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BILL DUKE details JEAN CLAUDE VAN DAMME getting fired on PREDATOR for passing out from Dehydration


https://youtu.be/iZ67423rlpI

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It's insane how the stories vary in why he got fired. The below article contains a quote at the end from John McTiernan that will make you think.

https://popcultmaster.com/2017/10/30/hunter/

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Just found out they originally wanted Harrison Ford for the lead 🤯

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By the time that filming began, Ford had just finished starring in a jungle film: The Mosquito Coast.

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Oh! The irony. I always said that Bruce Willis would have been perfect if they made Predator 3 in the mid to late 1990's. Why they ever considered Steven Seagal for Predator 2 is beyond me!? 🤷

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I don't understand this quote from Geoff Murphy when Fox announced that Joel Silver was hired to work as a producer.

"He had made several successful action films, was a testosterone producer, and was Jewish".

Why would his ethnicity have any bearing to the conversation? Is it because the Jewish community have a long and storied history in American cinema? Or was it because "oh, he's Jewish!?...of course he's gonna make us a lot of money!" 😁

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I've never understood why commandos need huge bodybuilder muscles.

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Cuz they fag

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I've suspected something like that...

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The handlebar moustache should have sealed it for ya

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pretty sure they dont in real life ,
they need extreme endurance & stamina , which probably precludes bodybuilder types

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Yeah! That was the argument they used for "Predators" when they decided to cast Adrien Brody as opposed to someone like The Rock or Vin Diesel.

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You're bang on. I served 11 years in the Royal Marines. Nobody there built like Arnie. No use being able to bench a truck if you can't pull yourself and your kit up and over a wall soaking wet/covered in crap, or keep going literally until someone says stop.

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