

The Predator chases them into a nearby school, and they start to give the Predator's armor back when another, much larger and more powerful Predator arrives and engages the first in combat. Nebraska unintentionally lobotomizes the other dog after shooting it in the head. McKenna kills one of them by shooting a grenade into its mouth, causing it to explode. McKenna and the others find his son just in time to stop a pair of Predator hounds from ambushing the boy. However, Rory, McKenna's autistic son, has gone trick-or-treating in the armor in hopes of avoiding detection from bullies. Taking Bracket with them, they head over to McKenna's estranged wife, Emily, where he expects to find the Predator armor he mailed off. Witnessing the Predator's escape from the lab, they hijack the bus. McKenna is bussed off with a group of other government captives, including former Marines "Nebraska" Williams, Coyle, Baxley, Lynch, and Army helicopter pilot Nettles. The Predator awakens, breaks out of its restraints and kills the lab workers and armed guards, but spares Bracket, the only unarmed person, before escaping. Bracket discovers that the Predator contains human DNA as part of his genetic makeup and her primary task is to discover how. Traeger also takes the Predator to a lab for experimentation and observation, recruiting evolutionary biologist Casey Bracket to study it. At the behest of government agent Will Traeger, McKenna is captured and held for examination. McKenna incapacitates the Predator and has parts of its armor sent off by mail to prove the existence of extraterrestrial life. Army Ranger sniper Quinn McKenna and his team are attacked by the Predator while on a hostage retrieval mission. It grossed $160.5 million worldwide on a $88 million production budget, becoming the highest-grossing film in the franchise.Ī Predator ship crash-lands on Earth. The Rotten Tomatoes critical consensus calls it "another missed opportunity". 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. Filming took place in British Columbia from February to June 2017, with the climax being re-written and re-shot in July 2018 following poor test screenings. 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. 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. Starring Boyd Holbrook, Trevante Rhodes, Jacob Tremblay, Keegan-Michael Key, Olivia Munn, Thomas Jane, Alfie Allen, and Sterling K. Black had a supporting role in the original film, while John Davis returns as producer from the first three installments. It is the fourth installment in the Predator franchise. The Predator is a 2018 American science fiction action horror film directed by Shane Black and written by Black and Fred Dekker.
