Adrien Brody cast in 'Predators'

Here’s an unexpected casting if I ever saw one.  Adrien Brody, who has never been in an action film before, has been cast as the lead in Nimrod Antal’s Predators.

Variety are reporting that Brody will play a mercenary that must protect his team members from being hunted by Predators.  His character is billed as being similar to the one Arnold Schwarzenegger played in the original 1987 Predator.

If the script details revealed by Latino Review are accurate, he’ll be playing a character named Royce.  Read more about that here.

Brody, an Oscar winner for his role in Roman Polanski’s The Pianist, apparently lobbied for the part.

He will join Alice Braga, Danny Trejo, Walton Goggins, Oleg Taktarov, Mahershalalhashbaz Ali and Louiz Ozawa, who have all been cast.

Predators will hit screens July 7, 2010.