With his new FX series Mayans M.C due for release next month, Edward James Olmos is doing the press rounds and has officially revealed in a new interview with SlashFilm that his character has been cut from The Predator.
The news of Edward James Olmos cut from The Predator came straight from the man himself. Olmos was said to play a military character, but the actor clarified that he would have played a four-star general, but ultimately his scenes weren’t relevant to the story. “I’m not in the show though,” Olmos said, “It was too long so my character, they had to take me out. They were like half an hour, 3/4 of an hour too long. So I understand why.
News of Olmos’ casting first came out in March of 2017 during principle photography. Olmos would be playing the character of Woodhurt, a General involved in the Stargazer Project. According to Alien vs. Predator Galaxy’s sources, Olmos’ character has been missing since the earliest test screenings from November last year.
Edward James Olmos in costume alongside Boyd Holbrook.
Fortunately, Olmos’ didn’t take the cut to heart, stating that he understood the nature of the business:
“It was gracious of them to call me and tell me, ‘Hey, we really feel bad,’ you know?”
While Woodhurst may not be in the film, he’s a prominent character in the recently released prequel novel The Predator: Hunters and Hunted which involves a plot that revolves around the lack of Woodhurst in the movie and the position we find Sterling K. Brown’s Traeger in.
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As Whiskey says, I hope we at least get to see his deleted stuff on the home video release.
The idea has a lot of potential, Shane Black is an excellent; top-tier writer so, I'm not willing to write this off until I see it.
I think to call Shane BLack on lazy writing is a little bit off
talking about original Predator)
It has levity and humor, but it is not silly.
But they took the silly movie with pussy jokes and a space rasta man and did silly things with it!
One cannot restore, what never existed.
My faith will only be restored when they leave that stupid shit with the kid on the cutting room floor. I'm sure he's going to be as annoying as that tag along Suzie in the Lost World was. So many other things could have been done without having to write in some annoying kid who gets bullied. Bunch of PC garbage being pandered here with that.
Boyd Holbrook and Olmos both played in Narcos but their characters didn't meet though.
Spoiler
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Per current trends, I think it would be more along the lines of Dutch's grand-daughter. Lydia Schaefer.
Lineages are the height of the worst.
The reshoots have only eliminated negative aspects of the movie. While many still remain, it's more along the lines of working it's way up to "decent" now. And it might even make it there. But without all of those changes, I don't think it was going anywhere but down.
True. Even still, its Edward James Olmos! can't he be escorting some trick-or-treaters? Anything! such a waste
The man still got paid. He'll be fine.
DarthWall275
how is that a dick move? They didn't do all this just to cut him on purpose, and also I am sure they paid him. So I don't see where is the Dick move. In editing room when they see all scenes together and they begin polishing the movie they do find some scenes dragging too much, or they being asked to trim off the material to get in time limitations. So I still don't get where you ee a dick move
The General was out long before the friendly Predators.
But hey, it always happens.