Because the image of Trejo with Machete’s is taken, it looks like he will be an Uzi weilding badass druglord in Rodriguez new Predator reboot.
And now more is revealed on the plot of the hopeful revival of the alien action flick.
Royce is under the surveillance of a Predator. He is snatched up and taken to the jungles of the Predator’s home world along with seven others. These aren’t your ordinary people being abducted. These eight are the most highly noted killers on the face of the Earth.
Danny Trejo is said to be playing a drug cartel named Cuchillo with double Uzis he straps to his back. Other characters include a Russian with a rotary machine gun, a French woman named Isabelle with a sniper rifle, Stans, a prisoner from San Quentin, Mombasa, an African leader in the Sierra Leone squad, a Japanese yakuza enforcer named Hanzo and a FBI wanted criminal named Edwin. There is no world who Royce is – but from the description of him just killing someone and then being abducted, I image he is some kind of serial killer?
I really like the dynamic of bringing violent humans to a Predator world like some sort of training excercise. Maybe the Predators have to graduate before they are permitted to travel the cosmos looking for worthy prey.
I also like that all the dangerous humans appear to be criminals, but I have this nagging feeling that Royce will turn out to be some good guy cop who kicks badguy bums and just saved a sack of kittens from being thrown into the river when the Predators scoop him up. Inevitably he will play out to be the “Hero” we can root for.
I’d prefer it was all criminals. Who do you root for then?
