“Dexter” and “Chuck” stunner Yvonne Strahovski is set to star in The Predator, a reboot of the popular franchise first introduced in 1987 as an Arnold Schwarzenegger sci-fi actioner. Now shooting in Vancouver, Shane Black directs from a script he co-wrote with Monster Squad writer/director Fred Dekker.

Strahovski plays a MILFy single mom whose troubled young son gets inadvertently caught in the war against the alien predators through his father. Boyd Holbrook (“Narcos”) has been tapped as the dad and overrated kid actor Jacob Tremblay (Shut In) as the son.

Rounding out the cast are action hero Thomas Jane (The Punisher), comedian Keegan-Michael Key, Trevante Rhodes (Moonlight), Alfie Allen (“Game of Thrones”), and geek goddess Olivia Munn (X-Men: Apocalypse) as a sexy scientist.

Strahovski and Munn kicking ass together gives us tremendous hope for this movie, but here’s hoping the kid angle doesn’t ruin the film. The last time Black wrote a kid into an R-rated story was for The Nice Guys, turning what promised to be a gritty, balls-out action-comedy into an embarrassingly sappy and boring mess.