Over the holiday weekend, 20th Century Fox issued aFebruary 9, 2018release date for their highly-anticipatedPredatorsequel, which will be directed byShane Black. The filmmaker revealed earlier this month that production is scheduled to begin thisOctober, and there have been rumors that originalPredatorstarArnold Schwarzeneggermay return as Dutch. Today we have even more details from co-writerFred Dekker, who compared the movie to the 1986 classicAliens.
Entertainment Weeklyreports thatFred Dekkerrecently appeared on The Movie Crypt Podcast, where he shed some new light on this project. He revealed that this project has a lot of different characters from all over the world, and, unlike theoriginal Predator, they won’t be killing off these characters one by one. Here’s what he had to say.
“If you think of the firstPredatorasAlien, ours is much moreAliens. It’s notTen Little Indians, it’s not, Let’s kill off all of our characters, because we have a lot of characters, from a lot of different worlds and ideologies. I don’t mean other planets. It’s a lot of people doing a lot of things in a lot of locations.”
The originalPredatorhit theaters in 1987, which spawned the 1990 sequelPredator 2, set in Los Angeles. The title creature was spun off inAlien vs PredatorandAliens vs Predator - Requiem, along withPredators.Fred Dekkerrevealed that while there is “a lot of great stuff” inPredator, their new story will be much more complex.
“There’s a lot of great stuff in thePredatorbut it’s very simple. Guys get dropped in a jungle, and there’s an alien monster, and they fight the monster, and they all die except for one - spoiler alert! - and then the thing self-destructs, and there’s a nuke, and then [Arnold Schwarzenegger] flies away. It’s relatively simple. And our idea was, Okay, we know that story already. What’s behind the curtain? Why are they here? What are they doing? What’s the bigger picture of this?… I think these are questions you can answer, or at least explore, without defeating that sense of scariness. And who knows if their agenda’s changed?”
It isn’t known when casting announcements will be revealed, but with shooting scheduled to begin in just a few short months, we should know who’s filling out the cast sooner rather than later. So far, only rapper50 Centis rumored to be starring. It isn’t known if this story will be set in modern day or if it will be a period piece. We’ll be sure to keep you posted with more updates onPredatoras soon as more information comes in.
