One of the biggest disappointments of the last few years was Predator, Shane Black’s installment in the popular alien-hunter franchise which, while written by Black, who brought us crackers such as The Nice Guys, Iron Man 3 and Kiss, Kiss, Bang, Bang, was a mess, uninspired and well, plain terrible.
For many it felt like the Predator franchise was dead in the water and would likely have to wait a few years if it were ever going to stalk earth again.
But it seems that this simply isn’t the case.
10 Cloverfield Lane director Dan Trachtenberg is set to direct the fifth movie in the series at 20th Century Fox from writer Patrick Aison who is a producer/writer on shows like Kingdom and Jack Ryan.
Andm most exciting of all? It seems that it may, unlike the other movies in the series, not be set in the modern world (or follow on from the disasterous cliffhanger of Predator) but rather will take the series where fans have wanted to to go for quite so time… the distant past.
Fans will recall in the very under-rated Predator 2 (seriously, Danny Glover was awesome in that movie) it was revealed that the Predators have been coming to earth to hunt for a very long time, finding our strongest warriors and going after them as trophies:
Well, now according to a new report, the Predators will go back a couple of hundred years with Trachtenberg reportedly working on a project at Fox called Skulls about “a Comanche woman who goes against gender norms and traditions to become a warrior.”
Now, if that doesn’t sound like a Predator movie (which may also harken back to the superb Aliens Vs Predator comic where the two alien monsters first met at Dark Horse Comics) then I don’t know what does.
And, it does seem, according to Trachtenberg himself, this has been a project he’s been working on for a while:
This was meant to be a surprise. Been working on this for almost 4 years now. I am very sad that what we had in store for how you could discover this movie will no longer happen. It’s a bummer. But also…YAY! https://t.co/pKWz9tDAEB
— Dan Trachtenberg (@DannyTRS) November 20, 2020
Of course, Predator is now owned by Disney, so it’s likely this will be a soft reboot of the franchise and may even feel different to what went before, Whatever it is, I’m a big fan of the Predator and I look forward to a (hopefully)fun return to form.
What say you all? Let me know your thoughts, gang…
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