SKULLS: Production Officially Wraps On Fifth PREDATOR Movie; Amber Midthunder Confirmed As Lead

SKULLS: Production Officially Wraps On Fifth PREDATOR Movie; Amber Midthunder Confirmed As Lead

Cinematographer Jeff Cutter has announced that production on the upcoming fifth Predator movie, which is officially titled Skulls, has now wrapped. Check out a new behind-the-scenes shot...

By MarkCassidy - Sep 13, 2021 04:09 AM EST
Filed Under: Predator

We found out last year that 10 Cloverfield Lane director Dan Trachtenberg would take the helm of a new Predator movie, and hard as it may be to believe since we've barely heard a thing about it while it was shooting, production has now wrapped.

Cinematographer Jeff Cutter shared an Instagram post announcing that principal photography has finished, while also confirming that Legion actress Amber Midthunder will play the lead. It seems Dakota Beavers and Dane DiLiegro - a 6 foot 8 basketball player who is most likely playing the Predator - have also joined the cast.

"And that’s a wrap on Skulls! Can’t thank @dannytrs enough for inviting me along on this epic journey and entrusting me to help achieve his vision for this film! Thanks to a great cast led by @ambermidthunder, @dakota_beavers and @dd and much love to a brave Calgary crew for diving headfirst in with us!"

Plot details are few and far between, but we do know that Midthunder will play Kee, "a Comanche woman who goes against gender norms and traditions to become a warrior."

Shane Black's underwhelming 2018 effort, The Predator, seemed to put the sci-fi action film series to rest for a while, but it looks like 20th Century Studios/Disney is determined to breath new life into the franchise. The script was written by Patrick Aison, whose producer/writer credits include Kingdom, Jack Ryan and Treadstone.

The first - and by far the best - Predator movie came out back in 1987 and starred Arnold Schwarzenegger as the leader of a group of mercenaries who find themselves hunted by a merciless alien creature.

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DarthOmega
DarthOmega - 9/13/2021, 4:20 AM
I didn't even know production started. I had no idea they were making another one.
Spidey91
Spidey91 - 9/13/2021, 4:31 AM
@DarthOmega - LOL, same, I didn't even know this was a thing, let alone that it started production.
JoeInTheBox
JoeInTheBox - 9/13/2021, 5:01 AM
@DarthOmega - Technically it was supposed to be a surprise. A survival thriller named Skulls. Someone leaked that it was a Predator movie and the director confirmed that the "cat was out of the bag" and that yes, his new movie Skulls, is also a Predator movie.

Sort of like if you watched his 10 Cloverfield Lane movie, and you had no idea it was a Cloverfield movie, until the end. Too bad the surprise couldn't be kept on this one.
DarkDetective
DarkDetective - 9/13/2021, 6:44 AM
@JoeInTheBox - i think everyone knew 10 CLOVERFIELD Lane was a Cloverfield movie lol
JoeInTheBox
JoeInTheBox - 9/13/2021, 8:39 AM
@DarkDetective - It wasn't intended to be originally. It wasn't written as one, until Paramount and Bad Robot got a hold of the script and retrofitted it to be a Cloverfield movie. I still think they should have kept the original title as The Cellar, but I get for marketing purposes, the Cloverfield title is more "marketable".
Origame
Origame - 9/13/2021, 4:35 AM
Skull? Thats what they're calling it?
mastakilla39
mastakilla39 - 9/13/2021, 8:17 AM
@Origame - When I saw "Skulls" I thought of King Kong for Skull Island, but this is a weird title. Disney will probably force them to change it to Predator:Skulls before release.
connorblaze
connorblaze - 9/13/2021, 4:39 AM
I still can’t figure out how the great Shane Black ([frick] off Iron Man 3 is great) managed to make such a SHIT Predator movie. Very strange. Hope this is better, Cloverfield Lane was great.
ElricReturns
ElricReturns - 9/13/2021, 5:01 AM
@connorblaze - if you can't figure it out, I suggest starting at "the great Shane Black". He has made some fun movies, and a lot of shit ones. None are great. None.

Iron Man 3 had fun moments, it took risks and ill give it credit for swinging for something different... but it was collectively a terrible Iron Man movie. Just jarringly written, tonally disconnected and somehow boringly paced.
Gmoney84
Gmoney84 - 9/13/2021, 4:47 AM
The only thing that will beat the original is a Predator/Alien/Colonial Marine film in the spirit of the first PC game. Straight combat movie.
marvel72
marvel72 - 9/13/2021, 4:53 AM
So is Amber Midthunder the who is going to try and kick the Predators ass? Because if Arnie and his bad ass crew had trouble, Amber won't stand a chance.
marvel72
marvel72 - 9/13/2021, 6:52 AM
@Waddles - Yeah that would be cool,they should go back to The Vikings.

That race of Indians from the movie Bone Tomahawk would be bad ass as well.
DR3D
DR3D - 9/13/2021, 5:04 AM
A Predator movie was being filmed?
rexlincoln
rexlincoln - 9/13/2021, 5:22 AM
I have a lot of love for Predator 2 and Predators. Not as good as the original but good watches.

Plus I liked 10 Cloverfield Lane and his episode of Black Mirror so I'm down for this.
kylo0607
kylo0607 - 9/13/2021, 5:31 AM
I had no idea there was a new Predator film called Skulls, let alone that it has actually finished filming.
GhostDog
GhostDog - 9/13/2021, 5:41 AM
Trachtenberg reppin' one of my high school rivals, Cheltenham High
Chuck420Taylor
Chuck420Taylor - 9/14/2021, 11:26 AM
@BlackBeltJones - Cheltenham as in, where lil dicky hails....
GhostDog
GhostDog - 9/14/2021, 11:41 AM
@Chuck420Taylor - yessir. You an alumni or from the Philly area?
Chuck420Taylor
Chuck420Taylor - 9/14/2021, 12:57 PM
@BlackBeltJones - funny story. I'm from the area but my HS physics teacher was arrested for selling bud at Cheltenham HS.
GhostDog
GhostDog - 9/14/2021, 1:00 PM
@Chuck420Taylor - LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I spit my Diet Coke out just now
Chuck420Taylor
Chuck420Taylor - 9/14/2021, 3:28 PM
@BlackBeltJones - hey glad I could give you that nugget.
OptimusPrimeTime
OptimusPrimeTime - 9/13/2021, 5:53 AM
I really wanted a sequel to Predators with Adrian Brody and Arnold Schwarzneggar brought to the Predator homeowrld to fight them there. But instead we get.....

"Will go against gender norms..."


All I needed to hear, more woke Hollywood drivel... yall sure this isn't a Kathy Kennedy production.

Nexxttttt...
QuiGonsGhost
QuiGonsGhost - 9/13/2021, 6:10 AM
Oh... alrighty then, another new predator movie
Chuck420Taylor
Chuck420Taylor - 9/13/2021, 6:43 AM
this IP will be good again once they use the comics. so many good stories that could be adapted. predator should be like Cloverfield and time hop every sequel. past future present just do the damn thing.
Juggernaut2021
Juggernaut2021 - 9/13/2021, 7:08 AM
@Chuck420Taylor - Outlander with Jim Cazviel did it well
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