{"id":39188,"date":"2025-06-21T16:59:36","date_gmt":"2025-06-21T20:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=39188"},"modified":"2025-06-21T16:59:36","modified_gmt":"2025-06-21T20:59:36","slug":"39188","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=39188","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Predator&#8221; (1987) directed by John McTiernan; starring Arnold Schwarzenegger \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2025\/z062125zview_predator.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"754\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Predator <\/strong><\/em>(1987)<\/p>\n<p>Director:\u00a0 <strong>John McTiernan<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>Jim Thomas, John Thomas<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Arnold Schwarzenegger, Carl Weathers<\/strong><strong>, Kevin Peter Hall, Elpidia Carrillo, Jesse Ventura, Sonny Landham, Richard Chaves, R.G. Armstrong, Shane Black,<br \/>\nFranco Columbu <\/strong>and <strong>Sven-Ole Thorsen.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline:\u00a0 <em>If it bleeds, we can kill it&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Plot&#8230;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A helicopter carrying a diplomat is shot down in a Central American jungle.\u00a0 The CIA sends in Agent Al Dillon to oversee the rescue mission led by Major &#8220;Dutch&#8221; Schaefer and his team of mercenaries.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Shortly after their drop-off in the jungle, the team finds three skinned corpses strung upside down from a tree.\u00a0 Dutch learns that his team was sent in under false pretenses.\u00a0 Even worse, as the team will soon discover, an alien predator with advanced technology is stalking them.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It wants warrior trophies.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Jean-Claude Van Damme (5&#8217;9&#8243;) was originally cast as the Predator.\u00a0 It was soon decided that JCVD&#8217;s Predator (much shorter than Schwarzenegger and the rest of his squad) was not imposing enough.\u00a0 Kevin Peter Hall (7&#8217;2&#8243;) ended up playing the Predator.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">John McTiernan was chosen to helm<em>\u00a0Predator<\/em> after Ridley Scott, James Cameron, John Milius, John Carpenter, Renny Harlin and others turned it down.\u00a0 McTiernan proved to be the right choice.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kevin Peter Hall can be seen as one of the helicopter pilots at the end of the film.\u00a0 John McTiernan gave him the role as a reward for his performance in the Predator suit.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Shane Black, the actor who plays one of the rescue squad soldiers is better known as the screenwriter for <em>Lethal Weapon<\/em> and other films.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Both Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jesse Ventura would go on to become state governors in real life.<\/p>\n<p>Predator is a classic.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: inherit; color: initial;\"><em><strong>Predator (1987) <\/strong><\/em>rates 5 of 5 stars<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_a.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2025\/z062125zview_predator2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"322\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Predator (1987) Director:\u00a0 John McTiernan Screenplay: Jim Thomas, John Thomas Stars: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Carl Weathers, Kevin Peter Hall, Elpidia Carrillo,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,53,54,65,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-horror","category-movies","category-trivia","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39188"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39192,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39188\/revisions\/39192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}