Proof positive that Halle Berry is a succubus who leeched away all of Adrien Brody's good sense with that kiss:
In a surprise development, Adrien Brody has been set by 20th Century Fox to play the heroic mercenary who battles alien hunters in "Predators," a reboot of the "Predator" franchise that is being creatively spearheaded by Robert Rodriguez.
Brody will star with Alice Braga, Danny Trejo, Walt Goggins, Oleg Taktarov, Mahershalalhashbaz Ali, and Louiz Ozawa.
Nimrod Antal is directing a film that is about to get underway on location in Hawaii and at Rodriguez's Troublemaker Studios in Austin, Texas.
Fox has set the film for release July 9, 2010.
Best known for his Oscar-winning turn in the Roman Polanski-directed "The Pianist," Brody has an opportunity to reinvent himself as a flat out action hero, playing a character close to the one that Arnold Schwarzenegger portrayed in the 1987 original.
Brody and his Paradigm reps lobbied hard for the role. Fox has high hopes to spring a new franchise, and Brody has signed options to return for future installments, sources said.
Predator is as close to 80s movie perfection as you can get. I have little faith in Rodriguez ever wrenching himself away from making Spy Kids and Sin City sequels long enough to do this, but if he does, I'm going to drive to Austin and bleed him, real quiet, and leave him there.
I mean, come on:
Brody, your Best Actor statuette is dwarfed by the titanic awesomeness of Blain. Fuck off back to Skull Island.
“Remake.” “Reboot.” Split hairs all you want, they’re still going into the jungle and fighting a fucking alien bounty hunter.
I dunno. Everything I’ve read about it has compared it to Cameron’s ‘Aliens’ following ‘Alien’, as it is more of a direct sequel to the first Predator film. They are trying to distance themselves from the Vs. movies, which blew much ass, so that, at least, is a good thing.
Yeah, that’s a movie that cried out for a remake.
Are the Hollywood suits that hard up? (I can’t believe I just asked that question, even rhetorically…)
Rodriguez is producing, not directing, which I take as a good sign actually. Also, this isn’t a remake…