Shane Black’s The Predator is a film that has me extremely excited. The first film is a classic in sci-fi/horror action and the second, with all its flaws, is a ridiculously good time. However, Predators didn’t really do anything for me, leaving me feeling like a brilliant concept was left wanting. That’s why I’m excited for a new venture into that universe, one that might bring back the terror that has been lacking for a while.
In the most recent episode of The Movie Crypt, hosts Adam Green and Joe Lynch invited Fred Dekker, who acts as writer on The Predator, by for a chat to discuss the upcoming sequel. And what Dekker said could have a lot of people very, very interested…
“If you think of the first ‘Predator’ as ‘Alien’, ours is much more ‘Aliens’. It’s not ‘Ten Little Indians’, it’s not, “Let’s kill off all of our characters”, because we have a lot of characters, from a lot of different worlds and ideologies. I don’t mean other planets. It’s a lot of people doing a lot of things in a lot of locations,” Dekker tells the hosts.
Dekker also explained that we’ve already seen what the predators are capable of in the first three films. However, this sequel might delve a bit deeper into the mythology. “What’s behind the curtain? Why are they here? What are they doing? What’s the bigger picture of this?… I think these are questions you can answer, or at least explore, without defeating that sense of scariness. And who knows if their agenda’s changed?” he posits.
The Predator is set for release on February 9th, 2018.