Back in April, it was confirmed that Sin City director Robert Rodriguez was going to be bringing us a new take on the Arnold Schwarzenegger classic Predator. The new vision will be called Predators, and strangely, people were pretty excited about the news instead of the traditional angry response to remake announcements (just goes to show you how much a great and respected director’s name can make a difference). After many rumors swirled as to who would direct the movie, it was announced that it would be Nimród Antal, a semi-newcomer who helmed Vacancy and the upcoming Armored.

Any sort of remake or sequel to a Schwarzenegger movie immediately brings with it talk off the Governor himself making a cameo, but aside from this, we had no actual casting info or rumors until now. While speaking to Punch Drunk Critic, star of the recently-wrapped Machete, Danny Trejo, either shared or let slip that he would be doing Predators next, and that it would be getting started in about a month. No details on who he might be playing in the movie or if any other names had been cast, but all the same, an exciting first name to be cast.

UPDATE: /Film has discovered a report from ERC which states that Predators will be released on July 7, 2010, which means this one is on that fast track. They also say that no writer or director have been hired, so hold off on all that Robert Rodriguez will be directing stuff!

IESB has the dirty details on a conference that took place at Troublemaker Studios in celebration of a bill being signed to push forward a Texas film incentive program. Press and politicians alike were on hand to hear what Troublemaker main man Robert Rodriguez had to say about the program and the films that he would be able to now film in Texas.

Rodriguez mentions Machete, his sci-fi film Nervewrackers, as well as his live-action movie based on The Jetsons, but also touched on two very interesting titles: Predator and Sin City 2.

Most notably, it looks like Robert Rodriguez will be producing and directing his very own reboot of the classic Predator series called Predators. This confirms a scoop that Bloody-Disgusting received back in January — a scoop that describes the movie as being about “…a team of commandos face down a mysterious race of vicious monsters.” Yes, indeed, an entire race of those horrifying dreadlocked beasts.

It appears that some drama is unfolding in the progress of Frank Miller‘s Sin City 2 — which is assumed to be based on A Dame to Kill. Reports are that The Weinstein Company and sub-studio Dimension Films have run out of time on their contract to produce the much-expected and long-awaited sequel to 2005’s Sin City. On the other hand, the Weinsteins are claiming that that report is completely false, and that they still very much own the property.

Some of the reasons listed for the possible loss of rights are: an extended period of inactivity on the project, which has obviously been going on, considering how long we’ve been waiting for it; as well as the possibility that they didn’t pay more to hold the rights.

Frank Miller spoke to IGN and the slightly popular topic of Sin City 2 came up somewhere along the line. On most occasions this wouldn’t be something that bared much fruit, but in this particular case, Miller offered up some hope for the masses that the movie was indeed taking steps and could be on the way! The hopeful sequel is supposed to based upon the A Dame To Kill For storyline from the graphic novel.

Miller was in the U.K. doing a junket for his upcoming movie The Spirit when IGN popped the question and received this answer: