Listened to the last OWLF Recording…2016 was the last year they were around before Project STargazer happened. Are OWLF as an agency acting independantly? They appear to have or consider themselves a Private mIltary Company right?
Sean Keyes (featured in the The Predator) is sucked into Stargazer because thats who he works for in the film.
In one of the latest books it explains that Stargazer went away. Too greedy and too "commercial ", putting OWLF back on the front lines.
I think it’s a mixed bag of some time.
FT’s > Around '87
old Dutch > 2025
Dutch > After '87
So there is the OWLF as the FT’s employer, and at the same time there is the OWLF absorbed by SGZR.
From what the missions are saying, I think the incident in ‘The Predator’ got Stargazer removed from the federal budget, and they brought back OWLF because they were getting the same stuff done, just slower and with less cover ups required.
well they are incompetent as all hell. In “The Predator: Hunters and Hunted” Stargazer contracts a team of elite soldiers “The reapers” to capture a live predator. They succeed, but then Sean Keyes, releases that predator and it goes on a killing streak escaping the lab. This is the first capture. Traeger and Keyes did this to show the incompetence of Roger Elliot so they could basically steal the company from him and the general running it.
Now, Karma’s a bitch, because in “The Predator 2018” we see fugitive escape stargazer again. I think it’s fair to say Stargazer got shut down because the assholes had 2 chances to capture a live predator, and both times they let it escape and cause mayhem, leading back to the OWLF who were far more competent and were given control of the reigns once more
Was it Sean, I thought it was the lawyer guy?
Hence why Sean is back with OWLF ( in a more senior position). He didn’t go rogue like the lawyer and Traeger, I mean Traeger died in the movie but the Lawyer guy who was manipulating the political machine for STGZ, was still alive and at that point in change of STGZ, secretly selling alien tech to corporate interests.
I got the impression it was Sean in the book, but it could have been the Traeger’s sidekick, huh. That always bugged me! since they seem to frame Sean as like a tragic character who is likeable, he also “died” the the novelization for “The Predator” though, so I assumed it was just a literature discrepancy.
Haven’t read the novelization of that movie yet, it is on the list though.
I enjoyed the prequel novel quite a bit, it’s one of the better written ones.
OWLF lost its funding. Stargazer never took over. After the events of the…
OWLF was reinstated and stargazer seperated into a seperate company.
yeah, the movie novel is actually really fun imho. Of course it still has Predators Hunting for Autism, which is more than dumb, but it develops the Loonies and Mckenna a lot. All the same goofy plotpoints are there like the Predator Dogs, but it’s just somehow less offensive in novel format. The upgrade gets more of a spotlight and he’s pretty cool. One of his kills in the Mckenna house should have been onscreen because I really think it’s awesome. Unfortunately Fugitive does absolutely fuck all, and not much is known about him. Still, worth checking out imho
Imagine being a company successfully researching and weaponizing alien tech and you get defunded because your bold capture of a live alien escapes & runs rampant on the streets for a single Halloween before being killed by another alien.
Literally what were they supposed to do?
As for novelizations, by their nature they’re based on older versions of scripts which can change several times by the time the film is finished editing anyways. Other times the author just does whatever he wants. Good for trivia at best.
You mean the company who got lucky stumbled on a crashed ship, did no research on the weapons they had, and failed to properly weaponize any of them, and with their first capture handed to them, they decided not to not do any proper research into properly keeping it sedated, and also they forgot to actually restrain it, incase they got it wrong. Its not like this thing is an intergalactic killing machine. Not to mention the fact that they just left his stuff right next to him, and other important collected items are just on display like its a museum and not a research facility. And we won’t get into the fact that their budget on the rent a goons could have been higher as the entire facility could not stop one from walking out. I’m not sure it gets hit by a single bullet. And what’s their first plan when it gets loose? Just kill all their scientists. Oh, and remember how they got the female lead to go to them to answer a question about hybridization, and then for no reason kept her from the one thing that would actually give them the answer they were seeking because they really care about none of this and I’m 90% sure that that much of the budget went to lining the boss’ pockets because no one Outside of Keyes actually seemed to care about what they were doing.
Their mistake was being in an action comedy. Was OWLF so lacking in scientists at this point that they put an autistic 12 yr old in charge by the end of the movie?
I’m not sure that was OWLF, and even so, he seems to be the only person who can read pred stuff.
Did anyone read the novel based on this game? Also a good read with more explanation.
Maybe it is, but as far as I’m concerned none of the story that relates to the movie is canon. Except that stargazer messed up and turned into an illegal firearms manufacturer.
No, I mean the book which was a prequel to this game, called Predator Hunting Grounds. It explains the demise of Stargazer.
And I just remembered and checked, the Extras menu explains why Stargazer left and OWLF came back.
