by: The HORROR Man source: Collider
John Davis was a producer on every Predator film. So for him to dish on the franchise is pretty awesome. Especially giving the dirt on why Arnold Schwarzenegger didn’t do Predator 2.
Collider has the exclusive interview with John Davis and gives his ideas on possible sequels, the future of the franchise, and what went wrong with Arnold.
Here is the small interview Collider conducted.
Collider: You started with Predator and I really dug the reboot you did with Robert Rodriguez. How successful was that for the studio in terms of maybe making another one?
John Davis: You know, those Predator movies…Tom Rothman said this to me, “Man, they all seem to make money.” I get a big check every year on my net points off of the original Predator. You know how hard it is to get net points on a studio movie, right? It was hugely profitable. It far exceeded its revenue on DVD than in theaters by three or four times.
You’re talking about the original, right?
Davis: Yes. I talked to Arnold about rebooting Predator and doing something in terms of that. I think in terms of right now, it needs to rest for a couple of years. I can’t see why if we can’t be clever we can’t reinvent it again.
I actually really dug it. I thought Rodriguez did a great job with it.
Davis: Yeah. It was really fun.
It was really good. That’s why as a fan I’d love to see another one.
Davis: Yeah. He changed the setting. He put it on another planet. You have to keep changing the setting. You have to find a clever way to do it. If we were going to do it with Arnold; it was like, “Does it make sense to go back and to put him with a young team?” So maybe it’s 20 years later, you have retired, and you are the one person who has survived one of these encounters. Is that a reboot in the fact that you are in it with a group of young guys? Is that a reboot? You just have to figure out a way to reboot it. Rodriguez rebooted it. It’s all in the planet. The sequel to the first one rebooted it. We should’ve had Arnold in the movie. The deal broke down over $250,000, which is a shame. But it was moved from the jungle to the city. You have to create a freshness about it. When we did Alien vs. Predator we kind of rebooted it because we put the two pieces together. You just have to give it enough time to come up with a new freshness. It is what they did so brilliantly with Fast Five.
