Announced just last month, Dark Horse Comics is turning Dan O’Bannon’s original Alien screenplay into a comic series, and today brings more exciting news cut from the same cloth.
Syfy Wire has announced today that Predator: The Original Screenplay is also coming soon from Dark Horse, a five issue mini-series that will adapt Predator‘s unused screenplay!
The comics will be written by Jeremy Barlow with art by Patrick Blaine, and the basis for the story was the script penned by James E. Thomas and John C. Thomas in 1984.
Syfy Wire explains, “At that time, the project was titled “Hunters.” It centered on a group of military specialists on a classified rescue mission. So far so familiar, right? As time goes on, “the team soon uncovers a trail of lies and deceit,” reads the official synopsis. “Something is observing them — tracking their every move. The hunt has begun!”
Barlow told the site, “The bones of Predator are there, but the original idea was so different and in some ways, much deeper than what the movie became — and we lean hard into those differences. Turn all of that over to a pair of dynamic artists like Patrick Blaine and Andy Owens, and the results are spectacular. Predator fans are going to lose their minds!”
Issue #1 arrives Wednesday, June 10. Check out the cover art below, which promises that the monster in the series will be quite different from the Predators we know and love.
