Predator
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General Phillips of the U.S. Army hired Dutch Schaefer's team on recommendation of CIA agent Al Dillon to rescue a group of politicians trapped in the Val Verde. However, when Dutch and his team of special force ops, which included Dillon, landed in Central America, things did not add up for the group. After finding a string of dead bodies, the crew discovered Dillon knowingly sent them in under false pretenses. Fortunately for Dillon, the team had no time to worry about the deception when Jungle Hunter (a brutal creature with superior strength and the ability to blend into its surroundings) methodically hunting them.
The most notable change during the production of Predator was, after completing only a small amount of filming, completely redesigning the titular creature (originally portrayed by Jean-Claude Van Damme), as it quickly became apparent the design was unsuitable.
The Hunter script featured a scene where a butterfly landed on the immobile Jungle Hunter's arm as it watched Dutch and his men move through the jungle. When Jungle Hunter shooed the butterfly flies away, it momentarily left an impression of itself on the Jungle Hunter's camouflage. Completed footage of this was part of an effects test for the creature, but not used in the film.
Completed footage showed Jungle Hunter mutilating Hawkins' corpse after retrieving it from the tree where it is last seen hanging in the film, presumably to make a trophy. Behind-the-scenes footage shows Shane Black being dressed with fake blood for this scene.
Predator: Concrete Jungle is a sequel to the film, following Detective John Schaefer, Dutch's brother, as he searches for his missing sibling and encounters the Yautja himself.
Predator: Novelization
Seven men. War was their profession, death an occupational hazard. But this time, they weren't fighting a war. They were fighting something far more deadly...
One by one, it stalked them. And one by one, they died, each death more horrifying than the last.
Only one man is left. Major Alan Schaefer. Now, in the heart of the jungle, he must face the most terrifying creature ever to land on Earth. One on one... Publisher's Summary
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Based on the original script, the novelization goes into an alternate, deeper detail of Jungle Hunter, and gives more of an insight into the alien as a being.
A major difference in the novel is that Jungle Hunter is a shapeshifter, capable of mimicking any creature it chooses after sampling it with just the slightest physical contact; at one point, he takes the form of a jackal after finding a tuft of the creature's hair wedged between some rocks (p94). Jungle Hunter is also capable of dissipating entirely, vanishing and becoming part of the blowing breeze (p140).
In his basic form, Jungle Hunter is a tall, humanoid creature with blue or crimson, scaly skin and three-fingered hands (p156). His only weapons are a telescoping spear that it throws (incidentally similar to the Combistick from Predator 2) and a static, spider web-like trap capable of contracting and shredding anything caught in it (similar to the net fired by the Netgun, again introduced in Predator 2). Instead of a Cloak, Jungle Hunter uses his shapeshifting ability and chameleon-like skin to hide (p85). Jungle Hunter can possess any animal he chooses, using them to scout its surroundings or draw them in so that he can assume their form (although it cannot control humans, one of the reasons it is so interested in them (p103)). His blood is translucent and amber in color instead of green, although it still glows at night (p127). Jungle Hunter does not kill men for sport, but rather out of scientific curiosity; the way it horrifically mutilates its prey is an attempt to study and better understand human beings (p43). However, he does keep trophies taken from those it kills on board its ship (p133).
Other notable differences between the novel and the film include:
- The novel includes a brief prologue in which Jungle Hunter scans Earth from aboard its ship in orbit, surveying all of the species inhabiting the planet, finally studying an anatomical image of man (Prologue).
- The novel reveals that Dutch's briefing takes place in the fictional country of Conta Mana, while the remainder of the story occurs in Guatemala. The film never clarifies precisely where events take place, although Predators later revealed that Dutch's mission took place in Guatemala (p6).
- Dutch's team, in the novel, are generally more bloodthirsty and savage, Mac is white, and he, Blain and Dutch are openly racist towards Dillon (p6, 45).
- Blain sports extensive tattoos on his arms (p14).
- Billy, meanwhile, possesses genuine psychic powers, and is able to access the memories of his Sioux ancestors and telepathically connect with Jungle Hunter, although he does not realize these abilities until after the assault on the guerrilla camp (p94). In the film, this comes across as merely something of a sixth sense in the film, and not overtly supernatural.
- In the novel, Jungle Hunter first starts following the team after they discover the downed helicopter (p31). In the film, (p94) does not pick up their trail until after they discover the skinned American men.
