Jacob Tremblay joins The Predator (hopefully as The Predator)

Room's breakout star and all-around excellent tiny human, Jacob Tremblay, is joining Shane Black's reboot of The Predator.

The Hollywood Reporter states the actor's signed on for Twentieth Century Fox's big reboot of the classic sci-fi action franchise, one that's hoping to revitalise the series in the same way the studio's approached the Alien franchise with Prometheus, and the upcoming Alien: Covenant.

Tremblay is set to star alongside Boyd Holbrook, Sterling K. Brown, Keegan-Michael Key, Trevante Rhodes, and Olivia Munn; with Thomas Jane also apparently in negotiations to join the cast. Tremblay will be playing Holbrook's son, an ex-Marine who discovers the existence of aliens but struggles in finding anyone who'll actually believe him.

Black co-wrote the script with Fred Dekker and will be directing. "Back in the original, there was a real sense of mystery, I thought," Black has said of the film. "And discovery, when this thing came to Earth. Then it sort of became over the years, with the iconic makeup - you could almost find a good-looking Predator by going to Comic Con - it had lost its lustre; in the sense that it was no longer mysterious in the way the alien in Ridley Scott's first Alien was mysterious."

"If we could even capture half of that creepiness that he had and, also, keep some of the humour of the first one, too; I'm just keeping the torch for what I think was the better version. This one's supposed to feel like: get your tickets a month in advance, you know its coming, it's exciting to you in the way hopefully that Prometheus or the Alien prequel will be. So, we're trying to up the stakes that way; just making it full of ideas and mystery,"

Tremblay also stars in Lionsgate's Wonder, which sees Perks of Being a Wallflower's Stephen Chbosky adapt the R.J. Palacio novel; the story follows August "Auggie" Pullman, a young boy born with facial differences who becomes an unlikely hero upon joining the fifth grade. He stars across from Julia Roberts and Owen Wilson.

Production on The Predator stars in Vancouver in February.