Hawaii May Host Predators

Hawaii May Host Predators

By Russ Fischer/Aug. 31, 2009 11:00 am EST

Here’s the salient bit from the site Reel Hawaii:

The key data there isn’t the location, but the duration. Eighteen days is not a lot. I don’t know if Rodriguez can push Antal to shoot as fast as Rodriguez does on his own pictures, but by normal standards, eighteen days is barely enough to shoot a couple of big jungle sequences. I like the idea of genre pictures being shot down and dirty, but there’s a line between fast and shoddy, and Rodriguez productions don’t always fall on the preferred side.

Scouts for 20th Century Fox’s $40-million creature feature are back on the Big Island for their third week of scouting Hawaii most of it where a lot of jungles have been looked at. The production would film for 18 days with an October start if the Hawaii portion is a go.

(Edited to add: Eighteen days is just for Hawaii. The entire production schedule is a lot longer than that. I’m primarily wondering how much jungle action we’re likely to see, if that’s the time allotment.)

The Predators shoot reportedly starts later this month in Austin; Nimrod Antal is deep in pre-production right now while Rodriquez and crew are finishing up the Machete shoot. We still don’t know much about the picture at all. None of the locked cast has been revealed, assuming that any key members are actually locked. (Not a point to worry; casting can go right to the wire.) We’ve been told that the film has a group of soldiers landing on the Predator planet, where they have to face the horrors and danger one expects in that sort of situation.