14 DAY TRIAL // Fans of the “Predator” franchise were a bit taken aback when legendary director Robert Rodriguez announced that he would personally see to a reboot of the franchise. Subsequent announcements that Adrien Brody and Laurence Fishbourne had been cast in the film were welcomed with suspicion and even sneers. Fans who attended this year's SXSW film festival got to see what the upcoming film has in store for them, as Cinema Blend can confirm.
Audience members were treated with fresh footage from the set of the film and what could be a future trailer, amounting to about a full minute of complete footage, together with some insight from none other than Rodriguez himself. Director Nimrod Antal also showed some footage. More details about the film have been revealed as well, such as that it will not come in 3D because Robert Rodriguez is not quite sold on it, and that it will be R-rated, so fans should expect a lot of gore and a massive body count.
“Predators is far from finished with post-production, but the duo showed two, slightly different trailers for the film along with sixty seconds or so of mostly completed footage. The first trailer should be released for general consumption in front of Repo Men, coming soon to a theater near you. While you wait, here’s what I know: Predators is going to be [awesome]. The trailers are atmospheric, creepy and clearly geared towards marketing the film as horror, not thriller/action as the most recent Alien vs. Predator movies have been. It introduces all the primary characters while revealing little of their intentions. It’s suspenseful and dark. More than a Predator movie, it reminded me of the original Alien movie in tone. The score they use is haunting and there’s little doubt that this is a very rated-R film,” Cinema Blend writes.
“The story, as explained by Rodriguez is this: A tribe of predators has kidnapped a group of humans, the most deadly killers to be found on planet Earth, and dropped them on an alien planet which serves as a predator game preserve (note: It is not the predator home world). Think of it like a fisherman stocking his pond with trout. The primary trout here are played by Adrien Brody (who has seriously bulked up and against all odds is utterly convincing as a total [bad guy]), Topher Grace (who still looks like Topher Grace), Danny Trejo, and Alice Braga. They’ve been dropped in with no idea how they got there or who brought them, and they don’t really get along,” the same movie-oriented publication writes.
One of the videos introduced at SXSW is below, the one presented by Robert Rodriguez. The teaser poster for “Predators” (attached to this article) was released a few hours before footage from the film was shown. Enjoy and keep an eye on this space for more details on this.