The originally rejected script by Robert Rodriguez had the Predators riding motorbikes and drinking alien beer while watching matches in a Colosseum-like arena. There was a substantial role for Dutch (Arnold Schwarzenegger) from the first film, who had been captured and was forced to fight in the arena as a gladiator against Predators and other alien creatures. Due to prohibitive costs and Schwarzenegger's term as governor of California, it was re-written to feature captured soldiers dropped into an alien game reserve, but there would originally have been 200 Predators in the movie. Nimród Antal, a big fan of the franchise, found it preposterous, reasoning that if a single Predator posed a dangerous threat in the previous films, then dealing with hundreds of them would give the human characters no reasonable chance for survival. It was scaled back to three Predators, and another basic idea that was kept throughout included six out of the eight human characters getting killed. Rodriguez then offered Schwarzenegger a cameo at the end where Dutch (in full Predator attire) emerges from a ship with several Predators and praises the survivors for winning, but unfortunately Schwarzenegger couldn't commit.
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05-03-2025 alle ore 09:38