Robert Rodriguez producing Predator 3?

Tag this with a big rumour sticker for now, but online chatter suggests that Robert Rodriguez has signed up to make a new movie in the Predator franchise.

A 'reliable source' dropped Bloody Disgusting a line, revealing that Rodriguez is producing a Predator reboot for 20th Century Fox through his company Troublemaker Studios.

There's no word on a director or script, but a pitch doing the rounds in Hollywood implies there would be more than one Predator. ("In the reboot a team of commandoes face down a mysterious race of vicious monsters.")

However legit the rumour, Rodriguez does have history with the franchise.

Back when he was a eager youngling waiting to put Desperado into production, Rodriguez wrote a spec script for Predator 3, beginning on an 18th century Galleon attacked by Predators.

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