@wysps
Yeah I understand that concern, but if the quality of the film is good on its own merit, I'm not going to get bogged down on one tiny gripe. Say 90% was on point, I can look past the 10%.
End of the day, it's crunch time now imo for the franchise. It's in desperate need of a fresh injection of ideas. And I think taking it into a grounded serious revenant style tone and direction could be the right call.
I absolutely love the revenant, so I suppose I'm hyped and biased because I actually envisioned this happening when I watched the revenant one time ages ago. It was the long drawn out scene at the beginning, when they are in the trees, and I was like damn this would work sweet with predator. Another idea I had was a predator film in the style sicario.
Either way it's the news I've been wanting. Just someone to grab hold of this thing and take it in a interesting direction. And I believe skulls could just do that.