for morning workouts with Schwarzenegger and company, and, after one five-hour workout session that left Davis nearly unable to move, he concluded that he was “not going to survive this entire movie.” Thanks to some fake sleeping antics, though, Davis did in fact survive the shoot. The producer recalls getting knocks on his door at 5:30 a.m. And you’re figuring out how to crash a helicopter and you’re sweating with all these guys.”Īnd sweat they did. “I’m thinking, ‘This is crazy cool! I should do this the rest of my life!’ You hang out with all these people in the jungle all day, and you’re making this movie and you’re doing these cool action scenes. “We’d be in the jungle, and his chef would make like, smoked salmon on toast,” Davis explains. While the jungle was a bit different than the Fox offices Davis had known, things on set were made a little easier thanks to Schwarzenegger, who brought a private chef with him to the jungle every day. Let’s go make this.'”įor the first-time producer, finding himself on the set of “Predator” was an unforgettable experience.
You need to actually produce this movie and come to the jungle with me. And Arnold says, ‘Well, you’re becoming a producer now.
And so I’m the executive on this movie at Fox, and what happened is I became a producer. We were always both trying to figure out how we could work together. I was an executive at the time, and I had been working with Arnold Schwarzenegger. “We got there on Monday, and there was this script.
“The Thomas brothers snuck the script onto the Fox lot and under somebody’s door,” says John Davis, who has produced all seven “Predator” movies. Yet, the mega franchise all started with a piece of paper underneath a door. The film has spawned four sequels, including the new Hulu film “ Prey,” and two spinoffs. Thanks to its memorable performances, quotable dialogue and inventive action set pieces, “ Predator” became an American action movie staple. In 1987, a hyper-advanced alien species known as the “Yautja” descended upon an elite military squad in Guatemala.
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