Entertainment
12 July 2010
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| Predators (15) |
IN 1987, Predator introduced one of the most enduring and popular characters in sci-fi film history - an invisibility-cloaked extra-terrestrial warrior who wreaked havoc in the jungle.
A sequel followed a few years later.
Now we have PREDATORS (15), directed by Nimrod Antal and starring Oscar(r)-winner Adrien Brody.
He is Royce, a mercenary who reluctantly leads a group of elite warriors who come to realise they've been brought together on an alien planet... as prey.
With the exception of a disgraced physician, they are all cold-blooded killers who are now being systemically hunted and eliminated by a new breed of alien Predators.
Brody is joined by Laurence Fishburne, Topher Grace, Alice Braga and Walton Goggins.
Robert Rodriguez, who wrote the 1994 film, has penned the new adventure.
He says: "The idea with Predators was to not make it feel like it is the fifth or sixth movie in a series, but the first.
"This isn't a reboot or re-imagining. Chronologically, you could see this right after the first Predator film and have a clear through-line of story.
"The Predators are such enduring characters that you could go off and create whole other worlds based on them.
"I knew I wanted to go back to a character-based movie. And it was very important to me that each character felt like he or she could be a star of his or her own film.