I think it would be fair to say that it is well known that the leaked draft of The Predator that was making the rounds last year featured an ending in which Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Dutch appeared to recruit the surviving characters to his cause. It’s also pretty well known Arnold turned down the role but honestly, how many of us were still expecting him to climb out of that pod at the end of The Predator?
It’s starting to look like the Predator Killer suit was not always the occupant of Pod 03. That’s not to say it would have been Dutch, as the props below look purposefully designed to obscure the face, but from the comments the artists are making, this was from an alternate ending to The Predator!
Jon K. Miller and Sara Villarreal both shared some really cool photos of an interesting prop that we never saw in the finished film.
According to the captions from both Jon and Sara, the resemblance to an Alien facehugger was quite deliberate. You can even see a Weyland-Yutani logo on there!
The prop is actually based on designs by Fausto De Martini who previously shared his designs for both this breathing mask and the pod seen at the end of the film. In the concept art, the pod also has Weyland-Yutani markings but they were removed for the finished film (though it still retains the text Pod 03 in English).
On the comments on Instagram, Fausto revealed that the Weyland-Yutani logo was actually requested from management, nor was this originally supposed to be a Predator pod. It’s unknown if the scene was actually filmed or if it was dropped before filming but the question remains! Who was envisioned to be the occupant of this pod?
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Update 05/12/2018 – ADI’s Alec Gillis also shared a short clip of the prop with some additional commentary.