- Jim Hopper's name, in the novel, is J. S. Davis (p37). In the film, he is the leader of a Special Forces unit sent to extract the captured CIA agents. In the novel, he is the pilot of the helicopter (p72).
- The guerrilla camp is more substantial than in the film, defended by anti-aircraft weapons and emplaced guns (p46). It also sits atop an extensive underground bunker network, which is where all the weapons stockpiled for the invasion (briefly mentioned in the film) are stored (p59).
- Following Hawkins' death, the team finds Jungle Hunter's footprints. Unlike in the film, Dutch, Blain and Billy are immediately convinced an alien creature was hunted them (p114). In the film, only Billy suspects that something inhuman was hunting them, and no one else is sure until much later.
- Dutch and the team find Hawkins' body hanging in the trees (p117). In the movie, nobody notices it. Later, Jungle Hunter returns to its ship with Hawkins' body and tears out his spine and skull (p133). In the film, he does this to Billy's corpse much later.
- After killing Blain, Jungle Hunter removes all of his internal organs and carries them away when it flees the scene (p121).
- When Mac is firing into the trees, he does not wound Jungle Hunter. Instead, shrapnel from Poncho's grenade launcher hits Jungle Hunter (p123).
- The morning after Jungle Hunter reclaims Blain's body, Anna lets a chameleon crawl onto her arm and watches as it changes color. This scene, shot for the movie, was unused.
- Before making his final stand, Billy applies American Indian-style warpaint to his face (p167). In the film, his camo paint is Indian warpaint from the start. We find out how he dies, with Jungle Hunter slicing him open vertically from his neck to his stomach before tearing out his internal organs, presumably for study (p170).
- After going over the waterfalls, Dutch loses his clothes as well as his equipment, and consequently spends the entire final act of the story naked (p177).
- After Dutch discovers wet mud renders him invisible to Jungle Hunter, he actually watches the extraction helicopter fly overhead, but he is too weak to signal it. He subsequently passes out and has a vivid nightmare about Jungle Hunter mutilating him (p175).
- While preparing his back-to-basics equipment, Dutch additionally dips his arrows in cyanide he gets from suicide pills he is carrying (p179).
- During the final showdown, Jungle Hunter mimics Anna's voice to try to lure Dutch into a trap, almost succeeding before he gives himself away by also mimicking Mac, who has been dead for some time (p187). A similar sequence went planned for the movie.
- The final battle between Dutch and Jungle Hunter leads them into a cavern behind a waterfall, where the two engage in hand-to-hand combat (p189).
- Jungle Hunter actually flees when Dutch begins to gain the upper hand during their confrontation, running back to his ship with Dutch in pursuit (p191). At the ship, Dutch finds over thirty mutilated bodies and several flayed skins hanging from the surrounding trees, before finally killing Jungle Hunter with its own spear as it tries to board its ship, hurling the weapon straight through Jungle Hunter's head (p194). The spear also damages something vital within the vessel. The ship itself that then explodes, as Jungle Hunter does not have a Self-Destruct Device in the book (p195). This version of Jungle Hunter's demise features in early drafts of the film's script.
- When the chopper returns to find Dutch, the soldiers on board almost shoot him as they do not recognize him, but Anna stops them (p199). The book notably ends with Dutch and Anna entering a relationship, something never suggested in the movie.
Predator: German Anthology Series
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Predator, also known as Predator vs. Aliens, is a comic book anthology series. Published quarterly, it featured serialized reprints of existing Dark Horse Predator and Aliens vs. Predator comics for the German market.
- Issue 1-2 (Sept+Nov 1990): contained Predator: Concrete Jungle. Issue 1 used Predator: Concrete Jungle #1 cover, whereas Issue #2 used Predator: Concrete Jungle #4
- Issue 6-7 (Dec 1991+Mar 1992) contains Predator: God's Truth and Predator 2. Both issues contained new covers.
- Issue 8-9 (Dec 1991+Mar 1992) contains Predator: Big Game. Issue 8 used Predator: Big Game #1 cover, whereas Issue 9 used Predator: Big Game #3 cover.
Predator 2
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Los Angeles is enduring a heat wave and a crime wave, so the pressure on police officer Michael Harrigan to solve a strange string of murders is mounting. Harrigan thinks the culprit was among the warring gangs and drug cartels, but Special Agent Peter Keyes knows the truth.
Peter Keyes of the OWLF mentions that a creature identical to the one they are pursuing in Los Angeles stalked and slaughtered Dutch Schaefer's team in Val Verde ten years prior. After his rescue from Val Verde, Dutch experienced adverse health effects (possibly radiation sickness due to exposure to the explosion of the Jungle Hunter's Self-Destruct Device.
