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They've recently gone back and re-shot / changed the entire final third of the film which isn't filling me full of confidence. But, as Branquey says. It's Shane Black, the man who invented wise cracking action films!

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What annoyed me about the reshoot debacle, lads, was that it was the fucking Predator fans and real hardcore sci-fi fans that lost the plot after some pre-screeings because the movie reminded them of Lethal Weapon mixed with a Predator movie so they had to reshoot and remove comedy elements.

I’m a huge fan of Predator and Predator 2 and I was all for a Shane Blacking of the Predator mythos. It filled me with joy and fucking wonder. I mean, I loved the Mandarin reveal in Iron Man 3 and was hoping for more cheek like that, but still, as D-Mal says, In Shane We Trust.

 

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Pretty much. It's the only time I've held any hope of us getting a decent Predator reboot and, in fairness, standards are so bloody low that even if it misses it's mark, I'm sure Black at least will give it a good go.

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No doubt in me mind he'll give it an immerciful belt, Col-Bol. Even Handsome Holbrook's "Assassins" line in the teaser filled me with hope that we'll get plenty of snappy dialogue.

Plus, Thomas Jane sold me with this:

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“We play these veterans from like Afghanistan, Iraq war or whatever. But we’re all fucking crazy so we go to the VA hospital to get our meds. We’re all like shellshocked, PTSD…soldiers. We’re at the VA hospital and we’re in group therapy and of course, somebody flips out…this is backstory, I don’t think we really see this…somebody flips out and we all get arrested and get thrown onto the bus to go down to the hospital and they throw this other guy on the bus too.

 

And he’s a guy they’ve actually marked to kill him because he’s seen a UFO, he’s seen the Predator ships come down so they lock him up and throw him in with us lunatics. They’re going to take that bus, drive it down to a ditch and shoot us all just to get rid of this one guy. But, of course, we take the bus over and we’re all like “fuck that man, let’s go kill these fucking Predators ourselves” and we’re just crazy enough to believe that this guy really did see a UFO and there’s these aliens out there. So that’s kinda cool!”

 

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I have every faith it'll be a good film, more than happy for there to be some humour in there, just not liking the overall look but it's just a trailer. I really liked what Robert Rodriguez did with Predators, take the look of that film and Shane Black's writing/direction and I'd be a happy boy.

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Yeah, Predators was very dull and really confused as to what it wanted to be. Even Walton Goggins couldn't save it.

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Has anyone ever been to the London film festival? What was it like? How does it all work with tickets and stuff? I'd quite like to go to the 2018 one but I have no idea how they work

Are there any other UK film festivals that are worth looking at?

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