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Cinematographer Says There’s a “Van Damme Suit” Easter Egg Hidden Somewhere in ‘The Predator’
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
After pulling in $28 million at the worldwide box office this month, director (and star) Dev Patel’s critically acclaimed action-thriller Monkey Man is now available to watch at home.
You can rent Monkey Man for $19.99 or digitally purchase the film for $24.99!
Monkey Man is currently 88% Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes, with Bloody Disgusting’s head critic Meagan Navarro awarding the film 4.5/5 stars in her review out of SXSW back in March.
Meagan raves, “While the violence onscreen is palpable and painful, it’s not just the exquisite fight choreography and thrilling action set pieces that set Monkey Man apart but also its political consciousness, unique narrative structure, and myth-making scale.”
“While Monkey Man pays tribute to all of the action genre’s greats, from the Indonesian action classics to Korean revenge cinema and even a John Wick joke or two, Dev Patel’s cultural spin and unique narrative structure leave behind all influences in the dust for new terrain,” Meagan’s review continues.
She adds, “Monkey Man presents Dev Patel as a new action hero, a tenacious underdog with a penetrating stare who bites, bludgeons, and stabs his way through bodies to gloriously bloody excess. More excitingly, the film introduces Patel as a strong visionary right out of the gate.”
Inspired by the legend of Hanuman, Monkey Man stars Patel as Kid, an anonymous young man who ekes out a meager living in an underground fight club where, night after night, wearing a gorilla mask, he is beaten bloody by more popular fighters for cash. After years of suppressed rage, Kid discovers a way to infiltrate the enclave of the city’s sinister elite. As his childhood trauma boils over, his mysteriously scarred hands unleash an explosive campaign of retribution to settle the score with the men who took everything from him.
Monkey Man is produced by Jordan Peele’s Monkeypaw Productions.
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