious guys, we can immediately say that none of them will live to the final of the “predators” – too colorful personalities. But they will try to sell their lives expensive! In the first film, we never saw the final duel of the crazy Indian (Sonny Landham) with a predator – but in “Predators” we should show us in all details a duel of the predator and Yakuza: a Samurai sword against a folding alien blade ..

The protagonist, professional military Roys (Edrian Brody), the beautiful Latin American sniper (Alisa Braga), a quiet person with glasses (Topher Grace), who clearly ended up in this group by mistake, and veteran of Vietnam Noland (Lawrence Fishburn), are standing apart. For many years hiding from predators in the caves and managed to collect a good armor from the hits of aliens who died on hunting.

Brody, as Western observers are thinly noticed, is Arnold Schwarzenegger. But the owner of the Oscar himself does not consider it strange that he was called to the main role. “Look at the photos of real professional soldiers – they look like me! – says Brody, pumping 10 kilograms of muscles for this role. – These are not bodybuilders, but simply well -trained middle -aged people. It is important for me that, with all the fantastic of the plot, realism is present in the film ".

The word "realism" is not often found next to the surname Rodriguez: most of his films occur against the background of virtual decorations. But in an interview with Harry Noules from the site Ain ’T it Cool News Robert Rodriguez promised that there would be only one in the “predators” (!) a frame shot against a green screen. Antal also believes that in a fantastic movie it is important not to get involved in computer graphics. Creating landscapes of someone else's planet, you can’t do without CGI – but, as the director formulates, “all our special effects have a real physical basis. In the role of a predator, we have a real stuntman in a suit, and not an assistant assistant with the Motion Capture sensor on the forehead ".

The film was shot for two weeks in Hawaii, and then built in a camp for Boyskouts in the city of Austin, Texas (where the Rodriguez studio is located TROBLEMAKER ), fake eucalyptus forest. The mountains depicted 29 containers drawn up on each other, and plants brought on a truck from Florida and manually attached each sheet to the scenery. A huge hangar for filming against a green screen, in which Rodriguez shot the whole " The city of sins ", Idle idle ..

The company was engaged in special effects KNB under the guidance of Horror-Master Gregory Nicotero. As a result of their efforts, an ordinary predator was born (which the role of one of the victims is given in the film) and three super -perch from another clan with different styles of people hunting. The number one superkick uses alien hounds with thermal vision and the ability to mimic under the environment (in the script of the beasts are described as “a cross between a tiger, boar and your worst nightmare”, but actually look like horned hyenas). Superhil number two uses an alien hunting hawk (more reminiscent of a giant insect), also with heat vision. Well, the number three superkhchelik wears a black suit – this is the last boss, to the fight with which Edian Brody will have to go out with an alien ax at the ready ..

Antal and Rodriguez say that the new predators differ from the old ones as wolves from dogs: they are larger, stronger, faster and smarter. Nucotero is more figuratively expressed: “If the old design predator is a cassette player, then the superhumor is an iPod”.

There is no beast more bloodthirsty

The creators of the “predators” do not hide that Richard Connell “The most dangerous game” were inspired by the story of Richard-the story was written in 1924, and in 1932 the cinema of the same name was shot (in the scenery from the original ” King Kong ", With Fei Ray in the title role). Since then, the plot has passed from the film to the film without special changes: at first the villain arranges a hunt for a hero, then the hero begins to hunt a villain (and in the best paintings of this kind of heroes are much more insidious and dangerous hunters than villains).

In the middle of the film, people arrange a hunt for superhumans: Brody-with a drum grenade launcher, three-with a pair of machine guns and a huge machete, mash-with a sniper rifle, and tacters-with a six-barrel machine gun (in an interview, Oleg boasts that he was more serious than Jesse Ventura from the original film, and if desired, he could "mow all the jungle")). The epic battle begins ..

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Arnold Schwarzenegger in the film will not even appear on the rights of Camoo (although the creators planned an alternative ending in which the aged Danch is the leader of ordinary predators who flew to the help). But “predators” have other signs of classic action-kino-these are emphasized non-memorial special effects, terribly bloody killings, and the name hinting at the “strangers” James Cameron.

In the same July, it comes out " Start "Christopher Nolan, who many consider the main fantastic action movie of the year, but the" twentieth century Fox "has no doubt that the" predators "can compete for this title.

“We focused on the atmosphere of the first“ predator ” – tense, anxious, complete action, Saspensa,” says Brody. – A whole genre of militants has grown from the “predator”, but two decades have passed, technology has changed … We now have more filming tools. Why don't we make our cinema even larger and exciting?"