‘Prey’s Predator is Feral, Ferocious, & Primal According to Director
The Predator franchise is back with Prey this Friday – and the alien hunter is different from any we’ve seen before.
The movie is set 300 years ago as a prequel to the current run of movies – to the first time a Predator visited Earth. Amber Midthunder (Legion) stars as a Comanche warrior that becomes the universe’s ultimate hunter’s intended prey. But he’s never come up against a fighter like this. This battle is far from one-sided.
There is mud. Because there has to be mud – this is a Predator movie.
The Predator in Prey
In an interview with Polygon, director Dan Trachtenberg revealed how this Predator will be different.
“It was exciting to tell a story that’s set 300 years in the past, but it was challenging to develop a creature that would feel at once older, but also far more advanced. I wanted it to feel much more like an alien creature than ever before, much more feral, ferocious, primal, and be less armored. So then all the technological advances needed to be through its arsenal, through its weaponry.
“I think we struck the right balance. And then we had a team of incredible visual effects artists that helped augment the suit, so that in key moments, it could always feel like a living, breathing thing. So that it never felt like it was limited by movie physics, you know that it can always feel the way it should feel like as an alien creature.”
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Predator has been a hit-or-miss franchise since it first came to the screen. I’m hoping for something good this time around. The last couple of sequels were just flat-out bad. The franchise has relied a lot on high-tech military-esque equipment for decades. This is a fresh look at what the Prey vs Predator battle can be, something fresh and new.
We’ll see if they succeeded this weekend.
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Prey Details
The cast includes Amber Midthunder as Naru and Dane DiLiegro (based on his size, he’s the Predator), as well as Dakota Beavers, Stefany Mathias, and Stormee Kipp. A Comanche language track will be available for this movie, which is a cinematic first.
The origin story of the Predator in the world of the Comanche Nation 300 years ago. Naru, a skilled female warrior, fights to protect her tribe against one of the first highly-evolved Predators to land on Earth.
Prey premieres on Hulu on August 5th.
