Shane Black continues to tweak The Predator and one of the casualties is “Battlestar Galactica’s” Edward James Olmos, who was cut entirely out of the film. Olmos was cast in March 2017 as a military character, who most probably was part of the restructured third act in which several Predators were seen on set driving tanks.
The news of Edward James Olmos being cut from The Predator came straight from the man himself. Olmos would have played a four-star general, and he told /Film that his scenes weren’t relevant to the story. “I’m not in the show,” Olmos said, “It was too long so my character, they had to take me out. They were like half an hour, 3/4 of an hour too long. So I understand why.”
After completely refilming the third act, Black is once again set to get behind the camera for some additional photography as they tweak the film for release this coming September.
The Predator also stars Jacob Tremblay, Olivia Munn, Keegan-Michael Key, Sterling K. Brown, Boyd Holbrook, Trevante Rhodes, Thomas Jane, Augusto Aguilera, Alfie Allen and Yvonne Strahovski. Jake Busey plays the son of Gary Busey’s Predator 2 character.
