Thoughts on PREDATORS: Will Robert Rodriguez be able to save the PREDATOR franchise?
With the news that Robert Rodriguez is to reboot the Predator movie franchise (God I’m sick of the term ‘Reboot’ now. Remember when it was little more than a cool CG kids’ show?), several questions have been raised. When will the film be set? Will it be canon alongside the first two Predator movies, or will it fit more with the Alien Vs Predator films? Will it actually be any good?
The answer to that last question is: ‘Probably’. This is Robert Rodriguez we’re talking about here. The man certainly knows his action and his genre staples, so I think the franchise is in good hands. I had a horrible feeling that the next one would see Paul WS Anderson in the director’s chair, and I was ready to weep.
Thankfully, there is a proper director at the helm this time around, and I think that this is one instance of a series being rebooted (Gah) that will work out pretty well. Hopefully the script will be good. Rodriguez did write a script entitled PREDATORS a few years ago, so it will be interesting to see how much of that draft winds up in the finished product. After losing all hope that the Predator movie
