Robert Rodriguez Claims Predators Sequel In Development At Fox

Robert Rodriguez Claims Predators Sequel In Development At Fox

By Peter Sciretta/July 26, 2010 9:30 am EST

At Comic-Con, Rodriguez told IGN:

Rodriguez even has an idea for what can happen in the next film, and says they he will probably have writers pitch their different versions of his basic premise, before the project progresses into the script phase. When asked what a possible Predators sequel might be called at the junket press confrence, this is how Robert responded:

“[The studio] said, ‘Let’s do some other ones. What other story ideas do you have?’” says the filmmaker. “Because it was like, let’s test out the market with this one. They really wanted it to be pretty contained, pretty scaled-back. They didn’t want to put too many of the ideas into it that we could save for a second one. So we could see what the appetite was, because the bigger movie would actually be what comes following that. That kind of sets up a new storyline, new location and world, and then you can really go crazy from there.”

And as far as the “Predator” title, I didn’t reference any of the other later pictures, only because when I originally wrote this, those didn’t exist. I was writing this always as a sequel. In fact, “Predator 2” had come out, but they didn’t want to go that direction, they wanted to get Arnold back. So when I wrote “Predators,” it was to forget that even “Predator 2” was made. This is going to be “Aliens” was to “Alien,” that’s what “Predators” is to “Predator,” so I’ll just tie those two together, so all you would ever have to do is watch “Predator” and “Predators,” and you would have a little complete thing. So, yeah, what would the third one be if there was a third one? It would be “Predator 3,” I guess. [laughter] No, “Predators 2.” [laughter] I don’t know. “Predators” with a subtitle.