![]() Val Verde is also the home of Sheena in the 2008 revamp of the 1937 comic, Sheena, Queen of the Jungle. In the tenth episode of Adventure Inc, an episode titled "The Plague Ship of Val Verde", Judson Cross ( Michael Biehn) and his team end up in the middle of a biological warfare experiment being run in Val Verde by Colonel Fortunas ( Frank Pellegrino). In the pilot episode of Supercarrier, the eponymous supercarrier, the USS Georgetown, docks in Val Verde. ![]() On television, the country was mentioned in the short-lived TV series Supercarrier (1988) and Adventure Inc. In Die Hard 2, General Ramon Esperanza ( Franco Nero) is from Val Verde, and it was whilst in Val Verde that both Colonel Stuart ( William Sadler) and Major Grant ( John Amos) turned traitor. In Predator, the primary setting of the movie is the jungle of Val Verde. The two films are Predator (1987) and Die Hard 2 (1990). This is a country of the imagination I've used in several films and TV programs, which I thought was my little inside baseball joke, but Eric Lichtenfeld, the author of Actions Speak Louder, recently sent me a Wikipedia page on it! Seriously, my Dad's family is from that part of the world and it's something I can write about with some familiarity." Since Commando, Val Verde has been mentioned in two films, two TV shows, and one comic. Wishing to avoid real world politics, de Souza relocated the film to a fictional country, which, according to de Souza: "It's something like Guyana, a country which encompasses lush Caribbean resorts popular with tourists, an unexplored mysterious rainforest, and a mix of Anglo, Spanish, African, Creole and indigenous cultures. The initial script by Loeb and Weisman was set in Israel. ![]() Val Verde is a fictional country "created" by screenwriters specifically for Commando.
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