“The Predator” Director afterwards “Prey” and “Badland’s” director for the rescue of the franchise

Shane Black has brought a lot of entertainment to Hollywood over the years, sometimes as an actor (he played Hawkins in 1987 Predator), but mostly as a filmmaker. He created them Fatal weapon Series, wrote The Monster squad And The long kiss good nightwrote and guided Iron Man 3and more.

But 2018’s The predatorWhat he wrote and directed was missing both wrong before And Behind the camera. It was particularly disappointing for the fans in view of his long history with the franchise.

Black aims to jump back The predator With his current publication, a thriller called Play dirty. However, he admits that Dan Trachtenberg, the director who recorded Predator after The predator– and now controls the entire franchise with animated film Predator: murderer of the murderer And Predator: Badlands Publish this year – receive a lot of credit.

“Dan Trachtenberg saved this franchise,” said Black The Hollywood reporter. “His work is flawless. I saw preyAnd everything I could do was to say: “Sir, my hat is over.” That was a really great myth. I feel like an audience now and I’m just happy to see what he is doing. So, yes, I am glad that the franchise still hums, as they say, and at least for the time being it is the right shepherd for it. “

Predator: Badlands arrives on November 7th.

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