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The Predator: Shane Black Talks Designing the Ultimate Predator

20th Century Fox is in the middle of a bidding war when it comes to their intellectual properties, but that hasn't stopped the movies. One of the big releases for Fox comes out in September: Shane Black's The Predator. The movie is kicking off Comic-Con International on Thursday in Hall H, but before that Entertainment Weekly spoke to Black about what the world is like when it comes to Predators in this movie.

I think what has happened when this movie rolls around and opens is that for years, ever since medieval times if the comics are to be included, predators have been visiting Earth, and there have been incursions, but relatively isolated in ways that have managed to go under the radar or escaped notice or been disbelieved. This current one picks up where the visits from the predators are often enough that now people have actually noticed, to the extent that the military and scientific committee has actually put together a group whose job it is to monitor and keep track of this sort of phenomenon, a kind of watch the skies kind of program that is aware that something is out there that sometimes comes and is waiting for that next incursion, so that we can be prepared and jump on it as opposed to being surprised.

We've seen some shots in the trailers and marketing for the new version of the Predator called the Ultimate Predator (because of course it is). Black had a very specific vision for what he wanted this new predator to look like — and even a specific animal.

If the predator was to be an amalgam of, not just an ordinary predator, but also a collection of traits garnered from the various most powerful species that they've hunted, then you basically would have one that is stronger, faster, and smarter. We finally got an image that we liked, which captures this very canny, very cunning, and effortlessly powerful, savage predator. One of the only quibbles that I've had with some of the past predators is that, if you're not careful, it can look like a guy in a football suit; big, bulky guy just stomping around. I wanted a certain more graceful, more light, more athletic quality, literally like a predator. If you watch a cheetah, it's not clunky.

The Predator is one of the wildcards when it comes to big movies this year. No one really knows what to expect from it, and the trailers haven't been blowing anyone's minds yet. If there was ever a time to blow everyone out of the water it would be Hall H.

Summary: From the outer reaches of space to the small-town streets of suburbia, the hunt comes home in Shane Black's explosive reinvention of the Predator series. Now, the universe's most lethal hunters are stronger, smarter and deadlier than ever before, having genetically upgraded themselves with DNA from other species. When a young boy accidentally triggers their return to Earth, only a ragtag crew of ex-soldiers and a disgruntled science teacher can prevent the end of the human race.

The Predator, directed by Shane Black, stars Boyd Holbrook, Trevante Rhodes, Jacob Tremblay, Keegan-Michael Key, Olivia Munn, Sterling K. Brown, Alfie Allen, Thomas Jane, Augusto Aguilera, Jake Busey, and Yvonne Strahovski. It will be released on September 14th

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