00:00First question, this will be the first time that we are getting a movie from the point of view
00:04of a Predator. So how did that twist come to be?
00:11Was trying to figure out what the next Predator movie could be after the success of Prey and
00:19was challenging myself to come up with something that was more than just another Predator movie
00:26in a different aesthetic. And that's when the idea came, what if the monster, what that famous
00:38classic, modern classic movie monster could be the main character? Which then I realized that's
00:47a huge deal, not just for Predator, but for all of science fiction. We have fallen in love over the
00:53years, um, with creatures as the sidekick, uh, or the villain and never had they been like the main
01:02character of their own movie. And so, um, that's the big deal here was like, Oh my God, we're going
01:08to take this monster and, and I'm going to get you to root for this guy. Um, so yeah.
01:13Yeah. That is a huge, huge twist. So did you get that idea during, uh, the production of Prey or?
01:22Yeah. It was at the, it was at the tail end of Prey people, when people were happy with the movie
01:27and I realized they're going to ask me about a sequel. I better come up with something. Um,
01:35and so, yeah, it was then that I was thinking through and, and, and came up with this.
01:40And then speaking about coming up with something and the, the franchise, the saga, uh, by the end
01:46of Killer of Killers, it was made like very clear that you have a big plan for this, uh, story. Uh,
01:53will we be getting any more clues in Badlands? Uh, could we be getting any more clues here?
01:58There, there, um, are continued connections, uh, in Badlands to the franchise. Um, but I also at the
02:11same time, um, really didn't want to make, cause I, cause I knew I was going to make two at the two
02:16at once here with Killer of Killers and Badlands. Um, I didn't want to make anything feel like
02:22necessary homework. Um, like any movie was just merely a stepping stone to the next thing. Wanted
02:30to make these all feel like essential, necessary movies to be seen on their own terms, um, and worthy
02:41of their own experience. So, um, so yeah, there, there certainly are connections, but none of it
02:48hopefully will come across as like, oh, well, because of this, now I got to see that, you
02:53know? Yeah. Which is currently a deal with many franchises. Yeah. Yeah. Um, so going back
03:01to this twist getting to be from the Predator's point of view, uh, how has that impacted, um,
03:07action design? Because that has been like always a very important element of the movies. So now
03:13having like the, the bad guy being the protagonist, uh, has, has that been interesting to do? I mean,
03:19the thing that I love about the action, uh, really of all my movies, what I've set out to do,
03:26and especially in Badlands is there is so much of it, but not only by amount, but by diversity. Like
03:37there's just so many different kinds of action in the movie, there are great suspense sequences
03:44and, um, great moments of hand to hand combat of sword fighting, um, and of creature peril and,
03:56um, other kinds of weaponry. Every sequence is its own, um, animal. And I, I just love when a movie
04:05is a full meal and this one is, and we designed the suit now, um, to allow the predator to move
04:13the way I'd always hoped it could like a, like a, a real creature and being ferocious and not being
04:20limited by the weight of the, um, head piece and, and the limited visibility that happens when you have
04:28an actor who wears the suit. Um, so we, yeah, we, we've really been able to unleash, uh, from an
04:35action standpoint now. Okay. Thank you. And so a few days ago, you confirmed that there will be
04:41no Xenomorphs in this movie, but, um, could we be expecting any other alien references, um, apart
04:48from El Fanning's character? Yeah. El's, El Fanning's character, Thea, is just the tip of the iceberg
04:56of the amount of, uh, Weyland Yutani that is in the movie. There is a lot, um, of, uh, of the, uh,
05:05of the DNA of, of the alien franchise, uh, in this as well. Yeah. All right. So it's safe to assume
05:12that these two, uh, epic legendary stories will continue to, uh, cross over in the future.
05:20Uh, just making one good movie at a time and then we'll, we'll see what happens. Yeah.
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