


New Zealand director Geoff Murphy was also considered to be director at one point. Producers Joel Silver and Lawrence Gordon first approached Arnold Schwarzenegger with the lead role. Silver brought on Lawrence Gordon as co-producer and hired John McTiernan as the director which was going to be his first studio film. It found its way to 20th Century Fox in 1985 and gave it to producer Joel Silver who Fox thought was the right person to turn the screenplay into a big budget film.

Screenwriters Jim and John Thomas got to work and wrote a screenplay originally titled Hunter. Unknown to the team of commandos, someone or something is following them in the jungle… Pre-ProductionĪfter the release of Rocky IV in 1985, a joke was making the rounds saying that Rocky would have to fight an alien in the next entry in the series. They soon discover the enemy camp and destroy the guerrilla fighters. After been dropped off by helicopters in the jungle, Dutch makes some discoveries along the way which suggest that they were misled by their government as to why they are here in the jungle. Kevin Peter Hall as both The Predator and a helicopter pilotĭutch Schaefer (played by Arnold Schwarzenegger) and a team of commandos are recruited by the CIA to rescue some hostages who are help by guerrilla fighters in a South American country.Armstrong as Major General Homer Phillips Richard Chaves as Jorge “Poncho” Ramirez.Arnold Schwarzenegger as Major Alan “Dutch” Schaefer.Tagline: Nothing like it has ever been on Earth before.
