LA Times’ 24 Hours is reporting that Robert Rodriguez is in negotiations with new home studio 20th Century Fox to direct X-Men Origins: Wolverine spin-off, Deadpool.

According 23F:

There’s no deal yet, and the sides need to agree on a number of key points, but it’s moved beyond the casual discussion stage and into the more substantive realm of deal points.

This is exciting news, and if the deal comes off it’s a smart move for Fox – Rodriguez has proven ability to deliver high octane action on a modest budget, Deadpool as a character has great potential.

With this and Matthew Vaughn’s work on X-Men: First Class, it seems Fox is willing to put their trust in talented, individual directors.

After being released to generally positive reviews, and respectable box office, it seems that Fox’s gamble on a mid-budget Predators film has paid off, as IGN reports, according to producer Robert Rodriguez, they are now likely to request another chapter.

Speaking at Comic-Con, Rodriguez said:

[The studio] said, ‘Let’s do some other ones. What other story ideas do you have?’ Because it was like, let’s test out the market with this one. They really wanted it to be pretty contained, pretty scaled-back. They didn’t want to put too many of the ideas into it that we could save for a second one. So we could see what the appetite was, because the bigger movie would actually be what comes following that. That kind of sets up a new storyline, new location and world, and then you can really go crazy from there.

Rodriguez says the next step it to now work with writers to to flesh out the ideas he currently has. Considering the quick turn-around for the current film, it might not be too long before we get Predators 2

A bunch of stunning new character posters for Machete are now online.

Co-directed by Robert Rodriguez and Ethan Maniquis, Machete stars Danny Trejo, reprising his role from the trailer, alongside Robert De Niro, Jessica Alba, Michelle Rodriguez, Steven Seagal, Lindsay Lohan, Cheech Marin, Don Johnson and Jeff Fahey.

20th Century Fox has released the full trailer for Machete, based on the fake trailer from Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino’s Grindhouse double bill.

Here it is, courtesy of IGN:

Co-directed by Robert Rodriguez and Ethan Maniquis, Machette stars Danny Trejo, reprising his role from the trailer, alongside Robert De Niro, Jessica Alba, Michelle Rodriguez, Steven Seagal, Lindsay Lohan, Cheech Marin, Don Johnson and Jeff Fahey.

Apologies for the lack of updates lately – real life took over somewhat for a few days.

However, we are back with news of an excellent international trailer for Predators that has hit the web:

Predators stars Adrien Brody, Laurence Fishburne, Alice Braga, Danny Trejo and Walton Goggins. Directed by Nimrod Antal and produced by Robert Rodriguez, the film is scheduled for release in July 2010

There’s a new video out showing the Predators scoring sessions taking place with composer John Debney. You can check it out below.

Predators stars Adrien Brody, Laurence Fishburne, Alice Braga, Danny Trejo and Walton Goggins. Directed by Nimrod Antal and produced by Robert Rodriguez, the film is scheduled for release in July 2010

Apologies for the lack of recent updates – it’s been a busy few days here, but now we’re back.

Thanks to badtaste.it and screenweek.it, we have a selection of new international posters for Predators.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Predators stars Adrien Brody, Laurence Fishburne, Alice Braga, Danny Trejo and Walton Goggins. Directed by Nimrod Antal and produced by Robert Rodriguez, the film is scheduled for release in July 2010

With release now just a few weeks away, 20th Century Fox have launched a spruced up official site.

Click here to take a look.

Predators stars Adrien Brody, Laurence Fishburne, Alice Braga, Danny Trejo and Walton Goggins. Directed by Nimrod Antal and produced by Robert Rodriguez, the film is scheduled for release in July 2010

Robert Rodriguez has released, via Ain’t It Cool News the first trailer for the full-length Machete movie, itself based on the fake Grindhouse trailer.

 

 

 

Check it out below:

Co-directed by Robert Rodriguez and Ethan Maniquis, Machette stars Danny Trejo, reprising his role from the trailer, alongside Robert De Niro, Jessica Alba, Michelle Rodriguez, Steven Seagal, Lindsay Lohan, Cheech Marin, Don Johnson and Jeff Fahey.

The official Predators site has released another character featurette, this time focusing on Noland, played by Laurence Fishburne.

Check it out below…

Predators stars Adrien Brody, Laurence Fishburne, Alice Braga, Danny Trejo and Walton Goggins. Directed by Nimrod Antal and produced by Robert Rodriguez, the film is scheduled for release in July 2010