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The Predator (film)
The Predator is a 2018 American science fiction action film directed by Shane Black, who co-wrote it with Fred Dekker. It is the fourth in the Predator film series. The film stars Boyd Holbrook, Trevante Rhodes, Jacob Tremblay, Keegan-Michael Key, Olivia Munn, Thomas Jane, Alfie Allen, and Sterling K. Brown. It follows a group of PTSD-afflicted soldiers and a scientist who must team up to fight off an invading pair of Predators and discover their plans for humankind.
Development of the film was announced in June 2014, with Black being confirmed as writer and director. Much of the cast signed on between October 2016 and January 2017. Principal photography took place in British Columbia from February to June 2017, with the climax being re-written and re-shot in July 2018 following poor test screenings.
The Predator premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 6, 2018, and was released in the United States on September 14, by 20th Century Fox. The film received generally negative reviews from critics and grossed $160 million against a budget of $88 million. It was followed by a prequel, Prey, released in 2022.
A Predator ship crash-lands on Earth. U.S. Army Ranger sniper Quinn McKenna and his team are attacked by the Predator while on a hostage retrieval mission in Mexico. Quinn incapacitates the Predator and has parts of its armor sent off by mail to prove the existence of extraterrestrial intelligence. Government agent Will Traeger has Quinn captured and held for examination. Traeger also takes the Predator to a lab for experimentation and observation, recruiting evolutionary biologist Casey Bracket to study it, who discovers that the Predator's genetic makeup contains human DNA. The Predator awakens, breaks out of its restraints, and kills the lab workers and armed guards, but spares Casey, as she is completely naked and unarmed, before escaping.
Quinn is bussed off with a group of other captives, including former Marines "Nebraska" Williams, Coyle, Baxley, Lynch, and Army helicopter pilot Nettles. Witnessing the Predator's escape from the lab, they hijack the bus. Taking Casey with them, they head over to Quinn's estranged wife, Emily, where he unexpectedly finds the Predator armor he'd previously mailed to a PO box. This was because he hadn't paid for the PO box so the postman had delivered it to her house. However, Rory, Quinn's autistic son, has gone trick-or-treating in the armor in hopes of avoiding detection from bullies.
Quinn and the others find his son in time to stop a pair of Predator Hounds from ambushing the boy. Quinn blows one up by shooting a grenade into its mouth while Nebraska unintentionally lobotomizes the other dog after shooting it in the head. The Predator chases them into a nearby school and corners the group, strangling Quinn, but when he tries to give it its equipment back, a larger and more powerful Predator, the master of the Predator Hounds from earlier, arrives and ambushes the second one. The group flees, while the second Predator easily kills the first by bashing its head in and then removing its skull and spine, before setting off to locate its stolen technology.
Casey concludes that the Predators are attempting to improve themselves with the DNA of humans and, presumably, other planets' inhabitants. She also suggests that Rory's autism enables him to translate and understand Predator technology. The team flees to an abandoned barn, but Traeger finds and captures them, and shares his theory that the Predators anticipate that climate change will end their ability to retrieve human DNA for further hybridization, and as such are scrambling to retrieve samples before it is too late. Seeing Rory drawing a map to the spaceship, Traeger takes the boy to the ship, and instructs his soldiers to execute the team. The team escapes and goes after him with the help of the now docile, brain-damaged Predator Hound.
Once everyone has arrived at the crashed ship, the second Predator arrives and blows off Lynch's arm, causing him to die from blood loss, although not before he launches a flare to signal a firefight between the group and Traeger's men. The Predator then uses Traeger's translation software to communicate with the humans, telling them that it will destroy the ship, and it gives them a head start to flee, with Quinn and his group striking up an uneasy truce with Traeger's men while the Predator destroys the ship. The Predator quickly kills several of Traeger's soldiers while mortally wounding Baxley and Coyle, who then kill each other in an act of mercy. Traeger tries to attack the alien with a Predator plasma weapon, but accidentally blows off his own head.
