13 Pieces Of Useless Trivia About Predator
Stan Winston redesigned the Predator's suit after Jean-Claude Van Damme left the set. James Cameron, meanwhile, came up with the idea for the mandibles on his face.
Sonny Landham, who played Billy, had an on-set bodyguard at the behest of the studio. The stated reason was to ensure that Landham didn't get into fights with his co-stars and disrupt production.
The Predator's noises and screeches were voiced by Peter Cullen, best known as the voice of Optimus Prime in Transformers.
Shane Black came up with the dirty jokes his character recites throughout the film. He also wrote the screenplay for The Last Boyscout on the set during his downtime.
Blain's gun, named Old Painless, could only be fired continuously for five seconds before it ran out of blanks.
David Peoples, best know as the screenwriter of Blade Runner and Unforgiven, did a minor rewrite on the screenplay.
Total body-count: 72 -69 humans -1 scorpion -1 Predator
Arnold Schwarzenegger's wedding to Maria Schriver took place during production, and she often called him with details of the wedding during downtime.
The film's concept initially came about as a joke - that the only person Sylvester Stallone / Rocky Balboa would have left to fight is E.T.
Arnold Schwarzenegger recommended Jesse Ventura for the role of Blain. While on set, he and Schwarzenegger held a competition to see who had the biggest arms. Schwarzenegger's were bigger.
Arnold Schwarzenegger claims he improvised the "Stick around!" one-liner on the set.
Despite it working in the film, mud does not camoflauge one's heat signature. It merely reduces it for a short amount of time.
The country in which the film takes place, Val Verde, isn't real. Nevertheless, Commando and Die Hard 2 feature the fictional country.