While The Predator has yet to actually return to the silver screen just yet, that’s not stopping the powers-that-be looking forward to what could lie in the future for this iconic genre franchise.
Speaking to Variety, producer John Davis has indicated that the current plan is for this September’s The Predator to be the launching point for a new trilogy of movies. The current hope is for director Shane Black to return for these films, although Black himself is taking the logical approach of getting The Predator out of the way first. And on that front, Screen Rant is now reporting that the film has gone back for yet even more reshoots, which may or may not bode well.
To date, The Predator franchise has been involved in five movies to date – Predator, Predator 2, Alien vs Predator, Alien vs Predator 2, and Predators – but let’s face it, only the first of those are actually any good. And some would even argue that Predator 2 isn’t quite as great as some would have you believe. But still, this is a property, an alien race, that genre fans hold up on a high pedestal thanks to continuous adventures in the realms of comic books, books, video games, etc. Make no mistake, the Predator is a major favourite of so, so many. Whether The Predator can recapture what made this character – this property – so special in the first place remains to be seen, but here at Moonbase Alpha we’re certainly rooting for the picture.
The official blurb on Shane Back’s The Predator reads:
From the outer reaches of space to the small-town streets of suburbia, the hunt comes home in Shane Black’s explosive reinvention of the Predator series. Now, the universe’s most lethal hunters are stronger, smarter and deadlier than ever before, having genetically upgraded themselves with DNA from other species. When a young boy accidentally triggers their return to Earth, only a ragtag crew of ex-soldiers and a disgruntled science teacher can prevent the end of the human race.
At this point, The Predator is set to slay its way to UK screens from September 12th.
