Earlier this week we got our first look at Robert Rodriguez’s Predators reboot in the form of a behind the scene featurette, and now we have the first official teaser trailer for the film. It looks good. The whole ‘world’s deadliest killers thrown together in a remote location and have to fight for survival’ plot has been done a few times before, but I suppose the story isn’t the main reason people would want to see Predators. They want to see people get violently killed by an alien.

Adrien Brody plays Royce, a mercenary who reluctantly leads a group of elite warriors who come to realize they’ve been brought together on an alien planet… as prey. With the exception of a disgraced physician, they are all cold-blooded killers – mercenaries, Yakuza, convicts, death squad members – human “predators” that are now being systemically hunted and eliminated by a new breed of alien Predators.

Predators will be released on July 7th, five days after The Last Airbender.

IMPAwards got their hands on the first official poster for Predators which stars Adrien Brody, Laurence Fishburne, Topher Grace and Alice Braga. It’s quite simple, but still cool.

We saw some behind the scenes footage a few days ago, which you can watch here, and the first trailer should be released in the near future.

“Predators,” a bold new chapter in the Predator universe, shot under the creative auspices of Robert Rodriguez, stars Adrien Brody as Royce, a mercenary who reluctantly leads a group of elite warriors who to come to realize they’ve been brought together on an alien planet…as prey. With the notable exception of a disgraced physician, they are all cold-blooded killers-mercenaries, Yakuza convicts, death squad members – human “predators” that are now being systemically hunted and eliminated by a new breed of alien Predators.

The attendees of the South By Southwest Film Festival in Austin, Texas were treated to a first look at footage from Nimrod Antal’s Predators last night, and luckily for us a sneak peak has been made available for everyone to see online.

Descriptions of the first trailer and an extended clip that were also shown can be read over at ShockTillYouDrop, and you can check out the sneak peak after the jump.

The film is produced and overseen by Robert Rodriguez (Desperado, Once Upon a Time in Mexico), and there’s an introduction by him included in the footage. The full trailer will be available on March 18th, and the film will be released on July 7th in the United States. I was pretty blown away by this footage; the movie looks a lot more expansive than I thought it’d be, and Adrien Brody definitely seems like more of a badass than I anticipated. And of course the presence of Laurence Fishburne adds an air of gravitas to any production.

What did you think about the first look at Predators? Are you excited for the film? How do you think Brody will perform in an action movie?

Image removed due to request from 20th Century Fox

CONFIRMED: there are PREDATORS in PREDATORS.

A dozen photographs taken on the set of upcoming Predators have been uploaded on the AVP Galaxy forums. I guess some of them contain minor spoilers, but nothing that’ll have a huge impact on your enjoyment of the film (I think/hope). If you wanna stay completely clean though, don’t check out the rest – particularly the one on the top right.

The film is being directed by Nimród Antal (Vacancy) and stars – among others – Adrian Brody Brody (The Pianist), Laurence Fishburne (The Matrix), Walton Goggins (Shane from The Shield), Topher Grace (Spider-Man 3…disappointingly), and Danny Trejo (Machete). I’m almost 100% sure I didn’t need to give bracketed examples for most of those names. It’s a pretty impressive cast, considering the potential the premise has for awfulness. Keep in mind that it still also has potential for awesomeness. We shall see in July.

The costumes, make-up, set, etc. all look great, don’t get me wrong… But is it just me – or do the Predators look just like they’re about to do some Mighty Morphin’?

UPDATE: Okay, so 20th Century Fox got them. Fox also cancelled Firefly, Futurama, and Arrested Development. My thoughts on the company are rated M for Mature. You most definitely can’t find the Predators pictures elsewhere.

It was a bit surprising to learn that Adrian Brody had been cast as the lead in Robert Rodriguez’s Predators as he isn’t really known as the action type, however I guess that could be one of the reasons he went for the part. The guy is an Oscar winner so there’s no question he can act, although he doesn’t necessarily have the bulk Arnold Schwarzenegger had when he was taking on the beast in the 80s.

Director Nimród Antal has a pretty good reason for choosing Brody though, as he revealed to ComingSoon:

I think when we cast Adrian, there were a lot of people going, ‘What?’ but at the same time, if we cast a Vin Diesel in that role or if we cast anyone who is Arnold-esque, we would have been attacked for doing that. So we decided early on to go in a very different direction as far as the casting process, but it turned out fantastic. He plays a mercenary in the film and if you look at the guys in Iraq and Afghanistan today, they’re not ‘yolked-out’ Schwarzenegger-looking guys. They’re all very wiry and thin guys, and I think it’s going to play well.”

The director also responded with “time will tell” when asked if Arnie would be making an appearance.

Predators will be set on the Predator home world, where a group of soldiers will battle for their lives against the creatures. io9 managed to get a image from the set in Texas which shows the cast and crew setting up a big shot at Canyon Lake Gorge. “The filmmakers thought the gorge was the perfect look to create an alien landscape.” And I think I agree with him.

I’ve never seen Oscar winner Adrian Brody as the action type, but that all about to change as he’s signed up to play the lead in Robert Rodriguez’s Predators. He will be joined by Topher Grace (Spider-Man 3) who will play “an accountant-type whose unassuming facade masks a dangerous serial killer”.

From Heat Vision:

Written by Rodriguez, Alex Litvak and Michael Finch, the script follows a group of elite warrior-types who are being hunted by members of a race of merciless alien trackers called Predators.

Brody is a man who ends up inheriting the mantle of leader and is known as a hunter of men.

Shooting begins next month in Hawaii then moves to moves to Rodriguez’s Troublemaker Studios in Austin. The movie is slated for a July 9, 2010, release.

Variety also say that Adrian Brody and his reps lobbied hard for the role, probably because we’ve never seen him in a movie like Predators before. It could open up a few more doors for him. Brody has also signed on for more movies, should the first one become a success. I guess he doesn’t die then?

20th Century Fox’s reboot of the Predator franchise will begin filming next month according to Production Weekly. Predators will be directed by Nimrod Antal and produced by Sin City director Robert Rodriguez.

The story will be set on the Predator home world, where a group of soldiers will battle for their lives against the creatures. Recenty Rodriguez told MTV that his reboot will be a direct sequel to the original, possibly ignoring Predator 2, Alien vs. Predator, and Alien vs Predator: Requiem, saying “Maybe people will forget all the bad sequels and only think this one and the original exist”.

That’s fine by me!

Sin City director Robert Rodriguez will be directing and producing a reboot of the Predator franchise for 20th Century Fox according to IESB. The reboot will revolve around a “team of commandoes [who] face down a mysterious race of vicious monsters.”

Rodriguez talked to the audience of press members and revealed his upcoming film slate.

“I’m going to be able to shoot my upcoming Machete here, a sci-fi action film called Nervewrackers, a re-boot of the Predator series called Predators, and a couple of smaller movies called Sin City 2 and The Jetsons.”

It seems Rodriguez will be busy for the foreseeable future so we may not be seeing the reboot anytime soon. I didn’t see the AVP stuff, but I did see the original Predator and enjoyed it. If it is as good as that (or better) i’ll be happy.

Update from ERC: Apparently Robert Rodriguez is not directing, but still producing. The release date is set for July 7, 2010, however no writer or director has been hired as of yet.