Wondering why that scene from the Predators trailer where Adrien Brody’s character gets targeted by more than enough laser sights to make sure that he’s got no chance of surviving didn’t appear in the movie itself? The answer, according to producer Robert Rodriguez, is pretty simple: It was never supposed to be in the movie.
Talking to MTV, he explained,
A lot of my movies have trailer shots that I shoot just for the trailer, so that people haven’t seen the movie already but they get the feeling of what it’s supposed to represent… It’s kind of a good twist to do that, if you go and you think that’s what it’s going to be, and then it’s not that and it ends up happening in another place in the movie.
Well, that’s one way of getting around the problem of making sure your trailer doesn’t include all the best shots in the movie, I guess.
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