The Predator! From it’s first appearance in 1987, it has captured audiences attention as one of the more iconic alien hunters in modern film. It is with this in mind, that 20th Century Fox has major plans in place in their hopes to revitalize the franchise. To accomplish this, they have delayed the film’s release twice to accommodate director Shane Black to make sure it is just right for fans.
With multiple reshoots, fans have questioned about the film’s status ahead of the film’s premiere in September. In order to allay those concerns, Black shed some light on the status of the film.
“The first time we shot the third act it was daytime,” Black said to Empire Magazine. “It’s all this spooky stuff but then it’s bright sunlight. It just didn’t work. So I said ‘Ummm, can we do this again at night?'”
A location change was also made as they also moved the setting for the film’s climax to a forest.
As part of the push to revitalize the Predator mystique, the movie will also debut a brand new species of Predator, which they are dubbing the Ultimate Predator. Black called the new version of the skilled killer is “bigger, meaner and nasty as hell.”
“Ten feet tall and midnight black, bristling with spines, skin thickened with chitinous organic armour – the product of harvesting DNA from the deadliest creatures on every world it has hunted,” Black said. “The ultimate expression of Predator dominance.”
The goals for the new film, as the film makers saw it, became how to deliver something new to strike fear in not only the characters, but the audience.
“The challenge became to make it frightening,” Black recently shared with Empire. “’Cause upon that hinged everything — whether you bought our heroes going up against him and felt a real threat for them. We had to invent a scenario in which the Predators were mysterious and scary again.”
The Predator stars Boyd Holbrook, Trevante Rhodes, Jacob Tremblay, Keegan-Michael Key, Olivia Munn, Sterling K. Brown, Alfie Allen, Thomas Jane, Augusto Aguilera, Yvonne Strahovski, and Jake Busey. The Predator lands in theaters on September 14th.
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