Arnold Schwarzenegger who portrayed Dutch, arguably the most notable and iconic of all Predator adversaries and first one to ever kill a Predator might make a return in a sequel to Predator: Killer of Killers! Director Dan Trachtenberg sat down with Polygon recently to discuss the ending to Predator: Killer of Killers and how it sets up for other iconic past characters to return in a sequel, Arnold Schwarzenegger's Dutch being one of them!
As we learned from the ending of Predator: Killer of Killers, any character who had successfully killed a Predator in combat had been collected and kept frozen in stasis for use later on, whether for new hunts or colloseum-like battles.
As Polygon reports:
The end of the film spends a few short moments traveling through a facility where other captives are being kept on ice. including Naru, Amber Midthunder’s protagonist from Prey. The implication is that anyone who kills a Predator is collected for further battles — a huge change to existing Predator lore, and also a major opportunity for Trachtenberg, Wassung, and anyone else playing around in this canon to bring back any Predator-movie survivor, including Dutch.
“So the movie was made under the code name Warehouse, as that end moment was in the original idea pitch to the studio, and it felt like the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark,” Trachtenberg told Polygon in a video interview. “Certainly Arnold, like many others, was a survivor of his story, and one could easily imagine him up there in cryo, along with any other Earth champion or champion from other planets.”
Sure, one could imagine that, just as one could imagine the 77-year-old Schwarzenegger voicing an animated version of Dutch who’s fresh from the fight in the 1987 movie, instead of getting called back into battle as a septuagenarian. The animation medium and the cryo-storage facility both seem like a perfect way to bring back old characters without considering the actors’ ages, or their ability to perform the kinds of acrobatic, dramatic action sequences seen throughout Killer of Killers.
Dan Trachtenberg goes on to explain that he is actively planning a sequel to Predator: Killer of Killers right now, however did not confirm whether or not Schwarzenegger has been contacted regarding a reprisal as Dutch.
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