It’s fair to say that Shane Black’s sequel/reboot The Predator has had a difficult journey to the screen, but after several delays and rounds of reshoots, the movie is finally set to arrive in cinemas next month.
However, it will do so without Edward James Olmos, with the former Battlestar Galactica star revealing to Slash Film that his role has ended up on the cutting room floor and his character removed entirely from the film.
“I’m not in the [film] though – It was too long so my character, they had to take me out,” said Olmos. “They were like half an hour, 3/4 of an hour too long. So I understand why. It was gracious of them to call me and tell me, ‘Hey, we really feel bad,’ you know?”
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Olmos has been cast as a four-star general, but presumably his character wasn’t integral to the film’s plot, or perhaps whatever function he did serve was changed to another character during the extensive reshoots.
From the outer reaches of space to the small-town streets of suburbia, the hunt comes home in Shane Black’s explosive reinvention of the Predator series. Now, the universe’s most lethal hunters are stronger, smarter and deadlier than ever before, having genetically upgraded themselves with DNA from other species. When a young boy accidentally triggers their return to Earth, only a ragtag crew of ex-soldiers and a disgruntled science teacher can prevent the end of the human race.
The Predator features a cast that includes Boyd Holbrook (Logan), Trevante Rhodes (Moonlight), Thomas Jane (The Punisher), Augusto Aguilera (The Fifth Man), Jacob Tremblay (Room) Sterling K. Brown (This is Us, The People v. O.J. Simpson), Keegan-Michael Key (Key & Peele), Olivia Munn (X-Men: Apocalypse), Alfie Allen (Game of Thrones), Yvonne Strahovski (Chuck) and Jake Busey (From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series).
