There are three big, stupid, old-school action movies this year and i'm excited for all three, but Predators didn't make my top 10 most anticipated films of the year, whereas Machete (co-directed by Predators' producer and co-writer Robert Rodriguez) and The Expendables did. Why? Casts, plain and simple.
The Expendables has the greatest action cast ever assembled full stop (Stallone, Jet Li, Dolph Lundgren, Schwarzenegger, Mickey Rourke, Jason Statham, Bruce Willis, Terry Crews, etc) while Machete places kick-ass supporting actor Danny Trejo front and center and surrounds him with about the most eclectic cast of all time (Robert DeNiro, Steven Seagal, Jessica Alba and Lindsey Lohan all in one movie! That's just plain bizarre!)
But now Rodriguez has posted some behind-the-scenes footage from Predators on the official website (and a trailer is due later this week) which gives a better concept of what the intention is on this sequel/reboot of the franchise which saw one of the best action films of the 80s, followed by a pretty decent and underrated sequel before being butchered in the past 5 years by the AvP films.
Frankly if there a man for the job of overseeing a reboot of this material Rodriguez with this genre, action, kick-ass, entertainment approach (see From Dusk Till Dawn, The Faculty, Desperado, Planet Terror) is the perfect man.
This footage gives me hope and boosts Predators up my must-sees for 2010:
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