Hungarian filmmaker Nimrod Antal will direct Fox’s “Predators”, according to Aint it Cool News.

Producer Robert Rodriguez reportedly chose Antal – over other rumoured contenders Neil Marshall and – for the job after catching his latest pic, “Armoured”, Screen Gems’ Armoured Car thriller starring Matt Dillon.

‘’When I saw Armored, I could tell he’s also great with action and has a keen eye for casting. He reminded me of Quentin [Tarantino] with how he was able to work with a group of very strong, singular actor talents and make it look effortless”, Rodriguez tells the site. ‘’I know he’ll be able to get the most out of what we want to be an outstanding cast. We really want to go with a character driven action movie, because that’s what we all remember about the original Predator, and we want to take it even further with this.’’

As for what Antal’s “Predators” will be about?

‘’I can’t go too much into the story right now, because we’re still writing’’, Rodriguez, who will shoot the film at his Troublemaker Studios in Austin, says. ‘’But it still involves a very intense group of people stranded on a Predator planet discovering unspeakable horrors (that are not always from outside their group). So like the original movie, the title does have a double meaning. Aliens was a different take on the Alien idea, and an original movie in it’s own right, and that’s what we want to do with this. As to how this movie will be viewed, one of the guys at Fox told me “No one is ever going to talk about AVP again after this film, I will stake my life on it.” And he’s a really nice guy, so I don’t want to see him dead. Now that lives are at stake, it’s no longer a job it’s a mission. Failure is not an option.”

Let’s not bet the farm on it, just yet.