Shane Black Talks The Expensive Predator
Steve Barton
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We’ve been teased with tidbits of director Shane Black’s upcoming entry in The Predator franchise, and today Black spoke with Thrillist about how he was approached for the film and why he took the gig!
“They called me, and I was reluctant,” Black tells the site during an interview about his latest film, Nice Guys with Ryan Gosling and Russell Crowe. “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.’”
Black continues, “I think the first one was great, and it was contained, and it was a perfect little gem for what it was. I think there’s an expansion that needs to take place and also just a love for that era, that movie, and the mythology of the PREDATOR. I think that they came to me knowing pretty much that… they said, basically, if I wanted to make PREDATOR but treat it like it was IRON MAN III instead of just another little movie. I said, ‘Let’s really do it right this time.’”
As for whether Arnold Schwarzenegger might be back, Black said, “Still in talks, script still a secret.”
The new reboot/sequel, being directed by Shane Black (Iron Man 3) from a script he co-wrote with Fred Dekker (The Monster Squad), has been dated for release on March 2, 2018.
Check back soon for more on the progress of The Predator.
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