The Hunt has evolved into something very unusual. Analog Jones continues its review of the Predator franchise as we examine Predators and The Predator!

Quick Facts for Predators (2010)

Directed by Nimrod Antal (Directed two episodes of Stranger Things in season 4)

Produced by Robert Rodriguez (Eel Mariachi, Desperado, From Dusk till Dawn, Spy Kids), John Davis and Elizabeth Avellan

Based on Characters by Jim Thomas and John Thomas

Distributed by 20th Century Fox

Released on July 9, 2010 in the United States

Budget of $40 million

Box Office of $127.2 million

Rotten Tomatoes: 65% Tomatometer / 52% Audience Score

Starring

• Adrien Brody as Royce, a former U.S. Special Operations Forces veteran turned mercenary


• Topher Grace as Edwin, a doctor who does not seem to belong amongst the group of hardened killers


• Alice Braga as Isabelle, a sniper from the Israel Defense Forces


• Walton Goggins as Stans, a death row inmate from San Quentin State Prison


• Oleg Taktarov as Nikolai, a Russian commando from the Spetsnaz Alpha Group who was fighting in Chechnya


• Laurence Fishburne as Noland, a United States Army Air Cavalry soldier who has survived on the alien planet for multiple hunting cycles


• Danny Trejo as 'Cuchillo', a ruthless enforcer for the feared Los Zetas Mexican drug cartel who carries twin submachine guns


• Louis Ozawa Changchien as Hanzo, a Yakuza Inagawa-kai enforcer who rarely speaks


• Mahershala Ali as Mombasa, a Revolutionary United Front death squad soldier from Sierra Leone

Quick Facts for The Predator (2018)

Directed by Shane Black (Directed Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Iron Man 3 and The Nice Guys)

Written by Fred Dekker (Wrote and Directed Night of the Creeps and The Monster Squad) and Shane Black (Wrote Lethal Weapon, The Long Kiss Goodnight, and Last Action Hero)

Based on Characters by Jim Thomas and John Thomas

Distributed by 20th Century Fox

Released on September 14, 2018 in the United States

Budget of $88 million

Box Office $160.5 million

Rotten Tomatoes: 34% Tomatometer / 32% Audience Score

Starring

• Boyd Holbrook as Quentin "Quinn" McKenna


• Trevante Rhodes as "Nebraska" Williams


• Olivia Munn as Casey Brackett (The former host of “Attack of the Show”)


• Jacob Tremblay as Rory McKenna


• Keegan-Michael Key as Coyle (Key and Peele)


• Sterling K. Brown as Will Traeger (The People vs OJ Simpson)


• Thomas Jane as Baxley (The Punisher)


• Alfie Allen as Lynch (Theon Greyjoy)


• Augusto Aguilera as 'Nettles


• Jake Busey as Sean Keyes


• Yvonne Strahovski as Emily McKenna (Dexter)

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