Dan Trachtenberg Talks Feral Predator, Prey’s New Predator!

Alongside the official release of Prey’s full trailer yesterday (which is currently trending at #3 on YouTube!) director Dan Trachtenberg and producer Jhane Myers spoke to several outlets regarding the film. With each new interview we’ve been learning more about the upcoming Predator film ahead of its August 5th release.

In this new interview with ComicBook.com, Trachtenberg spoke about Prey’s iteration of the Predator (which we now know was called the Feral Predator on set), and the inspiration behind some of the new extra-terrestrial gadgetry we saw in the latest trailer!

“I teased a while ago that I took inspiration from the latest God of War video game, and those two things are in the trailer. One is his shield, that you see briefly. And the other is not a Predator gadget, but just the way that Nadu, wields her axe, she invents something very cool for that Tomahawk. And that comes from a mechanic in that video game. I think the shield is something super cool. There’s a couple things that are the same, but even those things function slightly differently.”

While we haven’t had a clear look at Prey’s Feral Predator yet, it’s easy to see from the trailer that the design is following a very different aesthetic with the bone half-mask and very primal looking weaponry. And there may be more to this take on the Predator, with Trachtenberg likening the Feral Predator to a different breed of Predators.

“I think our Predator in my mind, not only does he exist, you know, 300 years before, but I think in sci-fi movie terms, time moves very slowly. If the way that Star Wars functions or even Star Trek, you know, it’s like 300 years. Ships aren’t suddenly like so different. But I think this guy’s perhaps from a different hemisphere of the planet and a little bit of a different breed. So even his look is a little new, it’s familiar, but new. So I’m excited for people, even for diehard fans, to really see something they hadn’t seen before.”

We also now know that performer Dane DiLiegro is the one inside the Feral Predator suit! Confirming Dane’s casting in the film, Dan Trachtenberg told ComicBook.com:

“We met him at the initial like costume (test). And he was who they found just as reference for that day. And then he came over and he was like ‘I would do anything to be in this movie.’ And it turned out, he really was like, one of the only people capable of pulling this off.”

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