As the fifth film in the Predator franchise written by Patrick Aison and directed by Dan Trachtenberg is a mere 17 days away from the start of filming (provided there is no legal injunction to stop it), fans have been long since anticipating who will be cast as the film’s star.
Currently known by the title “Skulls”, this new Predator film will reportedly center around a young native American Comanche woman named Kee who lived hundreds of years ago and proves herself a warrior when she encounters an intergalactic hunter – a Predator!
Now according to an exclusive scoop via the website Discussing Film, the film’s star will be no one other than actress Amber Midthunder!
Best known for her roles in the television series “Legion” and “Roswell”, the upcoming film “Skulls” will likely be the most high profile yet for the 24 year old native American actor.
Our community had predicted that Amber Midthunder might have won the role a couple of days ago based on social media activity, so it’s nice to see a report finally confirm it!
Filming for “Skulls” is slated to begin on the 7th of June and finish the 20th of August, so keep your targets set on Alien vs. Predator Galaxy for all the latest Predator 5 news! You can also follow us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube to get the latest on your social media walls. Be sure to join in with fellow Alien and Predator fans on our forums as well!
Special thanks goes out to our community members ace3g and Whos_Nick!
Let's hope!
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Agreed. Time to nip this in the bud all.
Back to Skulls!
I suspect I should be grateful.
It's lurking.
'No chicks, especially native American chicks - just big muscley men.'
I was wondering how long it would take for these shitstains to crawl out. Bit longer than I expected to be honest.
Yeah, I don't subscribe to a blanket statement of there being at least a subconscious social or political agenda on every piece of fiction put on film, something that would require a subscriber of this to manufacture imagery in every 80's & 90's B & C movie horror, monster, fantasy t&a schlock and drivel I've seen to produce some subconscious social or political agenda. Too many movies already have been thrust more meaning upon them than they were designed, where audiences and even sometimes the creators say - yeah, no, that's some crazy interpretation yo. But that's what it is, interpretation versus design. So I don't buy into a blanket subconscious social or political agenda on every piece of fiction put on celluloid. Yes we are a sum of our experiences, but making everything put to pen in this context to me is just putting a square peg in a round hole. It's overthinking to the highest degree.
They do, whether it's intentional or at the forefront or not. Your average 80s actioner, for example, operates under the idea that guns are good and that violence solves everything.
Are they trying to be deep or meaningful about it? Were the filmmakers even conscious about their beliefs dripping into their work? Of course not, in most cases. But the stories we tell and how we tell them are always going to be influenced by how we see and experience the world whether we try or not. It's inevitable.
Male empowerment is just as much a social comment as female empowerment, we've just come to accept it as the standard and everything else is "woke".
Every movie doesn't have a social or political agenda. Some are made solely with the agenda to entertain.
The fact that you asked him/her to not be politically correct about it shows you understood what he/she meant just like I did, thus it being pretty self explanatory.
I want the Pred to beat the crap out of her before she inevitably beats him.
It all depends on how it's handled I think. How well it's written. If the film's script is full of misogynist caricatures with an effort to step on one sex to uplift another, and begins feeling like a shallow lecture to the audience, it will go south fast unfortunately and be rejected by many males and females alike. But if the characters feel real and the story enveloping the Comanche culture and a woman trying to push past any gender roles feels organic and true to its core, I think audiences as a whole will embrace Kee as a protagonist. Hoping for the latter! 🤞
We could have a very good film, or a very bad one, there is just not enough information as of right now to know if it leans towards good or bad.
The premise/setting is different (which I love), that's the one thing we are sure of.
Just say what you really mean without being so PC about it.
You can't go 5 minutes without someone bringing up politics these days.
You can't even watch a movie or play a game without getting preached at.
This? This is peak divisive trash that only serves to push another agenda.
Poor Preds can't get a break. Guess the Xenos can't either.
Though I will attest to her being very easy on the eyes, I don't know enough about the actual actress herself or her acting abilities.. And that's a bad sign, I'm fairly certain she isn't cut out for this kind of role.
Let me live in denial dammit!!
Been meaning to watch it for a while actually, as it's a sequel to '13 Cameras' which I have seen.
Natalie is a good example. Wynonna Ryder and Keanu Reeves are probably good ones too.
Well, I hope this rings true and Amber is fantastic in Skulls!
I agree, very true.
Yeah like Natalie Portman.
Indeed.Never liked Tatum untill I saw him in The Hateful 8.
See to me, in that collection of scenes, everyone acting against Amber is the better actor (over Amber.)
But this is a job well done here by her though:
Either way, she's got a real nice screen presence.
https://youtu.be/PUju5qi6zk4
I've been watching some of Amber's acting and some of it has been cringey, some of it has been pretty decent, so we'll see how she fares in Skulls. I'm just putting my faith in Dan Trachtenberg here. Amber does make some wild facial reactions though.
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AutismSkinsI hear ya. I was considering writing an article on it a couple of days ago but was weary of it being so speculative, catching on perhaps like wildfire, then ultimately being deemed incorrect. So I tried to confirm it with a source but hadn't heard back.
I'm glad if anyone else, Discussing Film breaks wide with this one, because they broke Skulls originally, a year before anyone knew it was a Predator film.
I'm only half joking in regards to the Discussing Film exclusive. I follow them and they do break news which I'm sure does take time and sources. I just wish media were required to provide a timestamp when they started their research/contact sources in regards to casting news. What lead them to contact their sources in regards to a casting scoop? Was it a IG post?
Technically I could have "broken" this news on May 19, 2021, 09:44:34 PM along with a well worded "Exclusive" article.
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