Today is Disney+ Day! And Disney has used the event to announce that Dan Trachtenberg’s upcoming Predator film – aka the Predator film formerly known as Skulls – is now titled Prey! The details still remain largely under a veil of secrecy, but we now have a synopsis released through the announcement thanks to Deadline.
Today, we learned the plot line with the pic set in the world of the Comanche Nation 300 years ago, following Naru, a skilled female warrior who fiercely protects her tribe against a highly evolved alien predator.
We now know that Prey is set around 1700, and the main character is named Naru, rather than Kee as she was known in the earlier leaks. This news also comes with the first official confirmation that Naru will be played by Amber Midthunder.
Variety’s coverage of the announcement states that Prey will be released summer of 2022 via Hulu – as previously suggested by Marc Toberoff, the Thomas Brothers lawyer for the on-going copyright lawsuit – in the United States, with the film going to Star for its international release.
We should also be seeing our first official still and logo from the film later today, so make sure to keep checking back in! Thanks to whos_nick for the heads up!
Alien vs. Predator Galaxy also recently had the chance to talk to Amalgamated Dynamic Inc’s Tom Woodruff, who discussed a little about ADI’s experience working on Prey, telling us that “it was such a great cohabitation” working alongside the film’s visual effects team.
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With no likely theatrical release, I wouldn't expect a delay....
....unless there's.....
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Wasn't there a fan film called AKUMA that was going to be a Predator film set in that time period? I think the director for Dark Ages was also going to help out. Nothing much has been said so far
Speaking of the game, I really wished there was a special crossover event, I mean why doesn't want to see these two have a go at it?
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So yeah, I can empathize with the feeling. However, with interesting setting and everything could still suck with the wrong execution. But it seems to me that we have already seen everything about the Predator hunting humans in the modern age, so I fantasized about the past or future.
Yeeeep. That's the point. Nothing to do with gender, just the attitude put into it.
Yeah, I wasn't trying to imply it was shit because it had women in it, just that it struck me as one of those incredibly cynical feminist remakes where they just went "I know! Let's take a successful film that starred men... but replace them with women!" and that was the full extent of the effort put into it.
Even though I loved two of the actresses in the film "Bridesmaids", Ghostbusters 2016 was just a painful experience for me. Too much ad libbing in what felt like a constant unfunny effort to out do each other with their wit. But I think it's wrong to attribute the poor quality of that film to females starring. An all-male cast could have been easily substituted in that production and I believe it would have been equally as bad the way that entire movie was constructed. But regardless, I think what is important here is to form an opinion after actually seeing the film. I would say everyone should afford that opportunity with "Prey".
The historical setting is what has me most interested, because that's something I've wanted them to do for ages.
Iam OK with 2016 Ghostbusters. At least with Slovak dubbing. Never saw it in English language.
Don't get me wrong, I'm absolutely in the cautious camp with this, but I'm not sure that's a fair comparison, because even if you take out the female lead it seems like they're trying to do something a bit different with this movie.
Edit: The world is such a crazy place, and I want someone to get me down from here.
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It's basically a feminized inversion of the over-the-top machismo of the first film.
As i've said before, i watch Films to be entertained, not preached to.
What I'm trying to say is that "Prey" IMO is much more related to the whole hunting theme (which is what Predator is about, at its core) and better at conveying what the film is gonna be about
They might not show their hand if there's more than one Predator. Remember Stephen Hopkins kept denying to the press that there was multiple Predators in "Predator 2", and we all know how that turned out.
Maybe it's lost in translation. But checking all the boxes basically means (let's use a cooking analogy) that it has the right ingredients. But it still takes a chef to prepare it adequately.
Well, it's not a direct quote but you guessed right - I was thinking about you while writing it. And I don't see much of a difference between "checking the right boxes" and "seemingly doing everything right". Do you ?
Anyway, not trying to take away from your excitement. But I'll stay cautiously optimistic untill the movie comes out. We had bloody Shane Black directing previous one and we all know how that turned out
P. S. Maybe I shouldn't have used italics ?
so it's only one predator.... the question is... who's playing it??
Who's quote is that? Did anyone say that? I just said it checked the right boxes. But that doesn't stop a script being horribly written, horribly casted, horribly acted or horribly shot and edited.
Haven't seen that degree of hype here yet. Just hopeful optimism.
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...and have that prey view the Predator through a mythological / supernatural prism.
Yep, agreed, it feels like "Prey" will be the first film since "Predator 2" to check all the right boxes. 1. Unique setting, 2. Unique protagonist and 3. Mythological prism
The Plains are South Central and Southwestern, so there would have already been Spanish colonists there during that period. If they're setting it in early 1700's, then there would probably not have been contact. If it's set in the mid-1700's, then there would have been contact with the Spanish.
So they're probably just setting it during the early 1700's, just prior to first contact with the Spanish. Either way, the claw marks on the Prey script looks like bear claws so, here's hoping we get to see a Grizzly
If it was filmed in Canada it may be set in the American North-West, which was still mostly unexplored by Europeans at that time. First Europeans only landed in Washington in 1775.
The battle was still going on in the 1700s in the Texas area of the country. Mexico I believe too. Colonists from Spain versus the Comanche.
BUT WITH PREDATORS.