Shane Black looks back fondly on his time as Rick Hawkins in the 1987 film Predator. Oh sure, he gets brutally murdered about an hour in and is the first of our heroes to get picked off, but it's still a treasured memory nonetheless. In fact, it was a desire to revisit his youth that led Black to co-writing and directing 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:The Predator, which lands in theaters September🐓 14 (September 13 in the UK). Or as Black himself puts it, "I had a bit of a midlife 🍬crisis".

Speaking to SFX, Black explained what pushed him to revisiting a franchise he hadn't been involved with for more than 30 years. "I thought, 'Wouldn’t it be great, just as a lark, to go back and be a kid again? What could it hurt to revisit a time that was so special, and a type of filmmaking before video games and CG polluted the market wi🥃th visual overload? When you’re forced to rely on a bit more ingenuity to conjure the same sort of effects? It’🎐ll be a lark. Let’s do it!'"

Black 🎶confessed that such a laid-back attitude proved to be a mistake. Working within restraints of the film's budget, having to deal with Vancouver weather, filming with greenscreen, and the pressure of making a new Predator movie that could stand alongside the original proved stressful. "My God, it's been tough," Black admitted.

"The good news is that all of this knits together very well. It’s been a ride and a nostalgia thing. It was mostly a midlife crisis thing, if I were to be honest about it," Black said. "If it hasn’t exactly made me feel like a kid again, it’s certainly reinvigorated me to keep going. I’m blessed and honored to be viable in moviemaking - I’ve seen lots of people around me fall off. The fact that after 30-something years I’m still able to e💞ven do this is something I’m eternally grateful for. I don’t know why or how I was given that opportunity, but I’m grateful for it."

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