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While moviegoers argue that would "Alien" proud "Prometheus", another favorite childhood monster, "Predator," a few weeks ago, quietly celebrated anniversary. It is terrible to say, but the hunter from space with us for a quarter century. In this connection, we offer you a selection of amazing facts and fiction, devoted to this fascinating, collector of skulls.





The role of the Predator had to play by Jean-Claude Van Damme

TRUE. In 1987, the year the Belgian stunt has not yet managed to become famous in Hollywood, but require special treatment. On the set of "Predator" future star, for example, angered that her full name not fall into the captions. As a result, new to the movie scandal, got into a fight with another stuntman, and on the third day of filming took off from the project. Replacing the 220-centimeter black basketball player Kevin Hall picture went only benefit. Unlike Van Damme (177 cm) that looked at the background Schwarzenegger (188 cm), a giant. With the change stuntman changed and the concept of the film. Monster Van Damme had to be flexible and agile as a cat. Hall turned the character into a real Terminator from space.



Schwarzenegger - is not the only actor from the "Predator", has made a political career

TRUE. Jesse Ventura, who played one of the commandos in the squad Dutchman, from 1999 to 2003 served as governor of Minnesota. A former wrestler, famous under the nickname "The Body", won the election with a witty slogan "My governor beat your Governor." Because of the absurd policy statements actor soon ceased to be called "Body" and dubbed the "mind". TV host Stephen Colbert once joked: "First, policymakers became veterans of the Second World War, then - the war in Korea. The next generation of governors out of the crew "Predator."



Schwarzenegger scored for the role of more than ten kilograms of pure muscle

NOT TRUE. In contrast, the "Austrian Oak" even had to lose a few kilos to look more vulnerable and that you and humanity against the backdrop of the opponent's space. Ten kilos Schwartz lost during filming. The hotel where the group stopped, not working water purification system, so that poisoned everything at once. Actors joked that in the scenes where the predator guts of their heroes, they did not even have anything to portray - the poor man suffered stomach for weeks.



Predators older dinosaurs

TRUE. When the hero Danny Glover at the end of "Predator 2" gets on board a starship, including trophies space hunters found the skull of a dinosaur. If you look closely, the shelf space of collectors can be seen and the head of the Alien - it's a joke Stan Winston, to do special effects for both kinofranshiz. By the way, the scene where the leader gives the Raptors Los Angeles Police silicon gun the American War of Independence - a lead for the third part, which did not come out. Its action was to take place in the Wild West.



Predators do not hesitate to cooperate with people

TRUE. In the movie "Alien vs. Predator" Predators use people for the ritual of initiation into warriors. Young hunters have long fly to Earth to fight the guinea Strange, whose body Breeding kindly supplied pagan nations. In the film, one of the Raptors, he realized that he was close to the failure of the exam, takes care of the girl scientist. Together they destroy the Alien Queen, but she manages to fertilize warrior. The result is a Predalien - a hybrid is so dangerous that its destruction had to drop a bomb on a small American town.

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