Like father, like son.
Deadline is reporting today that Jake Busey has just been cast in Shane Black’s The Predator. It’s of course interesting to note that Busey’s father, Gary Busey, was the star of the 1990 film Predator 2. To make this even more interesting, perhaps even fateful, Gary Busey was 45 years old at the time Predator 2 was shot. Jake Busey’s current age? Yup. 45 years old!
No character details are available at this time, and we’re thinking it’d be fairly silly to suggest that Jake will be playing the son of his dad’s character, Peter Keyes. But you never know!
Sterling K. Brown, Jacob Tremblay, Yvonne Strahovski, Olivia Munn, Alfie Allen, Keegan-Michael Key, Thomas Jane, Augusto Aguilera, Boyd Holbrook, and Trevante Rhodes also star.
Strahovski was cast as the mother to Tremblay’s character, a troubled young boy accidentally drawn into the conflict with the fierce alien creatures by her ex-husband, played by Holbrook.
Little else is know about the film, which *may* be set in the suburbs and *may* feature a 10-foot-tall, genetically-enhanced Predator. Neither of those things have been confirmed.
Black co-wrote the script with Fred Dekker (The Monster Squad).
The Predator arrives on February 9, 2018.
