Olivia Munn flips through a still of the first Predator on a tablet early on (who… took that photo?), but otherwise dialogue and visual references to the first movie are sparse.
They provide enough information back to the government that people are ready the next time a Predator shows up. Two people survived that movie: Arnold’s Dutch and Anna, played by lpidia Carrillo. There are references to a Predator incident in 1987, the first time Project Stargazer (the group studying the Predators) was made aware of the creatures existence. The Predator owes everything to the first film even if it’s relatively light on direct references. “So I totally got it, you know? If I was Schwarzenegger, I’d want to be one of the stars of a film, or nothing.” Dutch isn’t given a proper shoutout by name in the film, nor does he appear. I’m off to do Terminator with Jim Cameron,’ basically.,” Black said.
“He said, ‘Look, that’s kind of a small part, and I don’t really think I want to do that. As Shane Black told Digital Spy, he understands why. There was a part written for Arnold Schwarzenegger’s “Dutch” in The Predator, but the actor turned down. Here’s how the Predator universe has worked itself out over 30 years in existence:Ģ0th Century Fox How does The Predator connect to Predator? The Predator does a little retroactive continuity work, rushes through some plot points, then ends with a suggestion of where the franchise could go from here. Shane Black and Frank Dekker’s screenplay isn’t concerned with sport hunting - daring to question why we call them “Predators” in the first place - and gives the alien creatures in the film goals to accomplish beyond “kill kill kill.” But ideas and Easter eggs planted in the movie suggest that all previous Predator movies have been part of one franchise story universe the same way we think about something like Star Wars. The Predator is part sequel, part reboot. Predator movies, loosely based on graphic novels produced by Dark Horse comic books, revealed that the Predators had been using Earth to hunt Xenomorphs since the early days of human civilization and taught us how to build pyramids. Predator (1987), Predator 2 (1990), and Predators (2010) all stick to the basic monster-movie premise: Predators hunt humans. Up until this month’s The Predator, the sci-fi franchise featuring an alien race that hunts humans for sport didn’t spend much screen time building a vibrant universe filled with story rules.
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