Harrigan also sees a video of Anna Gonsalvez aiding government agents, showing the devastating after-effects of the Jungle Hunter's self-destruct device to the U.S. Army.
The novel reveals some deeper information about the Yautja, and certain events are portrayed from City Hunter’s perspective. The novel references the Yautja coming to Earth since the dawn of time to conduct the hunt.
Predator: 2017 - Dead Heat in New York
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A sequel to Predator 2, this story follows Lt. Harrigan as he deals with more Yautja, this time in a run down, crime-ridden New York City.
Predator 3: New Hunters
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In the book, it is the Summer of 1998. Harrigan, now retired, is joined by Dutch Schaefer, now working for the FBI, and Leona Cantrell as the trio decide to take the fight to the Yautja, turning the hunter into the hunted.
Predator: Forever Midnight
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The year is 2117, A.D. Humanity has seized the stars, using reverse-engineered alien technology to explore the far reaches of space. For a hundred years the Yautja, sadistic extraterrestrial hunters, have been a dim memory. For a hundred years, we’ve been safe. That ends now. Cast in daylight for years at a time, the almost eternally lit jungle planet known as Midnight is the home to more than a thousand colonists, explorers building a haven on a new world. But the settlers aren’t alone. The Yautja have been on this planet all along. When the ravenous creatures attack an arriving spacecraft and capture the settlers as both slaves and prey for their hunt, terraforming the planet takes a back seat to a new fight for survival.
Predator: Flesh And Blood
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Humans have all but destroyed the Earth, creating an opportunity for unscrupulous moneymakers to take advantage of the destruction. One family, the Ciejek clan, have made their fortune exploiting Earth’s misfortunes. But with power comes corruption. The members of the Ciejek clan are at each other’s throats, enlisting the help of the fearsome Yautja to settle the score… When the Yautja arrive, however, the brutality the warriors unleash is far beyond what the Ciejek family could have imagined.
Predator: Turnabout
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No cell phones. No zip codes. Now easy way out. In the backwoods of an Alaskan hunting ground, game warden Sloane patrols the countryside for poachers. When he stumbles on the carcass of a Kodiak bear, he assumes that greedy hunters have looted the countryside, again.
But Sloane is wrong. This bear was not killed by poachers, but by a Yautja.
Sloane has other enemies to contend with. Jack Regal, for one, a wealthy adrenaline junkie in the poaching game for the money. He also has people to protect, like Mary Collins, a city tenderfoot in the wilderness looking for the place where her brother died.
Trackers. Poachers. Game hunters. Fighters. The hunters become the hunted in a man-against-man, man-against-beast struggle for survival against the odds.
Predator: South China Sea
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On a remote South China Sea island, a deadly hunt is underway . . . but not the kind of expedition the participants expected. In this remote jungle-covered island somewhere between Thailand and Indonesia some of the most exotic animals in the world have been gathered as the prizes in a challenge of human against nature.
The hunters come from all walks of life: a South African arms dealer, a Romanian ex-wrestler, two former KGB agents, a wildlife TV host, a Thai pirate, and John Gustat, a billionaire with a mysterious past. Each has come to the island for personal reasons, some secret, some deadly. But when the encampment’s owner, ex-Khmer Rouge Colonel Rath Preap, finds the fences cut and his security men missing, it’s clear that the game has turned. And as the hunters battle for survival, they discover there is another creature out for blood–a Yautja with an unstoppable lust for conquest.
Predators
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Brought together on a mysterious planet, a mercenary and a group of coldblooded killers now become the prey. A new breed of aliens pursues the ragtag humans through dense jungle. The group must work together to survive, or become the latest trophies of the fearsome Yautja.
Isabelle says the creature they saw on the Game Preserve Planet matched the "detailed description" by the only survivor of the 1987 mission.
Predator: Incursion
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The first in an epic trilogy crossing! When Yautja spacecraft begin entering human space in alarming numbers, headed toward Earth, the Colonial Marines assume it’s an invasion and launch a full military response. Then when they discover the presence of Xenomorphs, they realize the threat is more catastrophic than anything they could have imagined! Beginning an epic three-book space war that will include: Predator: Incursion; Alien: Invasion; Alien vs. Predator: Armageddon.
