The Predator Will Be An Event
Shane Black’s The Predator is starting to gain a lot of steam. We recently brought you news of the planned sequel here, along with the promotional photo that was released. Black has been most recently describing The Predator to be an ‘Event Movie’ in the same vein as Mad Max: Fury Road, a big budget sequel to the movie franchise rather than a reboot or remake of the franchise.
This will be the fourth movie in the series that began in 1987. Black recently spoke to Thrillist and touched upon this much anticipated sequel. When asked how he 20th Century Fox had persuaded him to write the movie, after declining to do so for the last thirty years:
They called me and I was reluctant. I said, “Look. You guys at Fox, I mean, I enjoy these movies, but we’ve been churning out these AVP whatever, they each cost a certain amount of money, they’re okay, but there’s no effort to elevate them or make them any kind of an event.” They’re just sort of another Predator. “Oh, there’s another one that came out.” They said, “What if we said to you we want to reinvent this, and really treat it with as much of an event status, or as much hoopla as we would the Alien prequel, which is coming out also? We really want to make this something. The kind of movie that people line up for.” I said, “Really, you’ll spend a bunch of money?” They go, “Yep.” I go, “Make it really scale, spectacle?” “Yep.” “Shit, that sounds interesting.”
Shane Black also mentioned that Arnold Schwarzenegger was still in talks to have some part in the sequel, news which will excite fans of the original movie.
Now Alien and Predator are both getting the same treatment, which is only right for two movie franchises so closely linked together. It will also be interesting to see if The Predator gets any more sequels, seeing as the Alien series is currently going through a prequel trilogy. Let’s hope so.
