I honestly think it's fine. Weyland-Yutani existing in the year 2100 doesn't invalidate anything that happened in Predator 1 and 2 (the good ones) or even anything in 3 (the okay one).
Im with you. I think this looks cool.
One of my faorite fan theories is that the Predators are a slaver race and have conquered other aliens and forced them to create their technology.
Setting the bar real high.
The human. Who is going to girlboss whatever the threat Niggador is facing.
Oh yeah I memeber! I'm convinced, I can't wait for next product now.
She's technically a robot. So her being extremely strong shouldn't be an issue. Though there are rumors that that actress plays a robot and a human version of herself. But it might just be a quick scene like the end of Alien 3 where 'Bishop' shows up and gets his head ripped off like a can opener.
According to the reports, this shit will have a $200 million budget, a record for a Predator movie.
Nah, it's not unreasonable to have Weyland and Yutani to exist in the setting and fuse eventually, especially since this is allegedly taking place decades after the first two films. Hell, there's media that plays with that Yutani has at least played with Yautja-tech once or twice, and then there's Concrete Jungle, which has Wey-Yu incorporate another company that dealt with them, the Borgias. There's nothing that prevents this from occuring, especially if you are cracked out and desperate for money like RatCo.
The actual issue is if the actress can carry this film, and I don't have much faith in that happening. It doesn't go well, and a lot of that is they don't make them like Weaver and others anymore.
ID4 vs Predator sounds like that would quickly escalate from "hunt" to "interstellar war"
If the Independence Day aliens can be defeated by Jeff Goldblum with a Mac, I doubt the Yautja would have much trouble.
I dunno if they'd have considered something sneaky like computer virii.
I feel like the Yautja must either be a post-scarcity society or there's a whole segment of it that we haven't seen yet. You can't have all the infrastructure and technology to spend your time padding around what are essentially nature reserves living a semi-primitive life and still be able to have interstellar travel and invisible tech without something more than what we see.
Yeah that's what I'm thinking, there could be a few ways to run with that, like Galaxy Quest and there's a culture shock of these guys not hitting 1:1 , or like "oh okay you guys have interstellar travel and stepped to US? okay we get out the REALLY good shit for you."
That's ridiculous, no way it doesn't flop with that kind of budget, it likely also guarantees it won't be R-rated either as they're going to want as big of an audience as possible to make back its money.
Exactly this. There's nothing on the face that's terrible about the set up, just AvP films have just really sucked, and the movie industry has not improved since the last one. This is going to be some retard trying to make their mark and "using this film to talk about important topics" and "Expand the franchise audience even if some of the existing fans take issue they aren't the people this film was made for" modern wokefilm bs.
Even if she's a synth I'm sure we'll get some gender politics injections as well.
Oh yeah, forgot about that part too. Predators and Prey at least got that part right.
The fan theory I heard and I liked was that the Yautja were a primitive race that killed more advanced aliens that had come to their world to hunt them, and stole their technology. As they expanded they extort "unworthy" races for heavy industry, and kill/loot enhanced technology from "worthy" ones. But their population is extremely small so their weapons, etc are all hand-made and for the most part are passed from one generation to the next with small tweaks and enhancements.
The only appearance I'm aware of the "Predator Military" is the weird AvP RTS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aliens_Versus_Predator:_Extinction
Exactly. As if the predator raids are more like a friendly boxing match or game of cricket to them or somesuch. Hilarious to imagine mankind interpreting their limited interactions with the Yautja so far as representing the extent of their capabilities. It would be like a bunch of people from a primitive tribe extrapolating from a Big Game hunter and launching an attack. "So they have these long sticks that can kill you and we don't know how they work, but so long as we outnumber them and still have our spears, we can take them. And then the canoes pull up in London and they see a tank and combined arms for the first time.
Interesting. I'm not sure about the not understanding their own tech. I see where they were coming from but I feel it's because they have this idea of savage = low tech and enjoy the idea of savage low-tech people conquering smarter and more advanced people. I more enjoy the idea that someone can be savage and high tech at the same time. That's more interesting to me. I do like the idea of them being small in number though. That fits. And there's no reason to suppose a species would follow humanity's approach of breed uncontrollably. Especially if they're quite long lived which I think some of the media suggests they are.
idk if it's canon or not but in the comics the predators are a matriarchal society (OH NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO WOKE ALREADY CONQUERED THE YAUTJA), the females run everything and the males go on hunts to impress them. It's implied they could fuck humanity up bad in a war-war if they wanted to but have no interest in it, the hunting and ritual and honor stuff is to keep the males occupied because otherwise they'd all kill each other competing for females. Lots of males still get killed fighting each other over petty bullshit because predator testosterone is no joke frfrnocap. The females are hugely narcissistic from the way the males simp for them and their main focus in life is enjoying the simping and making sure the males are kept kinda in control via hunting
Alien and Predator are both concepts that work in a certain kind of setting with a certain kind of story structure. One that doesn't involve spewing wikipedia-article style exposition all over the audience