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Rambo John J

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"John McTiernan’s Predator, apart from being a sci-fi masterpiece, boasts arguably the beefiest cast of all time. So much so that Sonny Landham, a rather large and intimidating man himself, is dwarfed by some of his co-stars.

Landham actually had a bodyguard on set, but it wasn’t to fend off the other alpha males on set, it was to protect the rest of the cast from him.


It turns out that the man who brought Billy Sole to the silver screen was a bit of a mad bastard.

Sonny Landham had a curious penchant for getting into trouble. By all accounts he was quick to temper and could drop gloves at any moment. He was no small man either, so it’s easy to assume that, if sufficiently enraged, he could hold his own against anyone, even Apollo Fucking Creed.

So notorious were Landham’s tendencies towards violence that the insurance company for the film appointed him a giant bodyguard to keep him under control. The director, John McTiernan, would go into detail about this in a behind the scenes documentary.

“We had this 6’8″ tall giant who just had to follow Sonny around 24 hours a day the entire time he worked on the movie and make sure that Sonny never misbehaved,” recalled McTiernan.

The cast of Predator is a who’s who of Hollywood hard men. There are the former athletes that looked the part in Carl Weathers and Arnold Schwarzenegger, and sprinkled in amongst those were a former marine, Richard Chaves, and a former Navy Seal, Jesse Ventura.

It’s hard to imagine anybody posing a threat to such a cadre of hard nuts, but, to quote the great Billy Sole himself, Sonny Landham “ain’t afraid of no man.”

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CasketCaseZombie

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Forgive me for I have sinned. It has been years since my last viewing. Just popped this bitch in the player and about to get my nostalgia on.
Hell, I might watch Robocop tomorrow night, the joys of being home alone.