They should have dropped the predator in the blasket islands in 1893 and let a spry 20 year old peg sayers fight it that would show all those virtue signalling people
Tell me you're insecure without telling me you're insecure.
You could write any number of ways if you really wanted to. For example, I'd write a scene where the kid tricks the Predator into the path of a some bear cubs and it gets jumped by a pissed off grizzly. Gored by stampeding bison. The young girl acts submissive and no threat, so the Predator ignores her, then she stabs the **** out if it as it passes. Traps, luck, whatever, its all about how you write it.
My problem isn't how you write a young indian girl surviving against a predator. My issue is the pandering and the virtue signalling. She can't just be an indian girl, no, she has to be a trend setting strong woman out to prove that women are the best. Sick of that shite.
More power to 'em, I say. The world would be a poorer and less wonderfully weird place if we didn't have this and all the other sorts of slash that the likes of AO3 is full of...
You guys joke, but I guarantee you there's what you describe, or something akin to it, somewhere in deviantart and/or tumblr, right now.
I can see it now, the entire sequence presented as a Predator-POV-shot in nightvision...
"He was the hunter, but little did he know... she would capture his heart"
See, it practically writes itself :D
And he falls for her as he watches her sleep at night.
Cry me a river.
oh you could be on to something
I'm defo still going to watch ,
Unlessss ... it's a teenage Predator 🤔
Your correct but i cant see a teenage girl or a teenage boy defeating the Predator ,
As is your prerogative; in fact if I'm thinking now, ALL the Predator films' finales involve the hero having to abandon tech., go to back to their wits & primordial skills to win the day. While the Preadators' code seems to insist on meeting its opponents at their level or thereabouts. Least setting it in a historical era bypasses that inevitable 2nd to 3rd act switch 😆
You missed the point entirely.
Intentionally of course, no doubt about that.
I'm still not buying it,
More to the point, has nobody here watched movies before? The whole "young [women|man] proves their worth while authority scoffs and says OH NO YOU DON'T" is an established trope of Hollywood, it's not modern at all. Sure, maybe back in the '50s it was tinged with a fair bit of "gosh-gee, ain't it crazy, a dame working on a car!!!" energy, but ... eh, I dunno. It's 2022 I suppose.
I mean, it doesn't look great, and the age rating is a problem straight out the gate, but Midthunder is a good actor, and Trachtenberg a proven director. This is unlikely to take over as the nadir of the franchise.
It's disgusting that the libtards in Hollywood are ignoring historical accuracy in this film about an alien coming to earth to hunt people for sport.
The very first line of the trailer is:
"Why do you want to hunt?"
"Because you all think that I can't".
Its crystal clear why we are looking at a female protagonist, and it sure isn't for historical accuracy.
Read what I said again 🙂 I didn't say it was his brute strength, I said it "wasn't Arnie's brute strength" that worked but hunting smarts and using the terrain.
You just reaffirmed what i was saying ,
I said the audience wouldn't buy a teenage girl killing a predator without advanced weaponry & you replied that Arnie did it with "brute strength" something a teenage girl would be missing, hence the need for weaponry ,
Arnie falling in muck and hiding his body temperature played a part in killing a predator and arnie out smarted it and then trapped it before blowing it up and to be honest arnie being covered in muck was the moment the predator franchise lost all credibility because this super advanced race lost to man covered in muck.
Arnie didn't defeat the Predator with advanced weaponry, in fact the first film made pains to show how ineffective it was. By the end it wasn't Arnie's brute strength that won him the battle, but his hunting and trapping skills. Which ... yeah, a nomadic tribe like the Comanche might understand.
the Predators tended to fight you based on what you bring to the fight.
Guess who else just lost all credibility?
Everything Predator should & will be held against the master piece of Predator 1 ,
There is no way you can convince an audience that a teenage girl with no advanced weaponry can kill a Predator ( based on the Predator from Predator 1 )without the Predator losing all credibility ,
Why shouldn't it be a woman?
Have you read the thread?
Why is the main star a women , its literally token Hollywood look we are not sexiest,
Is this R rated ?
Is it true there will be a version in native American
The idea is great. But yeah, I was a bit put-off by the VERY American accent on the main actor. But again, it can't be some PG/family-friendly diet-Predator movie.
I actually didn't "get" predator the first time I saw it. Had missed it in the cinema. Finally saw it on a portable black-and-white TV. Hah. So I didn't get the hype initially. It's only later that it grew on me. It truly is a classic of its time.
I know times have changed and I'm all for it. I have ZERO problem with the protagonist being female. But some things SHOULDN'T change in a predator move. There needs to be blood. There needs to be violence but not CGI-Starship-Troopers type stuff. I don't want to see some CGI rag-doll human being ripped in half... But I do want to see spines :)
I know that sounds like I should seek mental health 😀 but you know what I mean. I want to see old-school Predator violence. Not family friendly shenanigans and not an OTT CGI-fest.
I'm staying positive for that reason. Make it a simple nuts & bolts story and it might work out OK. I don't think the trailer makes it look especially great, but I do rate Dan Trachtenberg.
Then again, I rate Shane Black even more, and look how that turned out with his Predator movie!
lol no was my first reaction 😁 but that's more because it helped me join some dots..
even the idea of a pg-13 rating helped me clock something. Grace reacted to the trailer earlier and was surprised it wasn't going to cinemas.
Seeing the age discussion even come up filled that in for me.
PG-13 might make some bank in a Cinema release but this ain't going to cinema so your post go me with a straight AAaaaaaaah Of course! moment.
Sure enough, wiki confirms the R Rating:
this:
Former 20th Century Studios Production president Emma Watts fast tracked the development of the film prior to her resignation in January 2020.[9] It was conceived as an R-rated film.[10]
and this:
Rating
Despite being conceived as having an R rating, Davis said that the film could potentially be cut to achieve a PG-13 rating.[10] In June 2022, Tranchberg revealed that the film would be rated R.[18]
Quite like the look of that actually, back to basics after the disaster the last one was. Looks in a similar vein to 'Predators' - just taking it back to nuts and bolts survivalism against the Predator. That puts a ceiling on it, but means it'll probably be decent fun at least.
Is it true it's going to be rated PG or for over 13s? If so I'll give it a miss at the cinema.
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