Ultimately, Natali's pitch was not used and 20th Century Fox instead continued production of the film with a script originally written by film director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer, editor, cartoonist and musician Robert Rodriguez in 1994. Predators, directed by Nimród Antal and with Rodriguez producing, ultimately premiered on July 7, 2010 in the United States. Ironically, the film starred actor Adrien Brody as Royce, who had previously starred in Natali's 2009 film Splice.