Interview: Harry Miller, Editor

The creatives behind producing, capturing, editing and the VFX on the fourth instalment of science fiction action film The Predator all collaborated to overcome challenges and adapt to new technology workflows.

Unusually, two editors worked in parallel on The Predator. Harry Miller cut the film with a co-editor Billy Weber. The latter has been in the business for 40 years working on major feature films including Top Gun and Miss Congeniality. Miller’s credits, meanwhile, include drama series such as Extinct, Granite Flats and Outcast.

Miller explains the “interesting” approach taken: “We both cut the entire movie independently and at the end of each day we would share what we had done to combine the two versions to make the best final scenes.”

Miller was hired to begin editing in February 2017, dedicating 19 months to the edit and joining director Shane Black (Iron Man 3, and writer of Lethal Weapon franchise) on-location in Vancouver for about five months where the two collaborated to shape the final version of the film.

Accustomed to episodic work, Miller adapted to…