The news outlet TimeOut has published a new production still from Prey as well as an interview with director Dan Trachtenberg. There is a few interesting bits of information in there that I don’t think we’ve heard before. Trachtenberg mentions that Amber Midthunder and her co-stars went through a tough training regime before filming.
Midthunder went through a gruelling pre-movie training regimen with her First Nations co-stars. ‘it was a month or two of physical training, not just to learn the choreography of the fight sequences but learning to work as a unit with the other Comanche hunters,’ says Trachtenberg, who calls the Comanche warriors ‘the SEAL Team Six of their time’.
The new Prey production still shows Amber Midthunder as Naru hiding behind a tree with the Predator in the background.
Trachtenberg mentions about the Predator being 300 years older than we’ve seen and is slimmer and less armoured.
‘I wanted [the Predator] to be scarier than we’ve seen it before,’ he tells Time Out. ‘It’s intelligent and it has advanced technology, and that makes it even more difficult to take on. But because the movie is set 300 years in the past, those things need to feel a little bit older than we’ve seen before, but also still far more advanced than what we think our earthlings would be able to handle.’ The remorseless hunter-killer from space also has a new look. ‘I wanted to make sure the head was more proportional to the body,’ says the director. ‘This predator is much slimmer and less armoured than it’s ever been. It’s more ‘creature’. It’s still hulking and ferocious.’
Trachtenberg also reveals the name of Naru’s dog we saw in the trailer which I don’t think has been revealed before. The dog’s name is Sarii and Naru’s relationship with it is similar to Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior. The 10 Cloverfield Lane director also says that Prey was inspired by Sonny Landham’s character in the first Predator – Billy Sole, who was part Sioux himself.
Prey was filmed in Alberta, Canada and the weather and terrain there helped give the film The Revenant-like authenticity. When asked if there will be further Predator sequels after this one, Trachtenberg hints there might be.
Very possibly. ‘There are a lot of exciting ideas for what could be next for the franchise,’ says Trachtenberg. ‘The things that most excite me are the boldest swings and I think there’s scope to do other things that haven’t been done before.’
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She will kill it by being clever.
I think most everyone thought it was cool when Arnold was shooting pointing sticks (with a gun powder chaser) at a Predator.
To be fair, it probably is going to get killed by a little girl armed with a few pointy sticks. I'm fine with that if it feels like she earned it though, and this movie gives off strong vibes that that's the story it's telling.
Personally I want the end fight to be her using her light weight to her advantage, and baiting it into a pursuit across flimsy improvised wooden structures that immediately collapse under it, dunking it into either tar or quicksand, then being set alight with flaming arrows. But I'll probably have to keep dreaming on that one.
have you seen the movie yet ?
Regards.
Can't wait to see how Trachtenberg has the main characters process what they're encountering with Feral stirring up their spiritual beliefs.
Amber can't act, seen her in other movies,she can't. We need a credible main character.
It'll stop when it's no longer profitable for the talking heads to push, which will be when The Right is no longer in a moral panic about "degeneracy" "ruining society". So never, basically.
And yet you can't seem to explain why, at all.
If anything the cut from her being laughed at by the men, directly to her f**king up stalking the bear is the opposite of woke. The trailer sets up that vibe and subverts it immediately. Some people (you) just desperately want to get their panties in a bunch about this movie for some reason.
Agreed, just f**king shut it Yautja.
What else doesn't look good at all ?
Only, it's not looking good at all, and not because of the blatant wokism.The wokism will
just aggravate the problem, with a cool looking predator,or pratical effects for the bear,etc
a lot of people would've rolled their eyes but still find something to enjoy.I think this movie will be quickly forgotten.For now, the fact that The Predator was crazy in its own stupidity is helping Prey,
it's easy to be pleased by something normal after watching The Predator wich felt like a parody/comedy.
But it's not gonna last long.
And then they'll probably kill him, making his death impactful to us who were beginning to like him. He'll possibly sacrifice himself to buy her time or some like that.
I think the grey area where people who go on about woke shit feel vindicated is when there's cheap tokenism, and this seems to wink at that but subvert it, even just in the trailer. I'm pretty confident this is going to satisfy, and even some of those screechers will give it a "this one's okay 'cause it's good" pass.
I hope the Director isn't a newb on Yautja lore how Shane Black and Fred Dekker were...still the movie does look good.
The Mad Max 2 comparison doesn't exactly bode well for it either.
https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/V0GMZupdlLbXogSLxNvgHQ--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTY0MA--/https://s.yimg.com/cd/resizer/2.0/original/LwpX4I8RCrjH-u9Z7vu7OvLpWLA
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Gonna have to add a dislike button because of you. haha
I have a feeling it may be the trappers doing it if it happens. Can't see the Predator doing anything to the dog unless he attacks. I can see the trappers doing it so the audience can hate them when things start to go down with them.
Aye. I really love Predator 2, but the first Predator is the only one that really made the Predator feel like a cryptid of sorts, an unknowable creature just barely out of reach right here on Earth. From the look of things, Prey seems like it is going to be going back and doing exactly that again.
Too late
https://i.imgur.com/kA36tYK.jpeg
Seriously.
As someone else mentioned Fugitive looks like a bobblehead and Berserker has that gigantic mound of mandibles that sticks out so far birds probably land them to rest. The masks certainly sometimes feel a bit big, Falconer being the biggest offender there. I guess the AVP boys heads couldn't possibly be out of proportion due to their chonky bodies.
Basically what I'm saying is, thinking of the good predator designs, the head proportions are fine