Predator: If It Bleeds
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Over centuries, extraterrestrial hunters of the Yautja have encountered (and stalked) humans on Earth and in the depths of space. Offered here are all-new stories - exclusive to this collection - of such hunts throughout space and time, written by name of today's most extraordinary authors. Inspired by the events of the original Predator movies, graphic novels and novels, these adventures pit hunter against prey in life-and-death struggles where there can be only one victor.
Predator: If It Bleeds reveals the Yautja stalking prey in various locations, as well as across the far reaches of future space:
- They hunt in 12th century Japan
- They hunt in 9th century Viking Norway
- They hunt in the American Civil War in the story Stonewall's Last Stand
- They hunt in World War 1 in the story May Blood Pave My Way Home
- They hunt in Vietnam in the story Recon
- They hunt during Hurricane Katrina
- Steve Perry's story Rematch occurs nine years after Turnabout.
- The story Drug War is a sequel to Predator 2
- One story set in the future, Devil Dogs by Tim Lebbon, acts as a prequel to Predator: Incursion.
- Other stories taking place in the future are Chance Encounter, Last Report From the KSS Psychpomp, Indigenous Species, and Gameworld
The Complete Predator Omnibus
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Collects three original Predator novels, continuing the classic franchise: Concrete Jungle, Cold War and Big Game.
The Predator: Hunters And Hunted
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This is a prequel novel to the movie The Predator. The prequel novel will introduce key concepts that then will explode onto the screen in the movie itself.
The Predator
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From the outer reaches of space to the small-town streets of suburbia, the hunt comes home. The universe's most lethal hunters are stronger, smarter and deadlier than ever before, having genetically upgraded themselves with DNA from other species. When a boy accidentally triggers their return to Earth, only a ragtag crew of ex-soldiers and an evolutionary biologist can prevent the end of the human race.
The Creature From The Big Mountain
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A squad of Nazis meet something nasty in the woods in this 1960s-style black and white B-movie styled fan made 22-minute Predator movie.
Film takes place in Europe 1940, with the female, Sarah, being (eventually) mother to Alan "Dutch" Schaefer. The skinned bodies the Predator hangs have a notable red tint, in contrast to the black-and-white of the rest of the film.
Predator: Stalking Shadows
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Predator: Stalking Shadows is the bridge between Predator 2 and the current day continuity.
U.S. Marine Scott Devlin takes on a new assignment that begins with the cleanup of a Los Angeles combat scene revealing what appears to be alien weapons and tech. His next mission, to an equatorial jungle, seems like an assault on a drug cartel until his team finds human bodies, skinned and suspended from the trees. Justifiably freaked out, Devlin digs deeper and discovers hidden truths, clandestine agencies, savage opponents… and an unexpected ally.
Predator: Eyes of the Demon
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The short-story collection Predator: Eyes of the Demon will be released by Titan Books in 2022. This collection of 15 short stories is set in Predator's expanded universe, featuring the ultimate hunters, the Yautja.
Taking place on Earth and in the dark reaches of space, these edge-of-your-seat adventures take place in the recent past, the present, and the future.
King Willie's line, "You can't see the eyes of the demon... until he comes calling." provides the inspiration for the book's title. Predator: If It Bleeds, another anthology inspired by the film Predator, and Alien: Bug Hunt, likewise taken from film dialogue.
Predator: Prey
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Prey is a 2022 Predator film directed by Dan Trachtenberg and written by Patrick Aison. The Walt Disney Company produced the project through their 20th Century Studios banner.
"Prey," which takes place 300 years ago in the Comanche Nation, tells the tale of a young woman named Naru, a strong and accomplished warrior. When danger approaches her camp, she goes out to defend her people since she was raised in the shadow of some of the most legendary hunters who roam the Great Plains. It turns out that the prey she chases and eventually faces is a highly advanced extraterrestrial predator with a technologically sophisticated weaponry, setting up a fierce and scary fight between the two foes.
Prey is the first prequel film in the Predator franchise and the second Predator story to be set in the 18th century, the first being Predator: 1718.
Prey is the second Predator story to involve the Comanche tribe, the first being May Blood Pave My Way Home.
Prey is the fourth story in the Predator franchise to include a Yautja encounter with a bear. The first being the 1997 one-shot comic book Predator: Primal, the second being the 1999 comic book series Predator: Homeworld, and the third being the 2008 novel Predator: Turnabout.
One of the characters in the movie is Raphael Adolini, who serves as an interpreter for French voyageurs. Adolini also appears in Predator: 1718, in which he dies.