Ahead of the DVD & Blu-ray release next month, Shane Black’s The Predator is now available for digital purchase, and we’ve got a fun little “special feature” for you today.
Via AvP Galaxy, Constatine Sekeris has shown off several pieces of concept art for a couple monkey/Predator hybrids that were at one point going to be featured in the film, including one particularly nasty-looking little bugger with multiple limbs. The idea was to showcase the DNA tampering the Predators had been doing, but the creatures were ultimately cut.
Sekeris explains…
“Today I’m sharing a Predator Hybrid Multi Limb Monkey creature. Production designer Martin Whist and Shane Black had notes exactly that of multi limb hybrid Predator monkey. Typically I spend some time exploring in sketch phase if I have the time with simple paper and pencil. For this creature I had to jump right into 3D and blast out something pretty quickly in a night or 2 after hours. Early part of the script there were a lot of different hybrid creatures that Tully Summers and myself tackled. I’m not sure if 3D were in the ship in the pods or the Predator Scientists/Emmisaries were experimenting with different animals and mixing DNA. I think there were some initial quick ideas and wanted to see some quick options to explore if it was something to refine later. In the end all that was cut out of the final edit of the film.”
Check out the two different “PredMonkeys” below!
