So much of this story is rooted in the Comanche community. So that was the first seed planted of what eventually became “Prey.” You see Billy cut himself and then he screams off-camera and that’s it, but my kid brain envisioned how it must have been. I distinctly remember them saying, “There’s an awesome scene where Billy, the Native American tracker, stops on a bridge over a waterfall and cuts himself and fights the Predator.” I was in third grade, I think, and I was in the back of a carpool on the way to a karate tournament and all the sixth graders had seen “Predator” and described the entire movie to me on the way to the tournament. I was not allowed to see “Predator” when it first came out because it was R-rated. Were you into the original “Predator” when it came out? Thinking about “Who’s the antagonist,” that’s where it was like, “Oh my gosh, the Predator, thematically, is always looking for the alpha.” If our main character is trying to prove themselves and saying, “I am worthy,” and everyone around her saying, “We don’t think you’re worthy,” then the conflict is there before the sci-fi even shows up. So we thought, well, maybe if we take the engine of a sports movie, an underdog story, and infuse it with a genre setting, then it was like, what’s a protagonist that we never see? And that lead to Native Americans and, more specifically, Comanche, who have so often been relegated to playing the sidekick or the villain and never the hero. But then, not wanting it just to be a visceral experience, but really wanting it to be an emotional one, as well. I was thinking about making a period sci-fi film, something that we don’t really get too often, and also wanting to make a story that was primarily told through reaction, with as little dialogue as possible, if any. And as a tense and brutal action installment, “Prey” absolutely rips.įor its efforts, “Prey” and the people involved with its creation nabbed six Emmy nominations, including mentions for picture editing, music composition, sound editing, writing and directing of a limited or anthology series or movie, as well as a nomination for Outstanding Television Movie.ĭan Trachtenberg, who scored nominations for both directing and writing, spoke with TheWrap recently about how the film started taking shape decades ago in his mind, the process of getting the finished product to the screen and how the film’s Comanche language dub came to be. As a love letter to a too-often sidelined indigenous community, the feature hums. As an underdog tale of a young Comanche healer determined to prove herself as a hunter, the movie thrives. As a prequel breathing new life into the long-running “Predator” franchise, the film excels. It’s impossible to describe the 2022 Hulu release of “Prey” as anything other than a massive success on every level.
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