It has been 39 years since the filming of the movie Predator in the Mismaloya jungle.
In the last week of March 1986, more than 200 people arrived in Mismaloya to turn it into the battleground for one of cinema’s most feared aliens:
Predator.
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For three months, the heat was brutal, the rains seemed endless, and the mud reached their knees. But that did not stop the filming crew: amidst branches, rocks, and humidity, they managed to capture the savage power and brutal beauty of the Jalisco mountains.
They say they started every day before sunrise. Arnold #Schwarzenegger and the other actors trained with weights they brought from Los Angeles (yes, they brought them to the jungle), while the technicians hung lights between trees, covered in mud up to their necks. On April 25th, Arnold flew out to get married (yes, right in the middle of filming!), and production continued without him, taking the opportunity to film explosions and action scenes. On May 12th, he was back, ready to get muddy and face the Predator.
Where exactly were they?
In what we now know as Canopy El Edén, right on the banks of the Mismaloya River. That same place that, 20 years earlier, had already put #Vallarta in the spotlight with The Night of the Iguana.
Why there?
Because director John McTiernan wanted a real, pristine jungle that looked like the end of the world… and boy did he find it.
The result: over $100 million at the box office and Puerto Vallarta showing the world that its landscapes are not just for vacations… they are also worthy of legend.
Today, almost 40 years later, if you walk through that jungle, it still seems like something could jump out from between the trees at any moment… maybe not the Predator, but the memory of everything that happened there.
Predator is a 1987 American science fiction action film directed by John McTiernan and written by brothers Jim and John Thomas. Arnold Schwarzenegger stars as Dutch Schaefer, the leader of an elite paramilitary rescue team on a mission to save hostages in guerrilla-held territory in a Central American rainforest, who encounter the deadly Predator (Kevin Peter Hall), a skilled, technologically-advanced extraterrestrial who stalks and hunts them down. Carl Weathers, Elpidia Carrillo, Bill Duke, Richard Chaves, Jesse Ventura, Sonny Landham, and Shane Black are supporting co-stars.
Predator was written in 1984 with the working title of Hunter. Filming ran from March to June 1986 with creature effects devised by Stan Winston and a budget of around $15 million. 20th Century Fox released the film on June 12, 1987, in the United States, and it grossed $98 million worldwide. Initial reviews were mixed, but the film has since been considered a classic of the action and science fiction genres and one of the best films of the 1980s, and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Visual Effects.
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