Arnold Fest 2009! Predator Trivia!

• Arnold turned down an offer to do a Predator sequel because he didn’t like the script. He decided to do Terminator 2: Judgment Day instead.
• Arnold once stated, “I took more abuse in Predator (1987) than I did in Conan the Barbarian (1982). I fell down that waterfall [40 feet] and swam in this ice-cold water for days and for weeks was covered in mud. It was freezing in the Mexican jungle. They had these heat lamps on all the time, but they were no good. If you stayed in front of the lamps, the mud dried. Then, you had to take it off and put new mud on again. It was a no-win situation. The location was tough. Never on flat ground. Always on a hill. We stood all day long on a hill, one leg down, one leg up. It was terrible.”

• An attempt was made to get shots of the Predator swinging from tree to tree using a monkey in a red special-effects suit. However, the monkey kept removing the suit and the idea was abandoned.
• The black helicopter pilot seen at the end of the movie is Kevin Peter Hall, the actor who plays the Predator.
• The predator’s blood – a goopy substance with the color of Mountain Dew – was made on-set using a mixture of the liquid from inside glow sticks, and KY jelly.
• The body count in the movie Predator? 64!

You can find a ton more information on Predator at http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093773/trivia

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