Actor and former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has expressed his displeasure over the sequels of the Predator franchise saying it has succumbed to the cheaper route in terms of hiring directors and casts, scified.com reported.
Schwarzenegger starred in the 1987 science fiction horror film "Predator," the first released by the franchise. He played Major Alan "Dutch" Schaefer, leader of a special-forces team tasked to rescue potential survivors of a helicopter crash in a remote Central American Jungle.
In a Reddit Q&A interview (transcript published in dreadcentral.com), Schwarzenegger said the studios screwed up the Predator sequels.
"Sometimes studios do a great job with creating sequels, and sometimes they really screw it up bad," said the actor.
"It all has to do with greed. They sometimes want to do it really cheap, and make as much money as possible, so they don't hire the right cast or the right director, because it might cost them an extra billion dollars," Schwarzenegger continued.
"Then they want to rush it and have it come out next spring, even though it's already fall, so how do you do all that? It's stupid moves they make, and therefore, they lose money doing that," he added. "So far no Predator, no matter which one they did after the first one, has really come out that I think was satisfactory to the audience."
However, the former California Governor was all praises for Shane Black, writer and director of the new Predator movie.
"He's a great writer, and he wrote a lot of the great scenes in the first Predator movie, especially a lot of my scenes," said Schwarzenegger.
"He's a very talented guy and a great director, so if he would do it, it would become a great movie if I'm in it or not. But I have not been asked," he added.