The Director

Nimrod Antal was born in Los Angeles, before moving to Hungary at the age of 17. Even before accepting the job of directing Predators, he was clearly a mental film-maker. His feature debut, Kontroll, was in edgy thriler-drama set on the Budapest railway system. Dynamic, fun and completely weird, it set a stage for further craziness to come.

But that was followed by the English-language horror movie Vacancy, which was pretty much anything but. It even had Luke Wilson and Kate Beckinsale in it - about as middle of the road as you can get. That was followed up with Armored, an average but well-shot thriller about a security van heist, with Matt Dillon, Jean Reno, Laurence Fishburne.

Then Robert Rodriguez came knocking with his script written back in 1994. Attracted to the Hungarian's style and attitude, Rodriguez saw in Antal an equal: "We have similar tastes and backgrounds. When we’d be presented with different creature designs or concept art, he’d always pick the same one that I had mentally just chosen. We got along great that way."

For Antal, the chance was a fanboy's dream come true: "Predator, for me, is my childhood. I was a true movie – and Predator -geek." With the hive mind of Rodriguez and Antal, they were determined for Predators to be a movie made by fans of the franchise.

But will it really be what the fans want? None of that studio-driven commercial remake rubbish - just two men, a bunch of men in costumes, and a load of guns?

Here's what the producer and director talking about their approach to the whole thing: