Director Announced For PREDATORS!
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After much on-line speculation, Ain't It Cool confirmed with producer Robert Rodriguez that director Nimrod Antal will helm PREDATORS, the upcoming new film in the PREDATOR franchise. Antal also directed VACANCY (a film I enjoyed quite a lot), as well as the upcoming ARMORED, which is apparently the flick that helped get him this gig.
Rodriguez checked in with Ain't It Cool to reveal some of the first details about PREDATORS. Here's some snippets.
- In regards to Rodriguez's role as a producer on PREDATORS: "I lobbied to have the movie done through my studios so I could oversee it in a stronger position than a producer usually takes on. Alex Young (from FOX) came down and saw Troublemaker Studios, and the facilities and crew that I've built up over the past 12 years, and he felt right away that this is where the movie should be made and that doing it down here would be the best way to protect it from the studio system. He was keen on making a very "non-studio" picture. So I'll be taking a more upfront role as a producer than would normally be the case in Hollywood."
- On why Nimrod Antan as the director: "I found him to be an outstanding presence, a great communicator full of ideas, and upon meeting him you can immediately understand how he is able to wrangle cast and crew and get the best out of everyone. He reminded me of Quentin with how he was able to work with a group of very strong, singular actor talents and make it look effortless. I know he'll be able to get the most out of what we want to be an outstanding cast. We really want to go with a character driven action movie, because that's what we all remember about the original Predator, and we want to take it even further with this."
- On the story based on his original PREDATOR 3 treatment from 1994: "I can't go too much into the story right now, because we're still writing. But it still involves a very intense group of people stranded on a Predator planet discovering unspeakable horrors (that are not always from outside their group). So like the original movie, the title does have a double meaning. Aliens was a different take on the Alien idea, and an original movie in it's own right, and that's what we want to do with this. As to how this movie will be viewed, one of the guys at Fox told me "No one is ever going to talk about AVP again after this film, I will stake my life on it.""
There's tons more over at the original link including some chat about KNB who'll be handling the FX on the movie. Check it out HERE!
Rodriguez checked in with Ain't It Cool to reveal some of the first details about PREDATORS. Here's some snippets.
- In regards to Rodriguez's role as a producer on PREDATORS: "I lobbied to have the movie done through my studios so I could oversee it in a stronger position than a producer usually takes on. Alex Young (from FOX) came down and saw Troublemaker Studios, and the facilities and crew that I've built up over the past 12 years, and he felt right away that this is where the movie should be made and that doing it down here would be the best way to protect it from the studio system. He was keen on making a very "non-studio" picture. So I'll be taking a more upfront role as a producer than would normally be the case in Hollywood."
- On why Nimrod Antan as the director: "I found him to be an outstanding presence, a great communicator full of ideas, and upon meeting him you can immediately understand how he is able to wrangle cast and crew and get the best out of everyone. He reminded me of Quentin with how he was able to work with a group of very strong, singular actor talents and make it look effortless. I know he'll be able to get the most out of what we want to be an outstanding cast. We really want to go with a character driven action movie, because that's what we all remember about the original Predator, and we want to take it even further with this."
- On the story based on his original PREDATOR 3 treatment from 1994: "I can't go too much into the story right now, because we're still writing. But it still involves a very intense group of people stranded on a Predator planet discovering unspeakable horrors (that are not always from outside their group). So like the original movie, the title does have a double meaning. Aliens was a different take on the Alien idea, and an original movie in it's own right, and that's what we want to do with this. As to how this movie will be viewed, one of the guys at Fox told me "No one is ever going to talk about AVP again after this film, I will stake my life on it.""
There's tons more over at the original link including some chat about KNB who'll be handling the FX on the movie. Check it out HERE!
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