Dekker Likens ‘The Predator’ To Aliens

After being likened (in a small way) to Close Encounters of the Third Kind by director Shane Black, ‘The Predator’ screenwriter Fred Dekker offers another analogy in the form of James Cameron’s classic sequel Aliens.

Speaking with the Movie Crypt Podcast, Dekker says;

“If you think of the first Predator as Alien, ours is much more Aliens. It’s not Ten Little Indians, it’s not, Let’s kill off all of our characters, because we have a lot of characters, from a lot of different worlds and ideologies. I don’t mean other planets. It’s a lot of people doing a lot of things in a lot of locations.

There’s a lot of great stuff in the [original] Predator but it’s very simple. Guys get dropped in a jungle, and there’s an alien monster, and they fight the monster, and they all die except for one – spoiler alert! – and then the thing self-destructs, and there’s a nuke, and then [Arnold Schwarzenegger] flies away. It’s relatively simple.

Our idea was, Okay, we know that story already. What’s behind the curtain? Why are they here? What are they doing? What’s the bigger picture of this?… I think these are questions you can answer, or at least explore, without defeating that sense of scariness. And who knows if their agenda’s changed?”

At the minute, the only people rumoured for this project are 50 Cent and Arnold Schwarzenegger.