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The Predator co-writer compares the movie to Aliens

June 3, 2016 by Gary Collinson

With filming on Shane Black’s The Predator set to get underway in October, Black’s co-writer Fred Dekker has been speaking to the Movie Crypt podcast (via Entertainment Weekly) about the next instalment in the sci-fi action series, comparing it to James Cameron’s 1986 classic Aliens.

“If you think of the first Predator as Alien, ours is much more Aliens,” said Dekker. “It’s not ‘Ten Little Indians,’ it’s not, ‘Let’s kill off all of our characters,’ because we have a lot of characters, from a lot of different worlds and ideologies. I don’t mean other planets. It’s a lot of people doing a lot of things in a lot of locations. ”

SEE ALSO: Shane Black discusses The Predator

“There’s a lot of great stuff in the [original] Predator but it’s very simple…Guys get dropped in a jungle, and there’s an alien monster, and they fight the monster, and they all die except for one — spoiler alert! — and then the thing self-destructs, and there’s a nuke, and then [Arnold Schwarzenegger] flies away,” he continues. “It’s relatively simple. And our idea was, Okay, we know that story already. What’s behind the curtain? Why are they here? What are they doing? What’s the bigger picture of this? I think these are questions you can answer, or at least explore, without defeating that sense of scariness. And who knows if their agenda’s changed?”

The Predator is set for release on February 9th 2018.

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