'I am quite sure this will be met with howls of derision, probably aimed at me, but whatever - this is what I have heard...
A special-ops tough guy is in a jungle taking down a target. He quite literally stumbles across an invisible being - a dead Predator. So he grabs the Predator's equipment, takes down his target and goes home (he may blow up a Predator ship, I am not sure I remembered this bit quite correctly). When he gets home, his 12-year-old son happens to see the alien equipment that his dad brought back. The father reluctantly tells him what he knows. And it's about then that another Predator tracks them down, with the intention of taking the equipment back...
I heard this from a very reputable source (using throwaway to protect that source if indeed this is true), and given Black's penchant for wise-cracking kids, it really does fit his MO
I heard this from a very reputable source (using throwaway to protect that source if indeed this is true), and given Black's penchant for wise-cracking kids, it really does fit his MO. It also fits with the quotes we've heard from those familiar with the project - "I think it's genius and I think it's entertaining and what it did is recreate a famous franchise in a different, interesting way; looking at it from a different light.".