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Well you kind of have a point with the fact that there would be action in both the jungles and the city. But I'm still not convinced that there's a lot more to be done for the Predator francise that the first two films really covered
My idea, to be more precise, was to see the Predators setting a trap to take an US-Army General's head as trophy, since, as far as humans go, it would be the "awesomest" of all trophies, for to get a General, the Predator would have to get trhough the entire American Army.
it would begin with the American locating a Predator hunting in the middle of a drug war in Rio (a bit cliché, as GL pointed out, and already done in Predator 2, but still workable if kept only as an intro or secondary plot) and they send a team led by the General (or by a Colonel, if a General would be too much) with the mission of capturing the Predator alive at all costs. But, little they know, there are actually two Predators, and while one honorably sacrifices hirself and deliberately takes the fall for the glory of the hunt for the ultimate prize (which mean we could even nuke the city - or its vicinities - up to two-thirds from the end of the movie. Another cliché, I know), the other attacks home-base and takes the General life. The final fight could be between the remaining Predator and a brave young American soldier (because the soldiers are always honest, as opposed to the corrupt Generals, of course), a Brazilian elite cop, and maybe even a drug soldier, if we want to go all "City-of-Gods" too, which I'm not realy particularly interest in (and the Candomblé thing is out of my plans, but if we want to go really cliché, we can always set the action during Carnaval).
Rio is a cool setting indeed because it has the perfect geographic characteristics for the action scenes, in addition to fulfiling the two basic premises of what kind of place Predators like to visit, i.e. it's hot and it's a conflict area. Not only there is jungle and city close together, the hill-side, maze-like slums of Rio would make a great hunting ground for the high-leaping, tree-climbing animal that the Predator is. And also the perfect scenario for my dream Predator action sequence: the Predator being chasied down by an Army helicopter armed with tracing bullets, being finally hit down by a sucker-shot from the shoulder gun (maybe even from the 2nd Predator?). I'm stealing this idea from one of those old Batman vs Predator comics.
You can see I'm not even trying to go for originality or any intellectual hight, but it would be an acceptable summer action flocks for teens. Which is all the Predator franchise (and the Alien vs Predator franchise) ever was. |
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