Here are some excerpts from the most recent issue of EMPIRE magazine.
They were given an interview and an exclusive walk thru of the set.
Pluse a set of character bios.
These are the highlights...
"Cameron did Aliens I wanted to do Predators, all-out war, lots of creatures" -Robert Rodriguez
"Also, fittingly for the place that made Sin City and Grindhouse, there's gore everywhere." -Empire writer
"First we're shown around the clearing where there aliens bring their trophies. It's not a pretty sight. Spinal columns hang from burnt cedars, cleaved skulls and rib-bones litter the mulchy ground, animal hides lie draped over rocks. Our next stop is a storage room-truned-meat locker, where skinned carcasses (all headless, some human, many of inderterminate species) hang from hooks. One looks like a giant turkey, one has six legs, another resembles a cross between a deer and a lobster."
-Empire writer
"The refrence point is Hieronymus Bosch, I wanted the jungle to look as hellish as his paintings. And Fox have been really cool - they're actually encouraging me to shoot grislier stuff for the unrated DVD!" -Nimrod Antal
"Take the setting. It's not on the Predators' home planet, but an unnamed interstellar game reserve. The plants are carnivorous, the birdlife comprised of brain-eating buzzards, the jungle littered with lethal booby-traps." -Empire writer
"The old Predator had a code of honour, these guys are sadistic. They're berserkers-absoluterito." -Robert Rodriguez
"There's a Falconer, a Predator with this UAV, a weird flying device, his 'eye in the sky'. Is it a robot or a living oganisim? Maybe both!"-Nimrod Antal
"There are Predator dogs- we call them 'Pred-hounds'- that'll **** you up.
And then there are flushers, drivers, trappers... Plus, the Predators aren't the only aliens the humans meet on this planet. We haven't made it easy on these guys!" -Nimrod Antal
"Do you remember that song, 'One of these things is not like the others'? That's how I feel in this movie!" -Topher Grace, AKA Edwin
"We're getting into a bit I'm really looking forward to- the sounds. My editor, Dan Zimmerman- who I call DJ Dan- is coming up with all these crazy electronic distortion noises, like a computer dying. And the vocalisations of the Predators themselves... Right now, if we were to play those sounds, all these people would become uncomfortable right away. It's like the lightsaber in Star Wars. The Predator is embedded in our psyche." -Nimrod Antal
Character Bios
Royce
AKA: Adrien Brody
Background: Expert Mercenary
Weapons of Choice: AA-12 shotgun, machete
Chuchillo
AKA: Danny Trejo
Background: Drug Cartel Enforcer
Weapons of Choice: Twin uzis, butter knife
Nikolai
AKA: Oleg Taktarov
Background: Russian Special Forces
Weapons of Choice: Six barrelled GE M134 Minigun, taken from a helicopter - a homage to the originals "Ol' Painless."
Isabelle
AKA: Alice Braga
Background: Ex-sniper in Israeli army
Weapon of Choice: Blaser R93 LRS2 precision sniper rifle with hi-tech scope
Hanzo
AKA: Louis Ozawa Changchien
Background: Yazuka Assassin
Weapons of Choice: Beretta 92FS, katana
Stans
AKA: Walter Goggins
Background: San Quentin convict- killed 38 people in three states
Weapon of Choice: Prison shiv
Mombasa
AKA: Mahershalahashbaz Al
Background: Member of a Sierra Leone death squad
Weapon of Choice: AKS-47 assault rifle
Edwin
AKA: Topher Grace
Background: Claims to be a surgeon. An expert in botany
Weapon of Choice: Scalpel
Noland
AKA: Laurence Fishburne
Background: Now that would be telling!
Weapons of Choice: Anything he can pry from a Predator's cold, dead claws.
meant to stop by the comic store to see what's up, but forgot...
