General "Did you Know?"s

[gamemaster1991]

During early production of the 1987 flim 'Predator', Jean-Claude Van Damme was casted as the eponymous Predator. Aditionally, around the time said predator had the desing of a giant insect like creature with a rat like head, golden eyes and big claws, but the overall look of the original design was felt to be both far from scary and not really practical to film in the jungle, so it was completely redesigned by Stan Winston and the actor was recast by replacing him with Kevin Peter Hall.

Sources:


http://forums.sciflicks.com/showthread.php?t=16768

https://deadlymovies.wordpress.com/category/jean-claude-van-damme/

http://www.movie-moron.com/?p=12829

http://www.movie-moron.com/forum/index.php?topic=1605.0

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000241/bio

My favorite part of all of this is that James Cameron supposedly helped redesign it by making a comment of adding the iconic mandibles when Stan Winston was on a plane ride with him. This means that James Cameron helped with two of the biggest alien franchises in the form of the Predator and Aliens.