There have been no actors cast in The Predator just yet. Following on from Shane Black’s update with Collider earlier this week, Eric Walkuski of JoBlo had the chance to chat to Black as well. Talking to JoBlo, Black confirmed that no-one had been signed up to the cast in The Predator just yet:
“We’ve got a solid script, but I like to say it’s a living document, to the extent that we haven’t cast anybody yet. And when we cast it’s going to have new voices to add to it.”
So those of you worried about Curtis Jackson appearing in The Predator can take a breath! In regards to the recent casting rumour about Boyd Holbrook, Black spoke a little about del Toro’s departure and the possibility of Holbrook appearing in the film:
“I hope so. By an act of god, that’s the way it seems to be headed. It’s quite good news. With Benicio [del Toro] and the scheduling, we just couldn’t make it work. We have a release date and we had to start much later than we wanted to. This way, the silver lining is this kid, who I’ve spent some time with now, he’s just marvelous, he’s amazing.”
In a new update from JoBlo, Shane Black says no actors cast in The Predator just yet!
Shane Black has also been on the phone to a different Eric, this time Eric Eisenberg of CinemaBlend where they discussed the physique of whoever ends up being cast in The Predator:
“You know, at some point we might beef up Mr. Holbrook a little bit, give him a physical workout schedule. That’s what we all had to do on the first Predator! We had to become a slightly more exaggerated, beefy version of ourselves. It’s a shame — schedules just could not allow us to proceed in any way that met our start date that we insisted on with Benicio. But we do have this wonderful actor! That’s the good news.
[Boyd Holbrook] is a guy who is fantastic, and we’re gonna beef up the rest of the cast, and make announcements very soon about the members of this team that we’re setting up. And it’s all people I really want, and want to work with. It’s going to be a very exciting cast.”
So while no-one may have officially signed on yet, Shane Black seems to have his sights set and it’s about getting ink on paper.
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I think that scene deserves some credit, she did what she does best.
50 cent won't be main focus of the film either. Seriously we survived Thoper Grace in Ps and even he didn't broke it.
The fact that he is rapper is irrelevant.he is a bad actor.so bad he bought one of his roles.
Probably because she barely did anything.
You know.. the male pornstar and the wrestler that acted in the first Predator movie
didnt really "decrease" the quality of the film.
But i'm sure a rapper will destroy the credibility of a brand new predator film! Cant trust them rappers!
Hopefully it won't be the "Alien 3" of the series.
casting etc , 2018 is the estimated Theatrical release , .
from Feb 20 2017 to May 15 2017
https://www.dgc.ca/assets/Uploads/BritishColumbia/AvailsProductionLists/Documents/Production-List.pdf
You can twist the words , it doesn't change the fact this guy will decrease the quality of the movie.
It's going to be such a "painful" wait haha, I'm hoping Dark Horse will be dishing out a whole host of tie-in material like they have been with the Fire & Stone/ Life & Death stuff... maybe a few more novels too! :-D
So yeah, The Predator is filming in February of 2017 and we're all excited I think!
So Destroy All Monster 2 then?
As long as it's fun, entertaining and good looking, i'm ok with it not being credible.
So impressed.
He wouldn't be credible as a tough guy, he wouldn't be credible as a dead corpse lying on the floor.
Plus, whether you like him or not, he's got a huge fanbase behind him, making it totally understandable to be an option with them wanting to "beef up the supporting cast".
Except 50 cents being considered and meeting Shane once, so far it's allright.
Nothing confirmed, no. Just comments from a fairly reputable source. Aside from Holbrook and del Toro, I don't think Black ever spoke about the cast.
Oh and Fred Dekker confirmed Curtis Jackson was being considered for a role.
Ew, I am glad they will take their business elsewhere then.
Only Hollywood has the means to stop this rampage, with the A-List Destroyer that will pump out all the best and most well known names for this movie. It will pacify the creature and convince it to go back into the ocean and enjoy The Predator in peace and quiet for the next century or so.
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Grain of salt like always but: apparently it was a hard sell for these actors. And the property is not seen as cool. And it was shocking they even got that far with del Toro.
Is there a chance the actors rumored to have been offered the role were never approached to begin with? I'm not familiar with the reliability of some of these scoops so excuse me if I'm missing something.
"Ohhhh! Oh my! I might get a disease if I work on a Predator movie! Hollywood might point and laugh at me and I'll be blacklisted oh God! Oh this is awful. Ohhhh I'm gonna ever so faint. Sign me up for War Dogs and The Accountant but please, no, not the dreadlocked alien movie. Anyyyyything but the dreadlocked alien movie! Oh my fragile heart."
True. true. It's certainly a possibility. Seems like an odd lie though. I mean, we obviously know he's working on it and they're casting.
He could just be lying (benevolently.) For example, Mark Frost said quite sincerely in interviews throughout 2012-2014 that he had never spoken to David Lynch about doing any new Twin Peaks, and when the new series was actually announced it turned out they'd been planning it since 2011. Sometimes you just have to lie outright to protect whatever's going on behind the scenes, or to avoid disappointing some people if things don't pan out.
and the gore he can add.
I have more fate in this now or is it faith?
Good news all around then. Shane casts very carefully and with them pushing the filming back to feb., Holbrook doesn't look like a last minute solution anymore, he really seems to think he's a great choice for this.
I find that comment a little surprising too. I do have to wonder what else has been going on because according to the interview with Collider they haven't officially even entered pre-production yet. Can't help but wonder what he's been doing or wonder if ADI have been working on the film unofficially in prep?
Another update re: the cast -
http://www.cinemablend.com/news/1577960/how-shane-blacks-the-predator-is-adjusting-to-life-without-benicio-del-toro