The Predator Nearly Had An Unbelievable Twist
No one was a fan of The Predator, the 2018 reboot (directed by Shane Black) of the 1987 classic and its sequels. Special effects artist Yuri Everson, who worked on the movie, posted screenshots from two deleted scenes to his Instagram, and they reveal quite a twist. Mind, it’s no great loss — this twist would not have made the movie better. In fact, in the eyes of some, it would have made it worse. According to Everson, the director shot three endings. One made it into the film; the other two would have been somewhat controversial. In Scrapped Ending #1, the surviving crew encounter a spacecraft pod. Ripping it open, they find an astronaut in stasis…with the nametag Ellen Ripley. Though it’s pretty much canon that the Alien and Predator films take place in the same universe, heroes from one series have never crossed over into the other so blatantly. Everson says Sigourney Weaver was not involved in the production and someone else played Ripley in the scene. So