Predator has been reimagined as an adorable Pixar classic. The 1987 film featured giants of action cinema both in front of and behind the camera, including future Die Hard director John McTiernan, future Iron Man 3 writer-director Shane Black, and already-established action icons like Arnold Schwarzenegger and Carl Weathers. It follows an elite group of commandos who encounter a violent alien hunter deep in the Guatemalan rainforest.
YouTube creator Yellow Medusa has used various AI programs including ChatGPT and Midjourney to imagine what Predator 1987 might have looked like if it was a Pixar movie.
The video is a strange vision, recreating the macho characters at the center of the film in a cuddly animated style. Instead of a violent hunter, the Predator is a lost creature who looks something like a Funko Pop and needs help to return to his home planet.
Could An Animated Predator Ever Happen?
While the idea of an animated Predator film seems far-fetched, the franchise has been known for radically shifting itself over the years. The series has always been prone to experimentation. In fact, its first sequel, 1990’s Predator 2 already avoided repeating the storyline of the original by setting the story in Los Angeles rather than a new jungle.
What followed were a string of films that continued to reshape the idea of what a Predator movie could be. This includes two crossovers with the Alien franchise, the 2010 thriller Predators (which takes its cues from Lost by placing an unlikely group of people into a mysterious and dangerous situation), and the action-comedy outing The Predator. Most recently, the franchise took experimentation to the next level with the prequel movie Prey, which followed a young Comanche woman in the early 1700s.
While every Predator movie is different, the franchise has never appeared in animated form. However, it’s gotten quite close as multiple comic books and video games have been adapted from the property. Given the success of Prey, filmmakers may eventually decide to continue pushing the franchise to the limit and make an animated movie a reality, even if it would likely be much more R-rated than what is presented in this video.
Source: Yellow Medusa
