A Predator ship crash-lands on Earth. Army Ranger sniper Quinn McKenna and his team are attacked by the Predator on a hostage retrieval mission. McKenna incapacitates the Predator and has its armor mailed off to prove the existence of extraterrestrial life. At the behest of government agent Will Traeger, he is captured and held for examination. Traeger also takes the Predator to a lab for experimentation and observation, recruiting evolutionary biologist Casey Bracket to study it.
The Predator awakes, breaks out of its bonds, kills lab workers, but spares Bracket before leaving. McKenna is buss-ed off with a group of other government captives, including former Marine Gaylord “Nebraska” Williams, military veterans Coyle and Baxley, helicopter pilot Nettles, and Lynch, another former Marine. Seeing the Predator escape from the lab firsthand, they take over the bus. Taking Bracket with them, they head over to McKenna’s estranged wife, Emily, where he expects to find the Predator armor he mailed off.
The Predator is a 2018 American science fiction action film directed by Shane Black and written by Black and Fred Dekker. It is the fourth installment in the Predator film series, following Predator (1987), Predator 2 (1990), and Predators (2010) and the sixth installment when including Alien vs. Predator (2004) and Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem (2007). Black had a supporting role in the original film, while John Davis returns as producer from the first three installments. The film stars Boyd Holbrook, Trevante Rhodes, Jacob Tremblay, Keegan-Michael Key, Olivia Munn, Thomas Jane, Alfie Allen, and Sterling K. Brown and follows a group of PTSD-afflicted soldiers who must fight off an invading pair of Predators.
Talks of a new Predator installment began in June 2014, with Black being confirmed as writer and director; much of the cast signed on between October 2016 and January 2017. Filming took place in British Columbia from February to June 2017, with the entire climax being reshot in July 2018 following poor test screenings.
The Predator premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 6, 2018, and was theatrically released in the United States on September 14, 2018 by 20th Century Fox, in IMAX and Dolby Cinema, as well as standard formats.[4] The film received mixed reviews from critics and grossed over $160 million worldwide.
The Predator (2018)
Directed by: Shane Black
Starring: Olivia Munn, Boyd Holbrook, Trevante Rhodes, Jacob Tremblay, Keegan-Michael Key, Sterling K. Brown, Thomas Jane, Yvonne Strahovski, Jake Busey, Brian A. Prince
Screenplay by: Fred Dekker, Shane Black
Production Design by: Martin Whist
Cinematography by: Larry Fong
Film Editing by: Harry B. Miller
Costume Design by: Tish Monaghan
Set Decoration by: Paul Healy, Hamish Purdy
Art Direction by: Ravi Bansal, Michael Diner, Shannon Grover, Andrew Li, Cheryl Marion, Peter Mihaichuk, David Scott, Callum Webster, Loic Zimmermann
Music by: Henry Jackman
MPAA Rating: R for strong bloody violence, language throughout, and crude sexual references.
Distributed by: 20th Century Fox
Release Date: September 14, 2018
