The IMDB trivia section is a treasure trove of interesting information (some of it fake, I’m sure) that I’d probably tap into more often if I wasn’t sure most of it would be met with comments like “This is OLD NEWZ, how about some NEW NEWS that happened TODAY, STUPID,” or “I liked this story better when I read it TEN YEARS ago, on YOUR MOM’S PUSSY, YOU LIMP-DICKED SLOTH KISSER.”

Well I’m braving the hate mail and posting this anyway, because it relates to our favorite monkey, Andy Serkis, who’s probably going to get nominated for an Oscar tomorrow. Turns out he almost ruined Predator.

An attempt was made to get shots of the Predator swinging from tree to tree using a monkey in a red special-effects suit. However, the monkey kept removing the suit and the idea was abandoned. [imdb-trivia]

AMAZING! As good as Predator was, imagine how much better it could’ve been if Andy Serkis had been around to play a monkey playing the Predator pretending to be a monkey? Swinging from trees? Hell yeah Andy Serkis can do that. I heard he swung from trees for six months in preparation for Rise of the Planet of the Apes. I hear he still swings from trees three hours a day, every day in the private forest in his mansion, just in case they make a sequel. I hear sometimes he gets so tired that he stops to rest on a log, scratches his butt, then smells his finger and falls off.

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Welcome to another exciting installment of FilmDrunk Comments of the Week, in which I reward your charming vulgarity and hope the people who give us free DVDs never get wise.  This week, I’ve got three copies of the Predator: Ultimate Hunter Edition Blu-Ray for our winners, “An All-New Digital Restoration Of The Film And Retrospective Documentary.”  It hits shelves this Tuesday, and it actually sounds pretty awesome.  Meanwhile, next week’s prize will be the unrated, two-disc Blu-ray edition of Hot Tub Time Machine, so don’t desert me for a handsomer blog before then.  Ha, just kidding, that doesn’t exist.

Now then.  Let’s GET TO DA WINNAAAHS!!  DO EET NOOOOW!  Our first winner is B.K. in the World’s Most Terrifying Rape Van post.  This is my new favorite punch line:

B.K. says: What’s even scarier to me is that the “centerpiece” looks like half of a broken headboard.  STOP STRUGGLING, YOU’LL DAMAGE THE HOBO!

Indeed.  Next winner, Jessica D in the Human Centipede Cat Toy post:

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Here’s a 2007 Suzuki Hayabusa customized to look like Predator by Roderick “Slick Rick” McCullough, which you can currently see rolling around the streets of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.  I’ve been to Myrtle Beach.  It’s a great place if you enjoy restaurants decorated like a goddamned putt putt course.  Anyway I’ve long said that white guys with dreadlocks should be avoided like syringes filled with AIDS, but the jury’s still out on white guys with dreadlocks on their motorcycles.  I’ll have to bring this to committee.

Also, and this is neither here nor there, but it’d be pretty awesome if Rooster and Trish’s Neverending Story Van folded down like a cargo jet in back and a couple Predator bikes spilled out to steal the town’s children like the last Terminator flick.

[SuperStreetBike via UnrealityMag]

A “reboot” (that’s when they make, say, a Terminator movie whose plot ignores all previous Terminator movies) of Predator from Fox would normally sound like an awful idea, but the rumor is Robert Rodriguez is attached.  I’m not a huge Rodriguez fan, but if anyone could bring this project the proper level of ridiculousness, it’s him.

A reliable source dropped us a line revealing to us that Robert Rodriquez and his Troublemaker Studios will be producing the Predator reboot for 20th Century Fox. Now here’ the kicker, the pitch being sent around town implies that the reboot will have more than one predator. “In the reboot a team of commandoes face down a mysterious race of vicious monsters.” [B-D]

Hmm, it took Arnold Schwarzenegger to kill just one Predator, so by my count, to take down an army of them you’d need at least… three Jason Stathams. Come on, make it happen.  “Oi, if it bleeds, Oy kin take me shir’ off, now doesn’ Oy?”

This video was on GorillaMask a few days ago, and I should be flogged and ridiculed for missing it.  It’s a six-minute rap song about Predator, and it’s worth watching every second. 

Puts my 27 Dresses ballad to shame, that’s for sure. 

[Thanks to champion fartist BDarbs for the reminder]