Next year, Shane Black will return to “Predator,” but instead of acting, he’ll be directing the blockbuster remake, which Fox hopes can revitalize the franchise (I bet you already forgot about 2010’s failed “Predators“). However, you’ll have another opportunity to your respects to the original as its headed back to the big screen in honor of its 30th anniversary.
June 12, 1987 was the day “Predator” landed on the big screen, continuing the rising the star power of Arnold Schwarzenegger and launching the career of director John McTiernan, whose next two pictures would be “Die Hard” and “The Hunt For Red October.” If you’ve never seen the movie, all you need to know is that it follows a military unit who start getting picked off by a bloodthirsty alien creature in the jungle. Here’s the synopsis:
Major Dutch Schaefer is the leader of a military rescue unit looking for allies captured by guerrillas in the Latin American jungle. At first it seems like any other mission: Dutch and his team of seasoned combat veterans spot a guerilla camp, destroy it, and find the men they were sent to rescue executed. But when Dutch attempts to lead his unit out with a captured guerrilla in tow, something horrifying and inexplicable begins to happen: one by one the men are killed by a mysterious adversary – a Predator from another world.
Suddenly human enmities are forgotten, for Dutch and his dwindling band of survivors are no longer the hunters – instead they are prey to an enemy who blends into the jungle and strikes with inhuman ferocity, agility and power. Stalked by the unseen foe and stripped of his sophisticated weaponry, Schaefer must rely on more than physical strength and modern technology. With the jungle his only ally, he will draw on his inner resources of instinct and intelligence, as he faces his greatest challenge: to stay alive.
We don’t have exact release dates, but keep an eye on your rep house listings for the return of “Predator.”