Shane Black has brought a lot of entertainment to Hollywood over the years, sometimes as an actor (he played Hawkins in 1987’s Predator ), but mostly as a filmmaker. He created the Lethal Weapon series, wrote The Monster Squad and The Long Kiss Good-Night , co-wrote and directed Iron Man 3 , and more.

But 2018’s The Predator , which he co-wrote and directed, misfired both in front of and behind the camera . It was especially disappointing for fans given his long history with the franchise.

Black aims to bounce back from The Predator with his current release, a thriller called Play Dirty . But he acknowledges that Dan Trachtenberg, the director who took up Predator after The Predator —and is now steering the entire franchise, with animated film Predator: Killer

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