Nimrod Antal To Direct Predators?
There’s a new rumor about the Robert Rodriguez-producedPredators, according toLatino Review: supposedlyNimrod Antalis at the top of the list to direct the film. Which would actually be great news, if true. What, you don’t recognize the name? Read more after the jump.
Nimrod Antal isn’t a name that most people know, but it should be. His debut featureKontrollwas a solid, weird thriller about ticket takers in the Budapest subway system. It created a unique underground world where misfits and drunks lived according to their own half-official rules. Antal followed that withVacancy, which could have been just a cheap mid-point between the thriller and torture porn genres. But Antal made it into something much better, and until the ending cops out it is a tense, well-made flick. It’s slight, sure, but works in the thriller mode quite well. Most audiences passed it over in ‘07, which is a shame — the movie is worth a closer look. Antal also hasArmoredcoming up, with Matt Dillon and Laurence Fishburne as armored car drivers who get involved in a divisive heist of their own truck.
So: bottom line: Antal can do tense, and though he’s never done action on the scale of what we’d expect to see inPredators, I’d be confident that he’s got the skills. In fact, I’d love to see him do something like this and be given a chance to work with a lot more money. But there are other people in the running, too. The film, written by Alex Litvak, at last report had about seven people in the running to direct. One,as we reported, isNeil Marshall(Doomsday,The Descent), who is also a great choice.Anothercould beMichael J. Basset, who helmed the upcomingSolomon Kane.
Litvak’s script is based on aPredatorsequel treatment Rodriguez wrote 15 years ago, and will supposedly expand the predator universe. Fox has alreadyannouncedJuly 7, 2010 as the film’s release date, so we’ll be hearing more about the final choice for director, and other details, relatively soon.
