Line #23 Trivia/Predators


1	* ActingForTwo: Stuntman Brian Steele portrays both the Berserker and Falconer Predators.
2	* ActorSharedBackground: Mombasa is a Muslim, as revealed early in the film when he performs the Salat (daily prayer) while the group takes a break in the scene where Royce notes that the sun has not moved since their arrival. In real life, Creator/MahershalaAli is a Muslim himself.
3	* BTeamSequel: Music/AlanSilvestri was asked to write the film's score, but could not due to scheduling conflicts with ''Film/TheATeam''.
4	* BillingDisplacement: Despite prominent billing, Creator/LaurenceFishburne has less than 15 minutes of screentime. Creator/DannyTrejo has more screentime, and his character is the first one to be killed in the movie.
5	* CastTheExpert: A particularly cool example. Creator/LouisOzawaChangchien has been practicing kendo since he was five, and did his own stunts for Hanzo's fight with the Falconer Predator, but the crew didn't know that when he was cast. He brought his kendo teacher (who he considers a second father) on to help choreograph the scene.
6	* DeletedScene: [[https://avp.fandom.com/wiki/Predators_deleted_scenes More details here]].
7	* DyeingForYourArt: Creator/AdrienBrody packed on quite a bit of muscle to play Royce.
8	* ExecutiveVeto: The original plan was to alter the Creator/TwentiethCenturyFox logo, putting a heat vision filter (as seen from the Predators' viewpoint) over it halfway through the fanfare. The studio nixed that particular idea.
9	* FakeNationality: Danny Trejo and Mahershala Ali match their characters' ethnicities, but are American, and the Israeli is Brazilian (Creator/AliceBraga).
10	* MultipleLanguagesSameVoiceActor: Oleg Taktarov dubbed his own voice in the Russian version.
11	* NoStuntDouble: Creator/TopherGrace performed some of his own stunts, including jumping off a waterfall.
12	* PlayingAgainstType:
13	** Creator/AdrienBrody, known for playing nice, physically nonthreatening guys, plays Royce, the ripped badass loner soldier. The casting helps characterize Royce as a thoughtful, intelligent guy on top of being a badass. The filmmakers also noted that they kept Brody lean because real-life soldiers usually have such a build, rather than the bulging beach muscles of Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger.
14	** Creator/TopherGrace in a [[RatedMForManly hardcore]] action movie. [[spoiler:And that's the least of it.]]
15	* PromotedFanboy: Creator/AdrienBrody claimed he had been "blown away" by ''Film/{{Predator}}'' and viewed his role as a challenge, wanting to bring a complexity to the character that would contrast with Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger's role in the original film.
16	* SavedFromDevelopmentHell: The film's basic plot was conceived in 1994, when Creator/RobertRodriguez was working on ''Film/{{Desperado}}''. He presented a draft of the script to Creator/TwentiethCenturyFox, but they turned it down because the budget required was too large. Fifteen years later, the studio decided to follow through with his script; in the end, an updated version of his script.
17	* StuntCasting: Used quite a bit, but subverted, in that it's not the actor's fame that makes their appearance noteworthy, but their previous body of work.
18	** Noland [[OneSceneWonder steals the show]] in no small part due to Creator/LaurenceFishburne's acting chops, but add in the ''Film/ApocalypseNow'' shout out, and it's a perfect storm of "interesting things in that scene to talk about with other movie buffs".
19	** Creator/TopherGrace is cast so far against type that it's almost shocking to see his face in this movie.
20	** Creator/DannyTrejo is so very ''with'' type it's almost a [[AdamWesting nudge-nudge-wink in-joke]] with the audience -- especially Creator/RobertRodriguez fans.
21	* ThrowItIn: While filming a scene, Nikolai's actor Oleg Taktarov hit his face on a steadicam and began to bleed, but continued filming because the blood added to the effect of the scene.
22	* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
23	** Creator/JoshBrolin, Creator/FreddyRodriguez, and Creator/MiloVentimiglia were considered for Royce.
24	** Creator/JeffFahey was briefly considered for the role of Noland.
25	** Noland was originally supposed to be played by Creator/DannyGlover. However, even if it would have been the perfect way to tie the film to ''Film/Predator2'' as well as ''1'', it is actually unclear whether Glover would've been playing Mike Harrigan or an entirely new character. (It is also unknown whether they would have turned a fan-favorite like Harrigan into a murderous madman like Noland in that case.)
26	** In the DVDCommentary, they state that Isabella was originally planned to die saving Royce. Between her performance and the ending having Royce as "the king of death", they decided not to. It makes Royce's reaction to Isabella's injury from the Berserker more understandable.
27	** Creator/RobertRodriguez intended to have Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger reappear as Dutch in the form of a cameo at the film's end — after defeating the Berserker, Royce and Isabelle sit bloodied and exhausted in the jungle when a Yautja ship lands nearby and a host of Predators emerge. Too tired to fight, the survivors await their fate, but the Predators do not attack. Instead they split into two single-file lines flanking the doorway, and through the gap in the center their leader emerges from the ship, his armor covered in trophies. The leader would then remove his helmet, [[WhamShot revealing it to be Dutch]], who tells Royce, "Not bad, kid...Not bad at all." The scene was dropped due to Schwarzenegger being unavailable, but Rodriguez has mentioned a desire to include the sequence in any potential ''Predators'' sequel.
28	** Rodriguez' original script had the Predators riding motorbikes and drinking alien beer while watching matches in a Colosseum-like arena. There was a substantial role for Dutch, who had been captured and was forced to fight in the arena as a gladiator against Predators and other alien creatures. Due to prohibitive costs and Schwarzenegger's term as governor of California, it was re-written to feature captured soldiers dropped into an alien game reserve, but there would originally have been 200 Predators in the movie. Nimród Antal, a big fan of the franchise, found it preposterous, reasoning that if a single Predator posed a dangerous threat in the previous films, then dealing with hundreds of them would give the human characters no reasonable chance for survival. It was scaled back to three Predators, and another basic idea that was kept throughout included six out of the eight human characters getting killed.

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