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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 franchise. Black had a supporting role in the original film, while John Davis returns as producer from the first three installments. Starring Boyd Holbrook, Trevante Rhodes, Jacob Tremblay, Keegan-Michael Key, Olivia Munn, Thomas Jane, Alfie Allen, and Sterling K. Brown, it follows a group of PTSD-afflicted soldiers and a scientist who must team up to fight off an invading pair of Predators and discover their plans for mankind.

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 re-written and re-shot 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. The film received negative reviews and went on to earn $160 million worldwide, becoming the highest grossing film in the franchise.

Plot

A Predator ship crash-lands on Earth. U.S. Army Ranger sniper Quinn McKenna and his team are attacked by the Predator while on a hostage retrieval mission. McKenna incapacitates the Predator and has parts of its armor sent by mail 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 restraints, kills lab workers and armed guards, but spares Bracket, the only unarmed person, before leaving.

McKenna is bussed off with a group of other government captives, including former Marines Gaylord “Nebraska” Williams, Coyle, Baxley, Lynch, and Army helicopter pilot Nettles. Seeing the Predator escape from the lab firsthand, they hijack 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. However, Rory, McKenna’s son with autism has gone trick-or-treating while wearing this armor in hopes of avoiding detection from bullies.

McKenna and the others find his son just in time to stop a pair of Predator hounds (from Predators) from ambushing the boy. McKenna kills one of the dogs by shooting a grenade into its mouth, causing the dog to explode. Nebraska accidentally lobotomizes the other dog after shooting it in the head. The Predator chases them into a nearby school. They start to give the Predator’s armor back when another, much larger Predator arrives and engages the first in combat. The group flee, and the second Predator kills the first Predator before setting out to retrieve the lost technology.

Bracket concludes that the Predators are attempting to improve themselves with the DNA of humans and, presumably, other planets’ inhabitants. The team flees to an abandoned barn, but Traeger finds them, captures them, and shares his theory that the Predators anticipate that climate change will end their ability to retrieve human DNA for further hybridization, so they are scrambling to retrieve it before it is too late. Seeing Rory drawing a map to the spaceship, Traeger takes the boy away to go to the ship. The team escapes and goes after him with the help of the now docile, brain-damaged Predator dog.

When all are at the crashed Predator ship, the second Predator arrives, kills Lynch, and explains through translation software that it will blow up the ship to keep it out of their hands and then give them all a head start before it hunts them down. The Predator quickly kills several of Traeger’s soldiers while mortally wounding both Baxley and Coyle, who then euthanise each other. Traeger tries to use a Predator weapon on the alien but accidentally kills himself in the process.

The Predator takes Rory, believing that his autism reflects advancement in human evolution and is therefore worthwhile in the Predator hybridization, and flies away in his ship. McKenna, Nebraska, and Nettles land on the ship’s exterior, but the Predator activates a force field. This slices Nettles’ legs off, and he falls off of the ship to his death. Nebraska sacrifices himself and slides into the ship’s turbine, causing it to crash. McKenna sneaks into the ship as it crashes and attacks the Predator. After the crash, Bracket arrives, and the three manage to overpower and kill the Predator with its own weapons. They pay their respects to their fallen comrades with trinkets representing each one before heading off.

Some time later, McKenna and Rory are seen in a science lab watching the opening of cargo found on the Predator’s ship, which a scientist indicates was left behind on purpose. A piece of technology floats out and attaches itself to a lab worker, working as a transformative “Predator killer” suit before deactivating.

Cast

Boyd Holbrook as Quinn McKenna, Emily’s estranged husband, the father of Rory and an Army Ranger Captain who discovers the existence of the Predators and leads the battle against them.
Trevante Rhodes as Nebraska Williams, a former Marine officer who joins in a special Predator-hunting operation headed up by Quinn and becomes his closest ally.
Jacob Tremblay as Rory McKenna, Quinn and Emily’s son, who has a form of autism and is bullied in school, but becomes a key player in the fight against the Predators due to his preternatural ability to learn languages.
Keegan-Michael Key as Coyle, a Marine veteran, who teams up with Quinn and Williams to fight the Predators.
Olivia Munn as Casey Bracket, an evolutionary biologist who joins the crew’s mission.
Sterling K. Brown as Will Traeger, a government agent and Director of the “Stargazer Project” who jails Quinn, but later needs his help with fighting the Predators.
Thomas Jane as Baxley, a Marine veteran from the Afghanistan and Iraq wars who is suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. His character was named after Craig R. Baxley, the stunt coordinator of the 1987 film.
Alfie Allen as Lynch, a former Marine who teams with several other outsiders, including Quinn, to stop the human-hunting Predators in suburbia.
Augusto Aguilera as Nettles, a former Huey helicopter pilot and religious zealot who has suffered a traumatic brain injury from a crash.
Jake Busey as Sean Keyes, a head Stargazer scientist, the son of Peter Keyes (played by Busey’s father Gary Busey in Predator 2).
Yvonne Strahovski as Emily, Quinn McKenna’s estranged wife and the mother to Rory.
Other cast members in smaller roles include R. J. Fetherstonhaugh as Agent Church, Peter Shinkoda as Dr. Yamada, Lochlyn Munro as Lt. General Marks, Nikolas Dukic as Derek, Gabriel LaBelle as EJ, Niall Matter as Sapir, Mike Dopud as Dupree, and Garry Chalk as a postal worker. The Predators were portrayed in-suit and via motion capture by stuntmen Brian A. Prince and Kyle Strauts, with vocal work by Brian A. Prince.

Stuntwoman Breanna Watkins, in scenes that were filmed but not used, portrayed Ellen Ripley in one alternate ending, and an adult Rebecca “Newt” Jorden in a second alternate ending, meant to tie in to the Alien franchise in which those characters first appeared. Edward James Olmos had a supporting role as a military general, but his scenes were cut due to time constraints. Françoise Yip as Cullen (credited as “Tracking Supervisor”). Yip who previously appeared as Ms. Yutani in Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem.