One of the biggest “what ifs” in cinema history is that Jean-Claude Van Damme *almost* played the titular monster in 1987’s Predator, which originally looked WAY different. “It looked like a guy in a lizard suit with the head of a duck,” Arnold Schwarzenegger once described the original version of the Predator, which had a dog-like head and backward-bent, reptilian legs. The costume, which was briefly worn by Van Damme on set, was a total disaster, and production had to be halted while the creature was completely redesigned by Stan Winston.
On set, Van Damme wore a red version of that original suit for the “cloaking” sequences, and The Predator cinematographer Larry Fong says that red suit is referenced in The Predator!
Over on Twitter, Fong just teased that there’s an Easter egg related to that original costume in Shane Black’s new movie, and thus far, it seems that nobody has spotted it. We reached out to Fong for a hint and he wouldn’t even give us one, telling us that it’d spoil the fun and he’d rather fans find it for themselves. Now that’s serious commitment to the Easter egg game.
Did you spot the red Van Damme suit in The Predator? Let us know!
We’re assuming it’s during the trick or treating scene…
Anyone knows what this has to do with the original Predator? … and what the related Easter egg is in the new @predatormovie? pic.twitter.com/D9f1D065ze
— Larry Fong (@larryfong) September 16, 2018