The Predator – Shane Black Reveals Main Character’s Name
We still know very little about the upcoming Shane Black-directed franchise reboot/sequel The Predator, which is being described as a big-budget event film akin to James Cameron’s Aliens. But based on everything we do know, Black and co-writer Fred Dekker are going big with this one, and that makes us really excited. Read on for the latest.
In an interview with Empire, Black revealed the main character’s name – and it ain’t Dutch.
“The name I’ve given the [hero] in The Predator right now is Quinn MacKenna,” said Black, “And that may change.”
Black also noted that there’s a good reason we know so little about this project.
“We live in a culture where everyone’s like, ‘[I want to] know everything about it before it comes out, and I want to be able to see every moment, and I’m gonna go back and forth on the goddamn YouTube channel and get every goddamn moment and every Easter egg,'” Black pointed out. “[But] I’ll tell you a little bit about it. It’s an attempt to event-ize the ‘Predator’ and make it more mysterious. ‘The Predator’ has been so overdone in a way —very low budget with a guaranteed return; every couple of years there’s a knock-off churned out. It’s gotta get to the point where people buy their tickets in advance instead of saying, ‘Oh, honey, look; another ‘Predator’ movie. No, Adam Sandler’s got this thing on TV; let’s do that instead.'”
“I want people to say, ‘’The Predator’ is coming, I know it’s coming, we want to see it, it’s mysterious, interesting, it’s got the same sense of wonderment and newness that ‘Close Encounters’ had when that came out,'” he continued. “That’s what we want. That’s very impossible to achieve, but we’re going to try.”
The Predator will arrive in theaters on February 9, 2018.
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