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Predator 2 is a movie released in 1990. Its story takes place in 1997, 10 years after Predator (1987) and around the same time as Predator: Killer of Killers (around 1997). In the Predator movies timeline, it comes after Predator (1987) and before Predator: Killer of Killers (around 1997).
"Predator 2," released in 1990, is a sci-fi action film directed by Stephen Hopkins. Set in a dystopian Los Angeles, the movie stars Danny Glover as Lieutenant Mike Harrigan, a tough cop who finds himself battling a deadly extraterrestrial predator amid escalating gang violence. As the Predator hunts both criminals and law enforcement, Harrigan must unravel the mystery of the alien hunter and stop its deadly spree. Gary Busey plays Peter Keyes, a federal agent who wants to capture the creature for study.
The film is set in Los Angeles in 1997, ten years after the jungle mission of "Predator." At the end, the leader of the Predators gives Harrigan a flintlock pistol engraved "Raphael Adolini 1715," the same weapon seen in "Prey" (1719). The skull of a Xenomorph among the trophies in their ship was the first on-screen nod to the Alien films.
The Predator returns to Earth, this time to stake a claim on the war-torn streets of a dystopian Los Angeles.
Credits : Stephen Hopkins (Director)