Sadly, Predator 2 grossed just under $60 million, substantially less than its predecessor however, paradoxically, the critical reaction was far more positive. Under the direction of Stephen Hopkins, the titular hunter was slightly redesigned by the legendary Stan Winston to be more “hip”, fearsome, and both visually similar and also distinct from its predecessor. Although the original planwas for Arnold Schwarzenegger to return and be teamed up with either Patrick Swayze or Steven Segal, the Austrian Oak ultimately passeddue to his dislike of the city-based setting and dispute over his salary. While development of a sequel took some time, the concept of placing the titular hunter in the “urban jungle” was a persistent idea right from the start. Predator (McTiernan, 1987) began as the ridiculous concept of pitting Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone) against an extraterrestrial opponent, evolved into a B-movie with a budget that had Jean-Claude Van Damme running around a jungle in a big bug suit, and finally became a box office hit regarded favourably as one of the bestof its genre. When the bodies begin to pile up and shady government agent Peter Keyes (Busey) arrives looking to capture the creature, Harrigan is forced to use all of his wits and resources to tackle the alien predator head-on. Ten years after the first film, stubborn and abrasive Lieutenant Mike Harrigan’s (Glover) attempts to combat the rising violence between heavily armed Colombian and Jamaican drug cartels on the hot streets of 1997 Los Angeles are further complicated by the arrival of a heavily armed extraterrestrial hunter (Hall). Stars: Danny Glover, Gary Busey, María Conchita Alonso, Bill Paxton, Ruben Blades, and Kevin Peter Hall
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