Predator Badlands Stars On Alien Ties Bringing Back Arnold Exclusive Interview

Well, I'm so excited for this. Dan, I remember seeing the first, like, 20 minute, like, rough edit. I have some context to what's going on in this film. Demetrius, I want to talk about the the CG face, because I wonder when you do the transition or like when you see yourself in that footage in the final finalized version, can you see your eyes and your facial expressions? Like, how do you connect to the character? Yeah, it is kind of, I guess, a fuzzy feeling like looking at Dick, because, yeah, it's like, yeah, I do see myself like really in the in the facial expressions, the way he moves, obviously, because I was doing it. But yeah, no, it was really fun to try and, yeah, I guess find that emotion, not emotion, but I guess just that way that people can connect to Dick's character without like humanizing him or trying to make him, you know, not a predator. I think, you know, building on his whole background and, you know, finding what it is he does, where he comes from. And yeah, working with Dan on it, like, yeah, it helps to it helps audiences to see this predator in a new light, but also still staying true to, you know, what it means to be Yautja. Yeah, totally. I think it's cool, like when there is so much practical elements to production, because I'm sure it helps immerse you guys. But El, I want to talk about like you got no legs, Lieutenant Dan, you know what I mean? So what is the practical filmmaking? Like, what was the process of being on the back and all that stuff? And well, the back, we were really linked up most of the time. So that was that was practical with wires and rigging. And we had this vine backpack that would then get vined around both of us. And I was in blue like stockings most of the time so they could erase my legs later. But to get to be a synthetic, like half of a synthetic, like you kind of felt like a rite of passage in a way like you've seen in other alien films, like parts of them or, you know, and she's she's definitely a new version with kind of this funky personality. And and I mean, like Dan was saying, too, but it's like Chewbacca and Secret PO, like which was really fun. But I get to be on like the deadliest creature out there to be guiding him along and kind of to maybe befriend him. So I love doing it practically. I think it added to just it helped us like acting wise to to to feel that. And and yeah, be attached that way. Like literally be so close to him. Yeah. Yeah. Dan, I want to talk about because like in Killer of Killers, right, there's a pretty cool end scene there. And I saw the Weyland-Yutani, you know, in the eyes of the android. Right. So I'm wondering, can we expect more connections to like the alien universe or is that just more of like a wink and a nudge to the audience? You know, it would be very cool. And this certainly wasn't a frivolous thing of involving Weyland-Yutani into woven into the fabric of this movie. So, yeah, it would be it would be awesome to be able to tell more stories that that have further connections. Yeah. You know, Deck is on a journey to defeat the most dangerous creature on the most dangerous planet on in the universe. Right. And so I'm wondering what is a threat to a predator when it's so and the predator is so the you know, they're so known for being killers. Yes. I mean, funny, funny enough, there's a couple. Yeah. The first one answer is, wait, you see the movie buckle up. But the other answer is why we made this movie at all was because despite that being the feeling of what of the predator, the movies have all tackled the times where they lose and are defeated. And so this was the chance for us to make a movie where the predator could could win. So but it's it's it it doesn't come easy. So so, yeah, you know, I think it's it's cool to see, you know, this predator as the protagonist for like the first time. Right. But also the language is so fascinating. And I heard that there is it was something that you actually learned to speak. And I'm just curious, like, have you kept or retained any of that knowledge? Yeah, I think it's in my brain for life now. The ultra the way we went about it now. But it was also me myself, even though I had to do like Zoom calls with Britain, Britain Watkins, he constructed the language and made it like a proper proper language, like, you know, the sentence instruction or like he made an alphabet and everything. So, yeah, it was really fun. Written and with some of it's behind us right now and verbal. Yeah. Yeah. So you got Klingon, you know, like it joins the ranks of fictional languages. Dan, I do want to ask, because I remember seeing some Easter eggs in the first 20 minutes. But when I think of killer killers and seeing Nauru and the kind of archive champions, I have to ask if there have been any conversations with like getting Arnold back, because where has he been since that first predator? I know. Where has he been? Has he been? Where is that guy? How to man? It'd be really cool to find out one day, wouldn't it? Yeah. All right. Take it. I'll take it. Well, I'm so excited for this movie. I love the Predator franchise. And I think in your hands, it's only gotten better and better. So thanks for saying I think another winner is on the horizon. Congratulations. Thanks, man. Yeah.