Sicario star Benicio del Toro is set to take the lead in the latest Predator film, according to Deadline.
Currently titled The Predator, this will be the fourth in the series featuring the invisible, bloodthirsty alien, which was put on the map by the 1987 original starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. (There are also two crossover Alien vs Predator films, released in 2004 and 2007.)
This latest version will be directed by Shane Black, currently riding high after the success of Iron Man 3 and The Nice Guys. Black also had a small role in the first Predator film, as part of Schwarzenegger’s special forces crew (and the first one to be killed by the alien).
No plot details have yet emerged, but Schwarzenegger criticised the franchise in a Reddit interview, saying the films following his original hit were “not satisfactory”.
