10 Movies That Were Just Trailers For Other Movies

10. Predators

In 2010, the Predator franchise got what looked to be a major facelift from the uber-successful producer, Robert Rodriguez.

The film promised to deliver on many of the things Predator fans had been waiting decades to see. For the first time, it would take the action off-world and be centered in space, all while fleshing out the mythology and methodology of the Yautja.

The only catch was, it never really delivered on any of those promises.

Yes, the film is technically set off-world, but it isn't on the Predator homeworld, it's just another planet with jungles that look exactly like the ones here on Earth. And while there are a few new touches, such as the Pred-dogs or the Berserker Predator, it never comes close to revitalizing the franchise like Rodriguez had teased.

And that's because Rodriguez had to gut his original script. As has been revealed since, Rodriguez wrote a ginormous space epic of a film but Fox got cold feet, refusing to foot the bill for it. Thus, Rodriguez and co. had to make a smaller Predator film successful first and could then move on to the bigger and better things that were originally in-store.

The film ends on a note that promises the next film will actually take the story into space, but the film under-grossed and audiences never got to see the film they should have gotten in the first place.