After a couple of badly received Alien Vs. Predator movies and Robert Rodriguez’s Predators, many had thought the Predator franchise had finally run out of steam. However it seems Fox doesn’t think so as THR reports they’re planning a reboot.
They’ve also hired a good man to oversee it, as Iron Man 3 director and Lethal Weapon creator Shane Black in onboard to write a treatment for the project and direct. As Black is busy putting together The Nice Guys and Doc Savage, he won’t actually write the film himself. Instead those duties will be handled by his old friend Fred Dekker, with whom he wrote 1987’s Monster Squad.
It’s an interesting way of things coming full-circle, as when the original Predator was in the works, the studio continually tried to get Black to take a look at the script, but he refused. They even gave him a small role in the movie in the hope he would give the screenplay a polish, but he still wouldn’t do it. Now though he’s taking the reins completely.
There’s no news on exactly what direction the reboot will take, or whether it will return us to the jungle where Arnie first encountered the alien bounty hunter.
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