Predators

The 2010 film Predators was directed by Nimród Antal, but it was famously produced and heavily influenced by Robert Rodriguez. Rodriguez originally drafted a script for the movie back in the mid-1990s as a direct sequel to Predator 2. The film was intended to return the franchise to its R-rated action roots.

The ensemble cast features Adrien Brody as the mercenary Royce, alongside Topher Grace, Alice Braga, and Laurence Fishburne. Danny Trejo also appears briefly as a cartel enforcer. The casting of Brody as the gritty lead was controversial at first but was generally praised upon release.

The film introduces two distinct factions of the alien hunters: the standard 'Classic' Predators and the larger, genetically different 'Super' Predators. The plot reveals that the Super Predators have a blood feud with the classic hunters and are using the alien planet as a game preserve. They use larger, more advanced weaponry, like the Hell-Hound.

No, the entire premise of the movie is that the human protagonists are abducted from Earth and dropped onto a distant alien jungle planet. This planet acts as a massive hunting reserve used by the Predators to test their skills against the most dangerous warriors from across the galaxy. The film never shows them returning to Earth.