While we liked the film, critics and audiences in general were a bit more indifferent to the Robert Rodriguez produced, Nimrod Antal directed reboot/sequel “Predators.” The film didn’t exactly light up the box office and even more strange, the usually vocal fanboy contingent was quiet on it (though it probably didn’t help that “Inception” opened a week later).
However, speaking at Comic Con, Rodriguez revealed that a sequel was likely. And really, we’re not too surprised. Fox/Troublemaker wisely kept costs on the film low on a $40 million budget, the film has already pulled in $80 million worldwide. Not bad at all. And given Rodriguez’s rep for delivering big action on small budgets, if the same lean and mean approach on the sequel, it could develop into a solid niche franchise for the studio with minimal risk.
No word yet on a director (obviously its a bit too early for that) but Rodriguez would produce. Speaking about where the series would go next, it sounds like he would open things up a bit. Speaking about it, Rodgriguez reveals that the first film was there, “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.”
While we would welcome another visit to the Predator world, it remains to be seen if it will happen. Rodriguez, as usual, has an incredibly busy, crowded slate of projects and it’s probably still a bit off before it moves from an idea to something a bit more concrete.
