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• The skull of a creature that resembles the ones in Alien (1979) and Aliens (1986) is on the wall in the Predator's trophy room.
  
  
• Bill Paxton previously starred in Aliens (1986).
  
  
• Putting the Alien skull on the trophy case on the Predator ship was the idea of Stan Winston' as a way of showing off all the different species and creatures that the Predators have hunted and killed. Since Fox had owned the Alien franchise, it was easy to obtain the rights to use the Alien head in the film.
  
  
• Rubén Blades was giving a live TV interview to "Good Morning America" (1975) from the set of this movie. During the interview, director Stephen Hopkins walked on camera and ordered Blades back to work very loudly. The incident was so embarrassing, Blades and Hopkins did another interview days later to apologize.
  
  
• This was the first film to be given the newly instituted NC-17 rating in the US for its graphic violence before it was re-cut to its final theatrical length.
  
  
• The film was re-cut over 20 times, according to director Stephen Hopkins, because of more graphic shots of mutilated bodies and decapitations by the Predator.
  
  
• The scenes where the Predator attacks the subway were shot on a massive soundstage at Fox. The scenes where the train is actually moving was shot in Oakland, California, with actual subway trains running.
  
  
• The gunfight in East LA was shot in three long days with the exception of the interiors of the building which was shot on the Fox lot.
  
  
• With more time than the original Predator (1987), Stan Winston, Stephen Hopkins and Lawrence G. Paull came up with ideas and designs with more exotic weapons (the retractable spear, the detachable pincers, the Frisbee blade, the net, etc.) for the Predator to use to differentiate this film from the previous one.
  
  
• At one point Arnold Schwarzenegger was going to co-star in the film, but chose to do Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) instead.
  
  
• The slaughterhouse sequence took about four days to shoot and was extremely difficult, according to director Stephen Hopkins, due to the amount of water used and the lighting of the sequence.
  
  
• For the sequence where King Willy meets his demise at the hands of the predator in the alley, wind and water fans were used to simulate the predator walking on water before it is finally seen during one quick shot as its image is reflected on the water.
  
  
• When the Predator gets shot in the slaughterhouse sequence by Danny Glover, Kevin Peter Hall had blood packets filled with the luminescent fluid from a "glow stick" mixed with K-Y jelly attached to his body to create the glowing, green blood.
  
  
• The following scenes were deleted from the final cut of the film: A subplot involving Maria Conchita Alonso's character pregnancy. The chase sequence where Danny Glover tracks the Predator all the way to the slaughterhouse distract was extensively longer. Gore and mutilations in all the murders the Predator had done including Bill Paxton's in the tunnel.
  
  
• The original storyline of the film was to have taken place in New York City, but writers Jim Thomas and John Thomas quickly changed it to Los Angeles because of budget concerns. The scene where the Predator raises the skull during the lighting storm was to have taken place atop the Chrysler Building.
  
  
• At one point, Patrick Swayze was approached to star in the film but was unable because he was injured during the filming of Road House (1989).
  
  
• Kevin Peter Hall had studied African tribal dances in order to get into the feel and flexibility of the Predator and to give him a personality.
  
  
• Respirators were required during the slaughterhouse sequence due to the debris and chemicals that had filled up inside the set.
  
  
• The Predator's sounds consist of pre-recorded animal sounds from cats, tigers, lions, bears, etc.
  
  
• During the finale when the elder Predator hands Danny Glover the gun dating from 1715, writers Jim Thomas and John Thomas had conceived an idea for a possible Predator movie which would take place in a time where was no modern weapons available to combat them, much like the finale of the original Predator (1987).
  
  
• According to writers Jim Thomas and John Thomas, a Predator sequel had not been planned and they had to wait to see how successful the Predator comic book series would be. After the series was a hit, producer Joel Silver was finally able to convince Fox to make the sequel, which was immediately greenlit.
  
  
• The Jamaican voodoo posse gangs seen in the film were based on actual gangs that were terrorizing New York City and Kansas City at one point in the mid- to late-1980s.
  
  
• Bill Paxton has been killed or assaulted in some way by an Alien (From Aliens (1986)) a Predator and a Terminator.
  
  
• The spear weapon that was used in the film disappeared and was reported as stolen after filming was completed.
  
  
• The plot underwent a few changes in its earliest stages. Gary Busey's character, Keyes, was actually intended to be Dutch, Arnold Schwarzenegger's character from the first film. Schwarzenegger was very outspoken against the sequel's concept, feeling that taking it into the city was a bad idea, and declined the role.
  
  
• The last name of the character "Danny" (Rubén Blades) is "Archuleta". J. Tom Archuleta was the second assistant director of both this movie and Predator (1987).
  
  
• When the Predator is treating his injuries in the bathroom of the apartment, Alex Trebek, the host of "Jeopardy!" (1984), can be heard giving the final jeopardy "answer": "Berengaria, who never set foot in England, was its queen for eight years after marrying this king on Cyprus?" The "question", in case you're interested, is, "Who is Richard I?"
  
  
• John McTiernan was offered the chance to direct but turned it down to work on The Hunt for Red October (1990).
  
  
• Elpidia Carrillo, who played Anna in the first Predator film, has her name listed in the sequel's credits yet doesn't seem to appear in the actual film. Look carefully during the scene inside Peter Keyes' mobile headquarters and you will spot her. When Keyes (Gary Busey) describes how the creature activated a self-destruct device in the first film, you can briefly spot Anna on one of the video screens. Carrillo filmed a debriefing scene in which she talks to the camera and describes the events of the first film, but it was cut from the sequel.
  
  
• Voodoo is not actually practiced in Jamaica but in Haiti. The Jamaican religion similar to voodoo is called obeah.
  
  
• Sister Souljah's first single and video, 1991's "The Final Solution: Slavery's Back in Effect," samples the dialog from the first scene liberally.
  
  
• The writing on gun the Predator gives Harrigan says "Raphael Adolini 1715". A later Dark Horse comic tells the story of this character, making him a Pirate who disappeared along with his crew in the Bermuda Triangle in 1718. This was also the subject of a potential sequel script written in the mid-90s.
  
  
• In the original Predator (1987), when the camera pans to the Predator's HUD view, human voices are audible as high-pitched. In Predator 2, human voices are audible as low-pitched.
  
  

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