HE DIDN’T KNOW it at the time, but Dan Trachtenberg was already developing his Predator movie back in 1987, before he’d even watched the original. “I was dying to see it, but I was not allowed,” says the director, who was six when Predator was released. “In third grade, I was on the way to a karate tournament with these [older kids] who had seen it, and over the entire trip they described the whole movie.