Adrien Brody is battling Predators

Posted on October 7, 2009
Filed Under Actors, Directors, Remake

Hold your horses and bring in the cows! I’ve read some strange and surprising casting news over the years but this one is a winner. Mind you, I’m not saying this is a bad choice – it’s just… not what you would expect. Adrien Brody, the Oscar winner, is ready for some serious action in the Predator franchise reboot. I know, it’s… great and weird, at the same time.

Variety reports that 20th Century Fox has surprisingly set Brody to play the heroic mercenary who battles alien hunters in “Predators,” the film creatively being supervised by Robert Rodriguez. Fox has high hopes to spring a new franchise, and Brody has already signed options to return for future installments, sources said. This will be Adrien’s first action hero turn.

Though best known for his Oscar-winning turn in the Roman Polanski-directed “The Pianist,” Brody is playing a character close to the one that Arnold Schwarzenegger did in the brilliant 1987 original “Predator“. (Hands down, one of the best sci-fi horrors ever!) Anyway, Brody is playing a mercenary who tries to keep his team alive when its members are hunted by the aliens. He will star with Alice Braga, Danny Trejo, Walton Goggins, Oleg Taktarov and many more.

Nimrod Antal is directing the film. The production is about to start on location in Hawaii and at Rodriguez’s Troublemaker Studios in Texas. Fox has set “Predators” for release on July 9, 2010.

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