On this day in 1988 cinema goers were subjected to one of the most bad-ass sci-fi action films ever crafted, the wondrously over-macho smash hit Predator.
Everyone should know the basics in regards to Predator, so here's a few wee facts you may not know:
- Two of the films' stars, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jesse Ventura, would go on to become governors - Ventura was governor of Minnesota and Arnie was more famously "the governator" of California.
- Jean-Claude Van Damme originally played the Predator back when it resembled a Psiren from Red Dwarf. He was fired due to his refusal to stop kick-boxing as the predator, because he thought the predator should do kick-boxing.
- Predator's blood consists of glow stick filling and KY Jelly.
- Shane Black, who played Hawkins, was hired so that the production crew could have a writer on set to help them with script changes during the film's troubled production. He would also go on to write and direct The Predator.
- During production Arnie got married, but he only took three days off for the wedding day and honeymoon, as his heart truly lied with Predator.
- One of the helicopter rescue crew members was played by John McTiernan, who also played the Predator.
- Optimus Prime and Predator are both voiced by the same dude - Peter Cullen.
- Sonny Landham, who played Billy, had to have a bodyguard with him at all times for security reasons - not to protect Sonny, but to protect other people from Sonny.
- A monkey was hired to play the Predator when jumping through the trees, but he was too scared of the Predator costume.
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