Back in the mid-80's, a friend and I tried to get into a movie that was sold out, so instead we went to a different movie: "Predator." I went in knowing nothing about the film. We came in perhaps 10 minutes after the movie started. It turned out to be a bad war movie that turned into a pretty darn good monster movie. I didn't realize until years after watching "Predator" for the first time that one of the mercs who went into the jungle was played by Shane Black -- whom I had been in the UCLA Comedy Club with just a few years before. (I probably should have realized it when he was shown in the closing credits reading a Sgt. Rock comic book -- with the words "Shane Black" next to him.)
Now, Robert Rodriguez is remaking "Predator" with Adrien Brody in the Arnold Schwarzenegger role. (???) No word on whether he'll adopt a thick accent. Or whether he -- like Schwarzenegger and Jesse Ventura, from the earlier movie -- will become a governor. (And who will read the comic book this time?)
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