Several tidbits of news came out of The Predator‘s San Diego Comic Con panel last week, but the most notable was that the movie was going to introduce the film franchise’s very first female Predator. Mind you, we’ve seen various female Yautja in the world of comic books over the years, but the films have yet to bring any into the fold.
That news was first reported by Comic Book Resources, and it quickly spread.
The site wrote, “20th Century Fox today revealed that female Predators will appear in director Shane Black’s upcoming movie. One of the clips screened featured Olivia Munn’s character, Dr. Casey Bracket, about to be attacked by a female Predator in sleek, technical armor, when a larger Predator attacks another one of the aliens, distracting the female Predator.”
Oddly enough, CBR was the only site that seemed to have heard that info during the Comic Con panel, and that’s because, well, they didn’t hear what they thought they did. We’ve been able to confirm with a source close to the production that, unless something changes between now and the film’s release, no female Predators currently exist in The Predator.
The source of the misunderstanding seems to have been that a fan at Comic Con asked if female Predators would ever be introduced in the films, and the stars joked around about not being able to tell male and female Predators apart. And that’s really all there is to that one.
That being said, we’d love to see female Yautja up on the big screen in the future!
