What’s Dutch been up to since facing the ultimate Predator all those years ago?
We’ll find out.
Heck, if it ever actually works out,we might just see him play Conan again.
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One that hasn’t seen any activity on his part is Dutch from 1987’sPredator… until now.
These tapes are gonna be used to essentially keep his story going."
Those who’ve already played know the game isn’t a narrative-driven title.
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It’s a multiplayer shooter that incorporates story elements.
For instance, actor Jake Busey returned to record voice work as his character from 2018’sThe PredatorforHunting Grounds.
The results allowed players to find various hard-drives in different parameters that contained audio messages from Keyes.
One tape, which EW can also reveal, was recorded by Dutch on Sep. 12, 1987.
“Our team at IllFonic sanity-checked it with me,” Gerritzen says of writing Dutch’s arc.
It’s not like after ‘87 [Dutch] went and did nothing to do with the universe.
We actually tied it to the universe."
“It was one of those things where it was like, ‘Hey, Arnolds never come back.
What can we do with this?'”
It just came down to timing.
“We recorded [with Schwarzenegger] like a month before everything started going sideways.
Gerritzen, a longtimePredatorfan since childhood, found himself pitching the story directly to the man behind Dutch.
Fortunately, he mentions Schwarzenegger was “super excited about what we did with it.”
“It’s crazy being able to play him and having him speak those lines.
When we recorded the V.O.
The one-liners that he does in movies are so natural to him.
Simple stuff, like him saying, ‘reload,’ it’s Arnold!”
“Were always playing the game live, were always listening to the community.
So, who knows?
Maybe there are other things that were gonna figure out.”
