Predator
Predator is a 1987 American science fiction action horror film directed by John McTiernan and written by brothers Jim and John Thomas. Arnold Schwarzenegger stars as Alan "Dutch" Schaefer, the leader of an elite paramilitary rescue team on a mission to save hostages in a Central American rainforest, who encounters a deadly Predator (Kevin Peter Hall), a skilled and technologically advanced extraterrestrial that stalks and hunts his team down. The film also features Elpidia Carrillo, Carl Weathers, Richard Chaves, Sonny Landham, Bill Duke, Jesse Ventura and Shane Black.
Plot
An extraterrestrial spacecraft deploys a shuttle to Earth. Sometime later, Dutch and his elite paramilitary rescue team—skilled mercenary Mac Eliot, explosives specialist Poncho Ramirez, macho Blain Cooper, expert tracker Billy Sole, and jokester Rick Hawkins—are tasked with rescuing a local cabinet minister whose helicopter was shot down in a Central American jungle. Dutch's Vietnam War ally, Al Dillon, now a CIA agent, accompanies the team to oversee the mission.
More details
| author | Jim Thomas John Thomas Thomas brothers |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | Guatemala |
| director | John McTiernan |
| editor | John F. Link Mark Helfrich |
| genre | action adventure horror science fiction |
| keywords | advanced booby trap central america central intelligence agency cia cia agent cloaking device fall green beret guerrilla soldiers guerrilla warfare injured kill learn mask mud mask predator rescue team soviet soviet union stalk survive trap traumatize united states army special forces vietnam war wash wild boar wound |
| musicBy | Alan Silvestri |
| nomination | Academy Award for Best Visual Effects |
| producer | Joel Silver John Davis Lawrence Gordon |
| productionCompany | 20th Century Fox |
| publisher | 20th Century Fox |
| recordedAt | Mexico Puerto Vallarta |
| theme | military science fiction monster movie science fiction action science fiction horror |