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200918751-rodriguez-talks
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Yesterday IESB confirmed Bloody Disgusting's scoop that Robert Rodriguez (apparently he's co-directing it) would be behind a new reboot of the "Predator" franchise for Fox.
Aint it Cool News had the chance to catch up with Rodriguez and ask him about his plans for the film, which has since been announced as releasing July 7th 2010.
Rodriguez's initial screenplay for "Predators", which he wrote in the early 90s on spec, saw Dutch (Arnold Schwarzenegger's character from the original 1987 film) being transported to the Predator's home world. There, Dutch is thrown in prison with a bunch of other, er monsters who are all being prepped to battle one another in a sort of Celebrity Deathmatch.
The Austin-based filmmaker doesn't know whether he's going to use that screenplay or not - but hints that some of it will likely be salvaged.
''I got a call from Alex Young over at Fox, who had been digging around and found my original treatment. He was eager to get it made and re-invent the Predator franchise using the treatment as a guide'', says Rodriguez. "The next stage is finding a writer and director to come in and work with us to bring it to life. Whether or not it will ultimately be based on the treatment or not is still unknown at this time".
Rodriguez hints that he'd like to get Arnold Schwarzenegger involved, but hasn't asked him yet. Even If Dutch doesn't return (and personally, I don't think he will - though there is room for an Arnold cameo), some of his earlier screenplay's sequences likely will.
"What I'd like to do with it is expand on ideas I dreamt up back in the original treatment, that had really expanded on the universe both the Predators and other species live in. We'd create new otherworldly characters while not taking away from the draw our main Predator has. I think another reason I called it Predators was to mark it as a project that should be taken seriously by a filmmaker to make a worthy follow up to a classic, much in the way Cameron made Aliens a compelling work on its own, following Ridley Scott's Alien."
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