Would A Prequel For Preadator Be Good

Will Shane Black's Predator sequel suffer the same fate (critical & commercial failure) like Ridley Scott's failed Alien prequels Prometheus and Alien: Covenant?

Thanks for the A2A.I haven’t seen the new Predator movie yet but the reviews mostly say it is a mess.I knew it would be. I’ll probably watch in in a year or two when it happens to be on TV or at a friends house. I have no interest in spending money on it. I felt the same about Covenant.Hollywood has painted itself into a corner. A very lucrative one to be sure, but creatively speaking they are out of choices.The way it works now it to think of a few amazing visuals for a trailer and work backwards. The marketing determines the movie.Also, Hollywood has been too good at teaching/tricking the public to accepting style over substance. With CGI, it is possible to do anything, which unfortunately also includes constantly distracting people from lack of engaging story or coherent action.I genuinely don’t believe they are capable of making a good movie any more, especially not for exhausted franchises like Predator and Alien. Then only way to make a good movie would be to slow down the pace, limit the scope, and concentrate on developing sympathetic characters and an intelligent, coherent story.But directors like Michael Bay and JJ Abrams have messed that up. Hollywood can’t risk slowing down a Hollywood blockbuster. Audiences are trained to want explosions and quips every three seconds.The only good movies that can be made are from smaller studios and indie directors. They have the luxury of telling a proper story, and making it with passion and love.Also, people often change as they get older. Most directors lose their touch. They lose the passion, drive, creativity and edginess that made them great when they were young. George Lucas for example, had a visions in his youth that he, (with the help of very talented people) brought joy and wonder to millions of kids all over the world. Then he got old, greedy, tired, narcissistic and produced the shittiest prequel trilogy imaginable. Ridley Scott is the same. He was a chirpy, dedicated director in his youth, now he is an arrogant, greedy, unimaginative, grumpy old man.I have no confidence in Shane Black. The Lethal Weapon movies were great back in the day, but Iron Man 3 was a sloppy mess, with glimmers of greatness. It seems he too fits in to this tired, grumpy old man mould.

How would you make an Alien versus Predator movie work and be successful?

It is possible, but very unlikely, to make an AVP film that is as successful as the good Alien and Predator franchise films. I mean, we’ll probably never see an AVP with the innovation of Predator, the suspanse of Alien and the enternainment of Aliens. You know, the AVP films were the worst ever on the Alien and Predator franchise, both the films being in the two worst ratings.If it is possible it should be a huge miracle! And miracles are not easy. The most important is not to make a silly story, only to make a continuity. This is what happened to Alien vs Predator, and despite I enjoyed it, because the story wasn’t that bad, it was still an Alien film vs a Predator film. The sequel, was very much only a blood bath.So even the most brilliant ideas about future AVP films would result in a rating only higher than Predator 2, and only miraculously higher than Alien Resurrection. But if someone wants to make an AVP film it needs to be a convincing story that connects to both story in ther most brilliant way, at least only to receive greenlit from 20th Century Fox!Only because this idea must be well thought to receive a good quantity of “mixed to positive reviews”, I can’t give you any sudden idea. However, I would like that an AVP film explores what happened after the events of AVPR… I mean it is unlikely that every Aliens died in there. Another opportunity is to make a story that does not work as a sequel, but rather a spin-off prequel. For example, you could make a more Predator-related AVP, where, somewhere around 1904 or 1804, whalers have came to the Bouvet Island and encountered a shortcut to the pyramid and found the Aliens… and the Predators. This story could also be adapted to explain what happened to that Mesoamerican civilization, in the Alien vs Predator flashbacks.

Will there be a new predator movie, now that "The Predator" sees to be financially successful even though it was panned by critics?

Probably yes, but they will approach the sequel with caution. Remember, the Annabelle sequel (Conjuring Spin off) was a much better film than the one that preceded it. Studios are now appreciating any harvesting of audiences for a franchise that can be tied to other films. Predator is a Model for resurrectingans leveraging built in fan interest of an old franhise to suit the times and plant a flag in the audience awareness for modern movie franchises.Franchise films are very much coveted more than ever today as Marvel Studios has created a template for others to aspire to. Granted that no other studio is able to replicate anything close to the scale that Marvel establishes, but they are learning the key ingredients of audience demographic study, loose franchise and character cross over tie ins, and how leverage legacy stories (Stephen King’s IT) to help chart a new course of stories to expand on a micro movie universe.Now that Ridley Scott’s Alien franchise has stalled, Predator is the new hope for FOX to supplant that genre segment. However, once it becomes Disney’s property alongside Avatar and the other FOX catalogue, that strategy may change

After the success of Halloween reboot sequel, would you like to see Blumhouse Productions reboot Alien and Predator franchises by ignoring bad sequels (Alien 3 & Resurrection) and failed prequels (Prometheus & Alien Covenant) like they didn't exist?

After the last Predator film and the disaster that was Alien: Covenant I regretfully feel like it’s time to let both franchises fade away.Aliens is, to this day, one of my favorite movies of all time and I LOVED the original Predator. While the sequels/prequels are not without their individual merits, it seem to me that each iteration has gotten progressively worse.Alien: Covenant and The Predator have regressed into “bad B movie” territory just with big budget special effects.I do love the art Blumhouse has shown for Alien 5, and the idea of having a “proper” sequel for the franchise very much appeals to the fan in me, but my inner cynic has just been let down to many times to hold out much hope.