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‘We wanted … to take that very classic creature and the dynamics,’ screenwriter Robert Rodriguez says of turning to 1987 sci-fi hit. By Eric Ditzian, with reporting by Josh Horowitz Adrien Brody in “Predators” Photo: Fox Robert Rodriguez began reimagining a “Predators” movie more than 15 years ago. But for all of his hard work, the result was an overly ambitious script that he admits could never have been filmed at the time. The project went nowhere … until last year. Rodriguez got word from Fox that the studio wanted to revive the sci-fi horror franchise using the writer/director’s script as the jumping off point. He was excited, but at a loss as to how to approach the material all these years later. “It’s almost like there’s three movies in there,” Rodriguez told MTV News. “You could have split it up into three pictures. I didn’t even know what to do with it, because I’d worked on it so long ago. I worked on it so long — about a year — that it was always tough to crack. I needed fresh eyes on it.” Enter Nimr