After Van Damme left the project, there were money problems with the studio and the film was almost cancelled.ĭirector John McTiernan spoke to creature designer Stan Winston ( Terminator, Aliens, Jurassic Park) to come up with something. The suit had large yellow eyes and a dog-like head and was difficult to move in. Jean-Claude Van Damme was going to play the predator but he found the suit “too clumsy and too hot”. The producers cast 7 foot 2 Kevin Peter Hall instead who had just finished working on Harry and the Hendersons. The original creature suit was vastly different to what appeared in the film. It was also reported that Van Damme was always complaining that the suit was too hot and he wasn’t happy that he wasn’t going to be on camera. Given the huge size of Arnold Schwarzenegger, Carl Weathers and Jesse Ventura, it was clear the producers needed to find someone much bigger than them. Jean-Claude Van Damme was chosen to play the predator and he was going to use his martial arts skills to make the creature a more agile hunter. Native Americans Sonny Landham and Richard Chaves were hired along side Bill Duke, who had previously starred with Arnold Schwarzenegger in 1985’s Commando. The studio then hired Shane Black to play one of the commandos and to keep on John McTiernan due to his inexperience as a film director.
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The producers then had to find actors to play the commandos in the team.Ĭarl Weathers, who had played Apollo Creed in the Rocky films, was the first choice to play Dillon and professional wrestler Jesse Ventura was hired for the role of Blain. Schwarzenegger wasn’t keen on the script been about just him and the alien so he asked them to re-write it that featured him and whole team of commandos. New Zealand director Geoff Murphy was also considered to be director at one point. Producers Joel Silver and Lawrence Gordon first approached Arnold Schwarzenegger with the lead role. Silver brought on Lawrence Gordon as co-producer and hired John McTiernan as the director which was going to be his first studio film. It found its way to 20th Century Fox in 1985 and gave it to producer Joel Silver who Fox thought was the right person to turn the screenplay into a big budget film. Screenwriters Jim and John Thomas got to work and wrote a screenplay originally titled Hunter. Unknown to the team of commandos, someone or something is following them in the jungle… Pre-ProductionĪfter the release of Rocky IV in 1985, a joke was making the rounds saying that Rocky would have to fight an alien in the next entry in the series.
They soon discover the enemy camp and destroy the guerrilla fighters. After been dropped off by helicopters in the jungle, Dutch makes some discoveries along the way which suggest that they were misled by their government as to why they are here in the jungle.
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