Original PREDATOR Suit With JCVD

It’s fairly well known at this point that Jean-Claude Van Damme was the original guy in the original alien suit for PREDATOR. If you didn’t know, now you do! A lot of footage was shot with JCVD in the outfit (all in red to be keyed out for invisibility mode later) but perhaps not a lot is known about the story of how the design originally came to be, why it was abandoned, and how the now iconic Predator visage was born.

Well fear not! Here’s a great video from Stan Winston School of Matt Winston interviewing F/X wunderkind Steve Johnson about the whole debacle and how changes on the fly led to a beloved modern movie monster.