History Trivia / Predators

* CastTheExpert: A particularly cool example. Louis Ozawa-Changchien 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.

* TheWikiRule: [[http://avp.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page Xenopedia]] has information on ''Franchise/{{Alien}}'', ''Franchise/{{Predator}}'', and ''Franchise/AlienVsPredator''.

* 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 arrival. In real life, Creator/MahershalaAli is a Muslim himself.
* BTeamSequel: Music/AlanSilvestri was asked to write this score, but could not, due to scheduling conflicts with ''Film/TheATeam''.
* 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.
* CastTheExpert: A particularly cool example. Louis Ozawa-Changchien has been practicing kendo since he was 5 and did his own stunts for Hanzo's fight with the Falconer Predator, but the crew didn't know this when he was cast. He brought his kendo teacher (who he considers a second father) on to help choreograph the scene.

* ExecutiveVeto: The original plan was to alter the Creator/TwentiethCenturyFox logo, turning it into heat vision (as seen from the Predators' viewpoint) halfway through the fanfare. The studio nixed that particular idea.
* FakeNationality: The Mexican, and African actors match their character's ethnicity, but are American, and the Israeli is Brazilian.

** Creator/AdrienBrody, known for playing nice, physically nonthreatening guys, plays Royce, the ripped badass loner. 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 this build rather than the bulging beach muscles of Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger.

* 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.

** 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."

** Creator/DannyTrejo is so very ''with'' type it's almost a [[AdamWesting nudge-nudge-wink in-joke]] with the audience--especially Creator/RobertRodriguez fans.
* ThrowItIn: While filming a scene, Nikolai's actor Oleg Taktarov hit his face on a steadicam and was bleeding, but continued filming because the blood added to the effect of the scene.

** Creator/JoshBrolin, Creator/FreddyRodriguez and Creator/MiloVentimiglia were considered for Royce.

** 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 Nolan in that case.)
** In the DVDCommentary they state that Isabella was originally planned to die saving Royce. Between her performance and the ending being Royce as "the king of death" they decided not to. Makes Royce's reaction to Isabella's injury from the Berserker more understandable.
** Creator/RobertRodriguez intended to have Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger reappear as Dutch in the form of a cameo at the film's end — after defeating 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.