We’ve seen various trailers (and especially the surprisingly good international one recently), but now here is our first two clips from Nimród Antal’s “Predators.” The first clip is all talk and no action but that’s no bad thing. It appears to be set just after the bad-ass group of humans, who have been transported to the Predators’ game reserve planet, have just been attacked by some Pred-hounds (yep, that’s right, frakkin’ Pred-hounds). It falls to Adrien Brody’s Royce to explain to the rest of the group just exactly what the situation is that they find themselves in. We also get our first decent look at Topher Grace’s Edwin, who we’re now speculating has been absent from most of the movie’s spots to shroud his character in some degree of mystery. He doesn’t really come off quite as bad ass as Alice Braga, Danny Trejo or Larry Fishburne does he — there’s definitely going to be more to Edwin than meets the eye.
The second clip features more of Mahershalalhashbaz Ali and Oleg Taktarovis and its classic “Predators” with the heat vision, the lazer-seeking pinpoint-ing eyes and some incredibly taut action.
Color us excited because we’re really liking the look of “Predators” so far, everything seems positive; they’ve put together a great cast and the idea to transport the action to an alien jungle is awesome. Hell, just going back to any jungle would have been good enough for us. From what we’ve seen so far there should be no trouble whatsoever flushing the memory of those awful “AVP” films from our memory which was surely the top of mind for Antal and producer Robert Rodriguez. And we must say we’ve been pretty disappointed with Antal’s post-“Kontrol” work (his fantastic Hungarian comedy-thriller debut), but this seems to place him squarely back where he belongs. Check out the new clips via JoBlo and Bloody Disgusting below the jump. “Predators” hits theaters July 9.