9 Movie Spoilers We Didn’t Know Last Week (May 16th)

Even though Shane Black is insistent that The Predator won't be a reboot of the iconic franchise, he confirmed this week that the character will face a design overhaul for the new movie.

Black said, "It’s not to ‘improve,’ it’s [to] make it fun, make it different, make it organically different. So what’s the extension of it that makes sense, that’s exciting? There have been a lot of changes to Stan’s design over the years. These different Predator movies have done different things. Ultimately it’s not about design to me, it’s about the story you want to tell...In The Predator we’re doing a lot of upgrades to what you would consider to be the traditional Predator technology and look, but hopefully the story is what’s going to drag people in, not just the attention to the minutiae."

Considering that Fox is reportedly trying to transform Predator into a big-budget blockbuster franchise, the design change isn't massively surprising, and considering the extensive Predator lore out there, it shouldn't invalidate or betray what came before.