The director whose movie seemingly killed the Predator franchise has nothing but good things to say about the filmmaker who later swooped in to rescue it.

“ Dan Trachtenberg saved the franchise ,” The Predator director Shane Black declared in a recent interview with THR , referring to Trachtenberg’s work on the 2022 release Prey , which has been credited with resurrecting an IP left moribund after Black’s own 2018 reboot flopped at the box office.

Black went on to recall how he felt watching Trachtenberg’s refreshing take on Predator lore , which sports a 94% rating on Rotten Tomatoes , compared to The Predator 's deeply disappointing 34%:

His work is impeccable. I saw Prey, and all I could do was say, ‘Sir, my hat’s off. [It] was a really great mythic take. I

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