Who Really Trashed THE PREDATOR?

As is so often the case, this looks to be a case of meddling by the studio. I am not aware of even one case wherein the studio becoming involved in the creative process of a movie resulted in a better film. Quite the contrary. Why can’t those dingleberries figure this out? Let the writers, directors, and actors do what you hire them to do—create! Keep your grubby little fingers out of it! Have you never heard that expression about too many cooks spoiling the recipe?

Here’s what Fred Dekker, who wrote the screenplay for THE PREDATOR, told MOVIEFONE(https://www.moviefone.com/2019/07/12/fred-dekker-interview-night-of-the-creeps-predator/): “…we had devised a sequence which…was my idea, which was essentially, our heroes have to get from point A to point B and they commandeer [a] military convoy. And at that point in the film, we had established a pair of Predator emissaries, basically good guy predators. What was interesting to Shane [Black, the director and co-writer] and I was…what do predators do, except for hunt? Because they’ve invented interstellar spacecraft. So they’re not stupid. They’re not just a bunch of Arkansas rednecks who come to Earth to play the most dangerous game. They actually have a civilization and a culture. And presumably that’s worth exploring since none of the other movies do it. So our idea was that their planet is dying. And so they’ve decided…we need maybe to upgrade ourselves just to survive. And then they go…well, hey, earth is warming up. We like a warm environment. Maybe we should move in. So the premise of the movie is that in the third act was these two predators…actually want to communicate. They want to say, ‘Hey, we’ve got a problem, you have a problem. Maybe we should team up.’…And what they ended up with was the terrible ending that I have nothing to do with it. Shane didn’t write [it] either. That was sort of someone decided it was a good idea….There’s something on the ship. Well, originally there was a whole bunch of those in the ship. And what those were was those were the gestating hybrids. Essentially what they were nurturing and growing in these pods were the hybrids of Predator DNA mixed with the DNA of creatures from all over the galaxy that would enable them to basically eradicate mankind so that they could populate it themselves. And so the convoy chase, the idea was that it would be all of our heroes on these badass, big military vehicles and the upgrade [Predator] releases the hybrids and chases them and the hybrids jump onto the convoy. And it’s a big, rootin’, tootin’ fantastic action sequence.”

Yes. It sounds like it would have been. If the damned studio nitwits had stayed out of it.

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Purveyor of sacred truths and purloined letters; literary acrobat; spiritual godson of Edgar Allan Poe, P.T. Barnum, and Ed Wood; WAYNE MILLER is the head architect of EVIL CHEEZ PRODUCTIONS, serving up the finest in entertainment and edification for the stage, the page, and the twain screens, silver and computer. He is the axe-murderer who once met Andy Griffith.

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