Not all reshoots are bad. While Fox’s New Mutants adaptation is a complete disaster, their Shane Black-directed The Predator has been going under a series of tweaks following test screenings. To put it in perspective, even New Line Cinema’s IT had several reshoots to inject scares into the final product…
While the reshoots have been reported for a few weeks now, star Keegan-Micheal Key confirmed them in an interview with Cinemablend.
“We just finished (reshoots) last week, and just about three-quarters of the third act was rewritten. And Shane Black is… he’s just a consummate professional, and a consummate writer. He’s a wordsmith! It was a really, really exhilarating experience, and I think that he’s still one of our most vibrant writers of cinema.”
Key gushes over Black’s work (as he should), and really sells the idea that they’ve gone back to make the movie better. Test screenings are both good and bad, and can skew audiences to tell producers and/or the studio what they want to hear. It can also cause filmmakers to over-tinker with their film, while other times it’s the perfect way to find out what’s missing that could make a good movie great. I’ll always give Black the benefit of the doubt.
In The Predator, a group of unsuspecting humans slowly realize that fierce hunter-aliens are in their midst, this time in a suburban setting.
Olivia Munn, Boyd Holbrook, Trevante Rhodes, Thomas Jane, Augusto Aguilera, Edward James Olmos, Alfie Allen and Yvonne Strahovski star. Jake Busey is playing the son of Gary Busey’s Predator 2 character.
Shane Black’s The Predator arrives in theaters on September 14, 2018.
