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Predator Reboot? Ugh!

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Well, at least the John Carter on Mars project and Barbarella remake have been cancelled.

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Ive heard scuttlebutt lately about Pixar doing an animated John Carter.
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Omphalos wrote:Ive heard scuttlebutt lately about Pixar doing an animated John Carter.
It's actually Disney but a lot of the better Pixar peeps are on the project.

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goddamn I LOVED barberalla ! only place you ever got to see
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Predator doesn't need a reboot. It's not exactly high art, but it's fine as is. Besides, the whole Alien/Predator universe has pretty much been played out. Unless they plan to take the material seriously and actually do something with it rather than abuse it as more awful summer fluff. I suppose they could do a lot worse than Rodriguez.
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loved me some Barbarosa, too, with Willie Nelson & Gary Busey ....

great movie, mostly filmed down around Marfa .....
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Ahh yes, as a teenager I was quite fond of Barbarella. What teenage boy wouldn't be? :D

Predator reboot? Hey, it could conceivably be an improvement. Just think about the benefits of replacing Schwarzenegger with someone who can actually act! :lol:
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I like Predators. I'd go see a real movie about one. Hell, I rent those shitty Alien/Predator movies, so I'd see this thing for sure.
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that reminds me of a story I'm too druck to tell ....
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Post by Seraphan »

Predator 1 & 2 were one of those "watch until the tape melts" movies when i was a kid. But if it's Rodriguez who's doing a new movie, then it's gonna be taking place in the past, somewhere around the imperial age, if the stories about his script are true.
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Imperial age?

Which/Whose empire?
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