Now that Twentieth Century Fox has locked down a March 2, 2018 release date for The Predator, casting should be getting underway soon.
Even if a little premature, it appears director Shane Black has some very specific actors in mind.
We already know Black is having lunch with Arnold Schwarzenegger, potentially to reprise his role as Dutch.
Now, Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson is telling people that he’s probably going to star in the Predator followup, being penned by Fred Dekker.
“I’ll be doing some new feature films and stuff like that too. I’ll do Predator,” Jackson told Sirius XM’s Shade 45.
He confirms this in a second interview, this time with 99 Jamz UnCensored: “I’m working on some new projects. You heard of the movie Predator? I might be a part of that project this summer.”
Jackson already has a relationship with Schwarzenegger as he co-starred in Escape Plan with Sylvester Stallone.
Producer John Davis recently exclaimed that the next Predator would reinvent the franchise, while we’ve been told by insiders that it’s a direct sequel to John McTiernan’s 1987 Predator. Most recently, Black stated that The Predator will be an expensive “spectacle”!
