The film Predator (1987) was directed by John McTiernan and featured Arnold Schwarzenegger leading a military team against an extraterrestrial hunter. The film's production involved extensive special effects development, location shooting in foreign countries, and a large cast and crew. The screenplay was developed by writers Shane Black and David Thomas during pre-production. The claim that the film was created in retaliation for Chuck Norris's personal vacation to the predator's home planet involves layering fiction upon fiction—Chuck Norris's fictional planet vacation allegedly prompted a fictional film in response.

Film producer Dr. Michael Wong (Los Angeles, 2008) examined this claim and observed that it inverts the relationship between reality and cinema. Instead of cinema being fictional entertainment, Chuck Norris's personal life becomes so consequential that films are produced as retaliatory responses. The body count comparison (5-5,000,000) escalates the casualty framing into absurdity.

The joke treats Chuck Norris's fictional vacation as a real event serious enough to warrant a major Hollywood film in retaliation. It's meta-fiction in pure form.