Shane Black’s The Predator is now available on DVD, Blu-ray and 4K Ultra HD today, and now that you can watch it at home, we want to make sure you don’t miss a fun little Easter egg that Black put into the film as an homage to, well, the *original* Predator suit.
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.
At the 44 minute, 55 second mark in The Predator (screen-grabbed below), a trick-or-treating kid is wearing that infamous original suit, bright red and looking goofy as can be!
Check out the Easter egg and an original Predator ’87 set photo below, for comparison!
