“This is the same character”: the predator first thought of it as another cult of action in the 80’s with Schwarzenegger

It all started in 1987 with the original prey of John Mcsteranan, the rest belonging to this story. Finally, this is what you can think. This actually you know Prey Did you first imagine as another well -known action film that came out two years ago, as well as Arnold Schwarzenegger? They even have a character – or almost!

In PreySpecial forces commanded by the Chief Dutch Schoch, hired by the CIA to survive the survivors of the helicopter crash in the heart of the jungle in Central America. At the scene, the Dutch and his team soon discovered that they were hunting with a mysterious invisible essence that begins to eliminate them one by one. Hunting begins.

This is how humanity – and viewers around the world, intellectual species of extrovert soldiers, collected trophies and collected DNA from other species to create stronger hybrids: prey.

And what began, as the story of the easy survival of the Coriace Group in the 1980s, after the profitable commitment that time was not affected and that it had been going on for more than thirty years. After all, the first film was a tanned success for at least $ 100 million in revenue around the world, and the accumulation of 1.4 million spectators in France, and the saga continues today, especially with Predator: Badlands, which we can find on our screens on November 5, 2025.

At that time, everything was based on this Dutch Shafer (muscular) shoulders Arnold Schwarzenegger -He played a very young Jean-Claude Van Dam, who eventually left the project. But this character we thought of the original is obviously not, by no means.

According to Hollywood legend, Jim and John Thomas brothers, screenwriters PreyInspired by a popular joke at the time: an incredible confrontation between Sylvester Stallone (then rival de Schwarzenegger) and an extrovert. First, Hunter, their script then came in the hands of producer Joel Silver and Vola. At the same time, whatever you may not know is this Prey They thought as another Schwarzenegger film that came out two years ago: Commando.

Born from the Commando?

As the script by Jep Leebes, the author of comic books and series and the script Communand When he started, at the Paris fan festival where he was invited to the original, the original scenario Prey Almost became a Commando 2 in which John Matrix is ​​an alien

As a reminder, Communand Mark Leicester follows Colonel John Matrix, an elite veteran who, after led by many dangerous missions, happy days fled to his daughter Jen, at the age of 12. Which is not in our hero’s plans …

“” “It wasn’t our idea but I thought it was a good idea for it,“Told us JEPH LOEB. “” “The studio won the Predator’s scenario and they were told from the beginning that the best way to do it was to do the Command 2. But this is John Matrix, the hero of Commando. He does the same for the same disguise. (…) I have a predator version on which it is written by Commando 2. “

However, as he explained, at that time, further films were not very profitable. Since then, the idea has been abandoned: “Then someone woke up and said, “No, we’re not going to do it.” The reason why they did not do this was that at the time they followed it, it was generally a sequel that the first film announced. The exceptions were stellar wars. Later, we started getting results that was more successful than the first film, for example Terminator 2. But by that time it wasn’t.»

And that’s another movie, always Arnold SchwarzeneggerBorn.

“” “Then the fox people told us, “We should not take prey and move it to the Command 2, because it will bring only half of the Commando. Why shouldn’t another franchise start?” They no longer needed Arnold Schwarzenegger to make other predatory films, and that’s what they did. So they never made a command 2, but they did many prey! But that doesn’t mean there can be no other command, we’ll see.»

We can still hope!

Predator (1987) is found in a stream on Disney+. Review of Commando (1985), Direction Vod.

Read all our interviews with Jeff Leagues Here. And (re) discover the predator sag’s errors and errors below!