{"id":12394,"date":"2015-04-09T05:30:18","date_gmt":"2015-04-09T09:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=12394"},"modified":"2015-04-05T12:14:42","modified_gmt":"2015-04-05T16:14:42","slug":"15-things-you-probably-didnt-know-about-predator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=12394","title":{"rendered":"15 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About “Predator”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sean Hutchinson<\/strong> at Mental_Floss<\/a><\/strong> is back with 15 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Predator<\/strong><\/a>.   Here are three of my favorites…<\/p>\n

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2. THE PITCH FOR THE MOVIE NAME-DROPPED SOME RECOGNIZABLE MOVIE HITS.<\/strong>
\nThe screenwriters pitched Predator<\/em> to studios as \u201cRocky<\/em> meets Alien<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n

4. SHANE BLACK WAS CAST FOR HIS SCRIPT EXPERTISE, NOT HIS ACTING CHOPS.<\/strong>
\nBlack, who plays Hawkins, had previously written the screenplay for Lethal Weapon<\/em>; he was covertly cast in the film so that he would be available to make on-the-fly and uncredited script changes while on set. Most famously, Black would later write and direct Iron Man 3<\/em>.<\/p>\n

6. THE LOOK OF THE COMMANDOS WAS BASED ON THE SGT. ROCK <\/em>COMICS.<\/strong>
\nHawkins can be seen reading a Sgt. Rock<\/em> comic in the end credits.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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