The Hunt has evolved into something very unusual. Analog Jones continues its review of the Predator franchise as we examine Predators and The Predator!
Quick Facts for Predators (2010)
Directed by Nimrod Antal (Directed two episodes of Stranger Things in season 4)
Produced by Robert Rodriguez (Eel Mariachi, Desperado, From Dusk till Dawn, Spy Kids), John Davis and Elizabeth Avellan
Based on Characters by Jim Thomas and John Thomas
Distributed by 20th Century Fox
Released on July 9, 2010 in the United States
Budget of $40 million
Box Office of $127.2 million
Rotten Tomatoes: 65% Tomatometer / 52% Audience Score
Starring
Adrien Brody as Royce, a former U.S. Special Operations Forces veteran turned mercenary
Topher Grace as Edwin, a doctor who does not seem to belong amongst the group of hardened killers
Alice Braga as Isabelle, a sniper from the Israel Defense Forces
Walton Goggins as Stans, a death row inmate from San Quentin State Prison
Oleg Taktarov as Nikolai, a Russian commando from the Spetsnaz Alpha Group who was fighting in Chechnya
Laurence Fishburne as Noland, a United States Army Air Cavalry soldier who has survived on the alien planet for multiple hunting cycles
Danny Trejo as 'Cuchillo', a ruthless enforcer for the feared Los Zetas Mexican drug cartel who carries twin submachine guns
Louis Ozawa Changchien as Hanzo, a Yakuza Inagawa-kai enforcer who rarely speaks
Mahershala Ali as Mombasa, a Revolutionary United Front death squad soldier from Sierra Leone
Quick Facts for The Predator (2018)
Directed by Shane Black (Directed Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Iron Man 3 and The Nice Guys)
Written by Fred Dekker (Wrote and Directed Night of the Creeps and The Monster Squad) and Shane Black (Wrote Lethal Weapon, The Long Kiss Goodnight, and Last Action Hero)
Based on Characters by Jim Thomas and John Thomas
Distributed by 20th Century Fox
Released on September 14, 2018 in the United States
Budget of $88 million
Box Office $160.5 million
Rotten Tomatoes: 34% Tomatometer / 32% Audience Score
Starring
Boyd Holbrook as Quentin "Quinn" McKenna
Trevante Rhodes as "Nebraska" Williams
Olivia Munn as Casey Brackett (The former host of “Attack of the Show”)
Jacob Tremblay as Rory McKenna
Keegan-Michael Key as Coyle (Key and Peele)
Sterling K. Brown as Will Traeger (The People vs OJ Simpson)
Thomas Jane as Baxley (The Punisher)
Alfie Allen as Lynch (Theon Greyjoy)
Augusto Aguilera as 'Nettles
Jake Busey as Sean Keyes
Yvonne Strahovski as Emily McKenna (Dexter)
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