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TIL, after Rocky IV’s release, a joke was making rounds that since Rocky had run out of opponents, he would have to fight an alien in the fifth installment. Screenwriters Jim and John Thomas took the joke seriously and wrote a screenplay based on the joke which became the movie Predator.

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