Did you know Van Damn was supposed to be the predator?!

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watched Van Damn documentary (yeah.. lol) on E!.

some interesting facts.

He worked with Chuck norris.
He was predator and actually they started filming, but he did a poor job on purpose, so he is fit/well enough to work on bloodsport.

I missed the first part, so I dont know what real Martial arts training he had.

supposedly he was a teacher at some point.. :D
 

MmmSkyscraper

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WTF, on the DVD extras it shows the tests they did for a "monster"/alien that didn't work out. Then they got Stan Winston in IIRC and the awesome Predator was created. Wasn't one mention of Van Damme :confused:
 

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Originally posted by: MmmSkyscraper
WTF, on the DVD extras it shows the tests they did for a "monster"/alien that didn't work out. Then they got Stan Winston in IIRC and the awesome Predator was created. Wasn't one mention of Van Damme :confused:

On E!, they showed few pics of Van Damn getting into predator custume and makeup. But he signed up be the main character for Bloodsport and he purposely fell/didnt act to get fired from that to work on bloodsport.

Info on bottom

another..
 

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Learn something new every day... I guess they figured there wasn't much point mentioning JC VD's contribution :D
 

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I was pretty sure he had no real martial arts training before filming. He was just a good looking gymnast.
 

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Originally posted by: MmmSkyscraper
WTF, on the DVD extras it shows the tests they did for a "monster"/alien that didn't work out. Then they got Stan Winston in IIRC and the awesome Predator was created. Wasn't one mention of Van Damme :confused:

I watched it too and don't remember him being mentioned earlier.

The first predator costume sure did suck though :laugh: