Predator producer John Davis recalls working on the Arnold Schwarzenegger actioner: 'It was neat. It was wonderful. It was glamorous. It was everything Hollywood was supposed to be.”
. He was a really good friend of mine. We were always both trying to figure out how we could work together. And so I’m the executive on this movie at Fox, and what happened is I became a producer. I auditioned to become a producer. And Arnold says, ‘Well, you’re becoming a producer now. You need to actually produce this movie and come to the jungle with me. Let’s go make this.'”
And sweat they did. The producer recalls getting knocks on his door at 5:30 a.m. for morning workouts with Schwarzenegger and company, and, after one five-hour workout session that left Davis nearly unable to move, he concluded that he was “not going to survive this entire movie.” Thanks to some fake sleeping antics, though, Davis did in fact survive the shoot. Still, 35 years later, Davis recalls the difficulty getting the movie to the big screen.
“[McTiernan] never read any actors. His process was, ‘I can tell in a conversation,'” Davis explains. “That conversation would enlighten him to whether or not the actor was right for the movie. And at the end of the day, we had two governors in the movie.” “The Thomas brothers wrote that also, and Stephen Hopkins directed it. It was a really wonderful script,” Davis explains. “Arnold was gonna play [the lead] role. The studio was negotiating with him, and the whole deal fell apart over $250,000. And it was obvious: Joe Roth, who was the head of the studio at the time, just said, ‘I won’t go past this number’ and Arnold wanted this other number.”
With “Prey,” Trachtenberg takes the Predator to 1700s America. The film, which features Native American and First Nation talent in front of and behind the camera, follows a young Comanche woman as she takes on the alien with tomahawks, traps and ingenuity.
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