As glimpsed in the more recent trailers, there’s a brand spankin’ new “Ultimate Predator” in Shane Black‘s upcoming The Predator, quite unlike any Predator we’ve seen in the franchise’s past. How did this “Ultimate Predator” come to be? Is he, as we posited in a pretty wild theory last month, part human? Perhaps even part… Dutch?
We know that the film’s “regular” Predators are “genetically upgraded with DNA from other species,” but Black talked a bit about the Ultimate version in a new chat with EW.
“If the predator was to be an amalgam of, not just an ordinary predator, but also a collection of traits garnered from the various most powerful species that they’ve hunted, then you basically would have one that is stronger, faster, and smarter,” Black told the site. “We finally got an image that we liked, which captures this very canny, very cunning, and effortlessly powerful, savage predator.”
He continued, “One of the only quibbles that I’ve had with some of the past predators is that, if you’re not careful, it can look like a guy in a football suit; big, bulky guy just stomping around. I wanted a certain more graceful, more light, more athletic quality, literally like a predator. If you watch a cheetah, it’s not clunky.”
In The Predator…
“From the outer reaches of space to the small-town streets of suburbia, the hunt comes home in Shane Black’s explosive reinvention of the Predator series. Now, the universe’s most lethal hunters are stronger, smarter and deadlier than ever before, having genetically upgraded themselves with DNA from other species. When a young boy accidentally triggers their return to Earth, only a ragtag crew of ex-soldiers and a disgruntled science teacher can prevent the end of the human race.”
Jacob Tremblay, Thomas Jane, Edward James Olmos, Alfie Allen and Yvonne Strahovski also star. Jake Busey plays the son of Gary Busey’s Predator 2 character.
The Predator returns on September 14, 2018.
