10 Movie Franchises That Were Rebooted Multiple Times

"If it bleeds, we can kill it."

Arnold Schwarzenegger once said the above statement in regards to the titular beast in 1987's Predator. A classic catchphrase, no doubt, but not the kind of advice that Hollywood executives heeded, because the Predator franchise has been wounded for quite some now, and yet they still won't kill it.

Though the original was a financial and critical success, the underrated sequel, Predator 2, didn't go down as well in either department (undoubtedly due to Arnie's absence), leaving the franchise dormant for 13 years. It then received a spin-off reboot in the form of the two Alien vs. Predator films before being officially rebooted in 2009's Predators.

Like the Terminator franchise continues to do, Predators was a direct sequel to the original classic that ignored everything that came in between and promised to kick-start its own branch of the story. While it was received relatively well, its adequate box office takings didn't help its case and, as a result, the franchise once again disappeared from Hollywood's radar. Eventually, another reboot was announced.

Shane Black's long-awaited The Predator was, like Predators, a direct sequel to the original that set out to tell its own story. Unfortunately, critics hated it and, although it made considerably more money than its predecessor, it was produced on a much larger budget.

As it couldn't quite do what the Halloween reboot did for its own series, the Predator franchise has now been left in a state of uncertainty for a fourth time.