Year: 1994
Actors: Kurt Russell, James Spader, Jaye Davidson, Viveca Lindfors
Directors: Roland Emmerich
Writers: Dean Devlin, Roland Emmerich
Plot: An interstellar teleportation device, found in Egypt, leads to a planet with humans resembling ancient Egyptians who worship the god Ra.
Year: 1987
Actors: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Carl Weathers, Elpidia Carrillo, Bill Duke
Directors: John McTiernan
Writers: Jim Thomas, John Thomas
Plot: A team of commandos on a mission in a Central American jungle find themselves hunted by an extra-terrestrial warrior.
Rebooted: The Predator, open in theaters on September 14, 2018 (USA).
Year: 1968
Actors: Jane Fonda, John Phillip Law, Anita Pallenberg, Milo O’Shea
Directors: Roger Vadim
Writers: Jean-Claude Forest (comic “Barbarella”), Claude Brulé (collaborating writer), Terry Southern (screenplay), Roger Vadim (screenplay), Vittorio Bonicelli, Clement Biddle Wood, Brian Degas, Tudor Gates, Jean-Claude Forest
Plot: In the far future, a highly sexual woman is assigned with finding and stopping the evil Durand-Durand. Along the way, she encounters various unusual people.
Year: 1988
Actors: Kevin Dillon, Shawnee Smith, Donovan Leitch Jr., Jeffrey DeMunn
Directors: Chuck Russell
Writers: Theodore Simonson (earlier screenplay), Kay Linaker (earlier screenplay), Irvine H. Millgate (story), Chuck Russell (screenplay), Frank Darabont (screenplay).
Plot: A strange lifeform consumes everything in its path as it grows and grows.
Actors: Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver, Stephen Lang
Directors: James Cameron
Writers: James Cameron
Plot: A paraplegic marine dispatched to the moon Pandora on a unique mission becomes torn between following his orders and protecting the world he feels is his home.
Director: Wolfgang Petersen
Writers: Barry Longyear (story), Edward Khmara (screenplay) (as Ed Khmara)
Stars: Dennis Quaid, Louis Gossett Jr, Brion James
Plot: A soldier from Earth crash-lands on an alien world after sustaining battle damage. Eventually he encounters another survivor, but from the enemy species he was fighting; they band together to survive on this hostile world. In the end the human finds himself caring for his enemy in a completely unexpected way.
Director: Philip Kaufman
Writers: Jack Finney (novel), W.D. Richter (screenplay)
Stars: Donald Sutherland, Brooke Adams, Jeff Goldblum
Plot: In deep space, a race of creatures abandon their dying world. Pushed through the universe by solar wind, they make their way to Earth and land in San Francisco. Some fall on plant leaves, assimilating them and forming small pods with pink flowers. Elizabeth Driscoll (Brooke Adams), an employee at the San Francisco health department, is one of several people who bring flowers home. The next morning, Elizabeth's partner, Geoffrey Howell (Art Hindle), suddenly becomes distant, and she senses that something is wrong. Her colleague, health inspector Matthew Bennell (Donald Sutherland), suggests that she see his friend, psychiatrist Dr. David Kibner (Leonard Nimoy).
Director: Peter Yates
Writer: Stanford Sherman
Stars: Ken Marshall, Lysette Anthony, Freddie Jones
Plot: A prince and a fellowship of companions set out to rescue his bride from a fortress of alien invaders who have arrived on their home planet. Produced by Ron Silverman and released by Columbia Pictures.
