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Predator in the present day · 2018

The Predator

A bigger Predator comes to Earth

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Quick recap

A Predator ship crashes in Mexico, and Army sniper Quinn McKenna grabs some of its gear and mails it home. Agent Will Traeger detains him and takes the creature to a lab, where biologist Casey Bracket finds human DNA in the alien. The Predator escapes. Quinn falls in with a busload of unstable ex-soldiers, the Loonies, and Casey tags along. Quinn's autistic son, Rory, opens the package and activates the gear, drawing alien hounds and a bigger Predator, which kills the first one. The group learns Predators harvest human DNA to upgrade themselves. Almost everyone dies in the final fight. At the end, Quinn watches a Predator-killer suit unfold from a pod.

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Hidden details

  1. CameoKeyes's son

    Jake Busey plays Sean Keyes, son of Peter Keyes, the agent his father Gary Busey played in Predator 2.

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  2. Behind the scenesThe director was once prey

    Shane Black, the director and co-writer, is the same actor who played radio operator Hawkins in the 1987 Predator.

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  3. Behind the scenesA last act redone in a hurry

    After poor test screenings, about three-quarters of the final act was rewritten and reshot in July 2018, moving the climax from day to night. Edward James Olmos's role was cut entirely.

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