Howard Berger, who got his start with veteran creature designer Stan Winston, and later won an Oscar for The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and is presently working on the creature design for Robert Rodriguez’s ‘Predators’. Berger said that they are invoking as much of the design of the original film as possible.

“We wanted to have the Predator look as it did in the original film,We went back and looked at the original,” he said. “I actually worked in the shop with Stan Winston on the first film. It was great to be able to go back to the series having not been involved in any of the sequels, and it was also great to be able to make sure we built them as Stan Winston did.”

Winston had not been involved in the AVP series.

“They look really fantastic,” Berger continued. “There’s a whole bunch of cool [Predators] in the film, and everyone’s going to be very happy that we’ve been very faithful to the Stan Winston designs. It’s out next year. It’s shooting very soon.”

Predators concerns a very intense group of people stranded on a Predator planet discovering unspeakable horrors—that are not always from outside their group.

Studio 20th Century Fox has scheduled a July 7, 2010 release date for the film.

[Source] moviehole