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The Predator (film)
The Predator is a 2018 American science fiction action film directed by Shane Black, who co-wrote it with Fred Dekker. It is the fourth in the Predator film series. The film stars Boyd Holbrook, Trevante Rhodes, Jacob Tremblay, Keegan-Michael Key, Olivia Munn, Thomas Jane, Alfie Allen, and Sterling K. Brown. It follows a group of PTSD-afflicted soldiers and a scientist who must team up to fight off an invading pair of Predators and discover their plans for humankind.
Development of the film was announced in June 2014, with Black being confirmed as writer and director. Much of the cast signed on between October 2016 and January 2017. Principal photography took place in British Columbia from February to June 2017, with the climax being re-written and re-shot in July 2018 following poor test screenings.
The Predator premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 6, 2018, and was released in the United States on September 14, by 20th Century Fox. The film received generally negative reviews from critics and grossed $160 million against a budget of $88 million. It was followed by a prequel, Prey, released in 2022.
A Predator ship crash-lands on Earth. U.S. Army Ranger sniper Quinn McKenna and his team are attacked by the Predator while on a hostage retrieval mission in Mexico. Quinn incapacitates the Predator and has parts of its armor sent off by mail to prove the existence of extraterrestrial intelligence. Government agent Will Traeger has Quinn captured and held for examination. Traeger also takes the Predator to a lab for experimentation and observation, recruiting evolutionary biologist Casey Bracket to study it, who discovers that the Predator's genetic makeup contains human DNA. The Predator awakens, breaks out of its restraints, and kills the lab workers and armed guards, but spares Casey, as she is completely naked and unarmed, before escaping.
Quinn is bussed off with a group of other captives, including former Marines "Nebraska" Williams, Coyle, Baxley, Lynch, and Army helicopter pilot Nettles. Witnessing the Predator's escape from the lab, they hijack the bus. Taking Casey with them, they head over to Quinn's estranged wife, Emily, where he unexpectedly finds the Predator armor he'd previously mailed to a PO box. This was because he hadn't paid for the PO box so the postman had delivered it to her house. However, Rory, Quinn's autistic son, has gone trick-or-treating in the armor in hopes of avoiding detection from bullies.
Quinn and the others find his son in time to stop a pair of Predator Hounds from ambushing the boy. Quinn blows one up by shooting a grenade into its mouth while Nebraska unintentionally lobotomizes the other dog after shooting it in the head. The Predator chases them into a nearby school and corners the group, strangling Quinn, but when he tries to give it its equipment back, a larger and more powerful Predator, the master of the Predator Hounds from earlier, arrives and ambushes the second one. The group flees, while the second Predator easily kills the first by bashing its head in and then removing its skull and spine, before setting off to locate its stolen technology.
Casey concludes that the Predators are attempting to improve themselves with the DNA of humans and, presumably, other planets' inhabitants. She also suggests that Rory's autism enables him to translate and understand Predator technology. The team flees to an abandoned barn, but Traeger finds and captures them, and shares his theory that the Predators anticipate that climate change will end their ability to retrieve human DNA for further hybridization, and as such are scrambling to retrieve samples before it is too late. Seeing Rory drawing a map to the spaceship, Traeger takes the boy to the ship, and instructs his soldiers to execute the team. The team escapes and goes after him with the help of the now docile, brain-damaged Predator Hound.
Once everyone has arrived at the crashed ship, the second Predator arrives and blows off Lynch's arm, causing him to die from blood loss, although not before he launches a flare to signal a firefight between the group and Traeger's men. The Predator then uses Traeger's translation software to communicate with the humans, telling them that it will destroy the ship, and it gives them a head start to flee, with Quinn and his group striking up an uneasy truce with Traeger's men while the Predator destroys the ship. The Predator quickly kills several of Traeger's soldiers while mortally wounding Baxley and Coyle, who then kill each other in an act of mercy. Traeger tries to attack the alien with a Predator plasma weapon, but accidentally blows off his own head.