Producer Robert Rodriguez Talks Re-making "Predators"

(Robert Rodriguez) This one we wanted to do sort of the same, go back to a character based movie where the "Predators" could easily just be the characters themselves.  They could kill each other off before they ever got to meet one of the creatures.  So we wanted to have that sort of tension within the group.  Uneasy alliances...and get it to a point to where you almost forget that there's going to be creatures in the movie, because you're so interested in the story that's going on.  And when you add the creatures to the mix then it's even better.

(RR) It was really important for me that each character felt like they could be the star of their own movie.  That they were rich enough, even if they only said a few lines, that  you could picture a whole motion picture of just that character before they got the planet and if you were just to follow them.  That was a real criteria for me.  And then to see how they would mix together, and how they would have that uneasy alliance.  Either almost kill each other or become friends, and I don't think anyone really ever becomes friends in the movie.  It's just more out of the situation.  People are very professional, very bold, and very strong, and they're all predators.  So you put a bunch of alphas together and you get to see what happens.

(RR) For this script I brought in a couple of writers.  They had written a script called Medieval where they would take these archetype characters and put them together, and they did it in a medieval times...so I was attracted to that idea of just bringing in characters from different walks of life, different areas of the world, dropped on this planet because they were the best at what they did.  So you would have a very mixed group of talent as killers so to speak.

(RR)The idea with the film was to not make it feel like it was...the fifth or sixth movie in a series, but the first.  It's really a re-boot, or just a re-imagining, or however you want to call it.  It just feels like you're watching this for the first time, this series for the first time.  By starting from the beginning, not starting with a lot of...just numbing action and pun action...really getting into the characters of...both the characters of the actors and the characters of the predators themselves, and giving audiences something to just get into again.  Just to sort of re-live the experience of seeing this for the first time and experience this idea for the first time in a new way.