News is coming in this morning, via Bloody Disgusting.com, that Fox may have chosen the man it wants to direct the third standalone Predator movie, Predators.

Under the stewardship of Robert Rodriguez (who was originally though to be directing, but is instead overseeing the film), the project has a release date of July 9 2010, so there’s clearly little time for messing around. And with that in mind, the reports suggest that British director Neil Marshall is in talks to direct the flick. Marshall, as you more than likely know, gave the world Dog Soldiers, The Descent and Doomsday.

The site reports that the deal hasn’t at this stage been inked, but we suspect that a formal announcement on a director has to be made quickly to hit that tight release date.

And, might we say, Mr Marshall sounds like a fine choice from where we’re sitting.

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