Why Shane Black Was Immediately Killed off in Predator

the producer of the original predator and its upcoming reboot is revealing why Shane blanks character didn't last so long in the 1987 film while he's predominantly then known for the past 30 years in Hollywood for his writing and directing skills the predator reboot writer director Shane Black has also on occasion appeared in front of the camera most of the time blacks appearances on film have been in nondescript roles cafe 24 manager in as good as it gets for small supporting roles Donnelly in Robocop 3 yet in his short but memorable debut role in the Arnold Schwarzenegger sci-fi smash predator he actually headlines as Hawkins one of the commando team members sent out to jungles of Central America to encounter what turned out to be the Lethal Alien Hunter as it turns out the reason black was hired for the role not necessarily because of his acting but for another particular set of skills he had but as black found out early in his career if a production has special requests of you on set you should best try to oblige them in a retrospective interview for the 30th anniversary of predator with thr producer Jon Davis says black didn't seen the memo and it cost him Davis says I met Shane on that movie Shane was a really great writer who had just written this great script called lethal weapon we wanted him to do a rewrite on that predator script so we put him in the movie because he's an actor and we got him down there and we asked him to do a rewrite and he said he was an actor in the movie and not a writer so he was the first person we killed he got killed seven minutes into the movie Wilde lacks character met an early demise and predator it hardly killed this career starring Mel Gibson and Danny Glover and directed by Richard Donner Lethal Weapon of course became a blockbuster hit that spawned three sequels and black also wrote such notable action movies as The Last Boy Scout and a long kiss good night as both a writer and director black has made such critically acclaimed films as Kiss Kiss *** *** and the nice guys and of course was the writer and Helmer behind the worldwide smash Iron Man 3 obviously black took Hawkins early death in petted her with good strike otherwise he probably wouldn't be working with Davis again on the predator and while black didn't participate in th ARS retrospective piece on the 30th anniversary of predator which is came for an August 3rd 2018 release he tweeted out a salute and recognition of the film's landmark release date last week it's for the predator let's just hope before the film wrap shooting that none of the actors on the film turned down blacks request to help out with the script