Prey

New Predator movie Prey is now available to watch and its ending directly links it to a long-running mystery from the Predator franchise.

We'd prefer to think that a Predator just comes across the pistol long after Naru has lived a healthy and lengthy life. The bleakest answer would be that another Predator returned to Earth in the 18th century, battled with Naru and killed her, taking the pistol back. It's a nod to a long-running mystery in the series that goes all the way back to Predator 2. It's possible that the trappers came across the same Predator who fought with Adolini, killing it and taking the pistol. Using an orange flower that cools her blood, Naru sneaks up on the Predator and lures it into a trap where she manages to remove its helmet, which she then uses to get the Predator to target itself. The new movie centres on Naru ( Amber Midthunder), a young Comanche warrior who dreams of being a hunter, only to be denied the chance as she's a woman.

Prey is directed by 10 Cloverfield Lane's Dan Trachtenberg and stars Amber Midthunder, Dane DiLiegro, Michelle Thrush, and Dakota Beavers. Speaking to Total ...

Here’s what you need to know… Where can I watch the rest of the Predator films? But where can you watch Prey and the rest of the Predator films?

Prey is the new Predator film landing on Disney+ that's getting all the attention – here's everything you need to know about it.

Not only is the film a new addition to the acclaimed franchise but it also puts a Native American woman (Amber Midthunder) front and centre, a form of representation that has long been lacking in the film industry. According to the synopsis: “Set in the Comanche Nation 300 years ago, Prey is the story of a young woman, Naru, a fierce and highly skilled warrior. Prey has been released today (Friday 5 August) and as the reviews are coming out, it’s clear that the new movie is going to be a hit of the year.

The film was largely shot on the Stoney Nakoda Nation's ancestral lands in Alberta, Canada.

"The Comanches – we're nomadic," she explained. "There are not too many places in the world that have a special physical setting and a quality of light that is incredibly special, too. "Shooting in Calgary not only gave us incredibly grand landscapes, but also a very special long-lasting golden hour.

The Predator series goes back in time and back to its roots for an old-fashioned monster hunt in the gripping Prey.

Prey is a modest sci-fi action thriller, a return as we said in many ways to the series’ simple roots, and largely successful on its own terms as a result. While the film is in English with a few Comanche words here and there, the young actors make no attempt at all to sound like humans from an earlier era; much of the dialogue is delivered as if they’re twentysomethings living in 2022 who are doing some cosplay in the woods. There’s been some grumbling among fans about the fact that 20th Century Studios (a subsidiary of Disney) has chosen to premiere this film on Hulu rather than as a theatrical release like every previous Predator movie. For one thing, Prey takes the franchise back to nature, in this case a forest and plains, which is where it belongs. Prey is the fifth installment in the Predator franchise (and seventh if you count the two Alien vs. The protagonist is a young woman named Naru (Amber Midthunder), a highly proficient tracker and hunter who is nevertheless dismissed by the male members of her tribe, including her own brother (Dakota Beavers), especially when she warns that the threat they face is much more dangerous than a lion or other wild animal.

Good news horror movie fans. The highly anticipated Predator prequel, Prey has finally hit the streaming services Disney Plus and Hulu.

At the time of writing, the film holds a “certified fresh” rating of 91% on Rotten Tomatoes, with both audience and critics’ scores expressing delight in the horror. If you love Predator, check out our list of the best alien movies. Directed by Dan Trachtenberg, best-known for his work on the thriller movie 10 Cloverfield Lane, Prey is the fifth Predator movie in the long-running series.

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When it emerges it attempts to shoot Naru, but is unaware that she has placed its helmet directly opposite it, it is only able to succeed in shooting itself. It doesn't seem like her warrior skills will be underestimated again any time soon... "But that's what makes me dangerous – you can't see that I'm killing you, and it won't either." And so, with her life still intact, Naru lays a trap. With her mission accomplished, Naru returns to her tribe with the Predator's disembodied head as a trophy and is showered with praise for her efforts. The first step of her plan is to kidnap one of the surviving French fur trappers, leaving him for the Predator as bait, while she waits in the wings in disguise.

Amber Midthunder (Naru). The role of Naru — a Comanche warrior who comes face-to-face with the Predator in Prey — is one that Native American actor Amber ...

See how Amber Midthunder’s Naru measures up against Dane DiLiegro’s Predator by streaming Prey (opens in new tab), which is available on Hulu now. In November 2021, Kipp won Best Actor at the American Indian Film Festival for his lead role in Sooyii — a 2021 drama co-written and directed by stuntman Krisztian Kery about a young Pikuni man who mysteriously becomes the only survivor of a deadly curse that spreads throughout his village. Among the other beastly acting credits DiLiegro has under his belt so far are his uncredited debut role as “Hero Walker” on Season 10 of The Walking Dead and the “Muscle Monster” on Netflix’s South Korean post-apocalypse drama, Sweet Home, from 2020. However, artistic performance is not lost on Beavers, who is also a successful musician and has been active in the art since he was 13. The role of Naru — a Comanche warrior who comes face-to-face with the Predator in Prey — is one that Native American actor Amber Midthunder was born to play, marking her first time leading an action movie after years of supporting roles in the genre. Midthunder made her acting debut at 4 years old alongside her father, Westworld’s David Midthunder, in 2001’s The Homecoming of Jimmy Whitecloud before landing her first speaking role in 2008’s Sunshine Cleaning and later earning more prominent starring spots in movies like the 2016 drama, Priceless, the horror movie 14 Cameras in 2018, and the thriller Only Mine from 2019.

The 'Raphael Adolini 1715' pistol at the end of 'Prey' was once held by Danny Glover in the final moments of 'Predator 2.'

How did a Spanish pirate’s pistol end up in the hands of French hunters in America? Prey makes it clear that none of the Frenchmen had ever encountered a creature like the Predator before. If Adolini indeed gave the weapon to a Predator himself in this continuity, did that same Predator have another, later encounter with (possibly non-French) humans and lose it? The weapon’s backstory was fleshed out in the 1996 anniversary anthology issue A Decade of Dark Horse #1, in the story “Predator: 1718” by Henry Gilroy and Igor Kordey. The tale opens on Spanish pirate Captain Raphael Adolini, whose crew mutinies against him when he seeks to return stolen gold to the church for which it had been destined. It isn’t until the very end of the film that we glimpse our first and only real Easter egg: a flintlock pistol engraved with the words Raphael Adolini 1715, hinting at an entire potential timeline leading up to 1990’s Predator 2. Aboard their spaceship, just before they fly off, one of them throws the pistol to LAPD Lieutenant Mike Harrigan, played by Danny Glover, perhaps as a sign of respect. During her escape, she finds a pistol which she’s taught to use by one of the injured hunters.

A former basketball player and longtime butcher, Dane DiLiegro has found his calling playing creatures in Hollywood.

He signed a series of one-year contracts with teams in Italy (his father’s grandparents were from Gaeta and Canosa di Puglia) and Israel (his mother is Jewish). “I was a rebounder, a defender, a screen-setter,” he said. He noted that there were only a handful of performers in Hollywood with DiLiegro’s build, flexibility and athleticism, and that they got nearly all the monster parts. The following week DiLiegro flew to L.A. to pitch his food show, look at apartments and check out a couple of special effects shops. “The idea was to create content so that I could eventually host a culinary travel TV show.” The 34-year-old DiLiegro is not the kind of actor who can be hired to play in the background of a scene: he can’t blend into a crowd shot. “You have to learn to live in discomfort,” DiLiegro said. To bear the weight of a 65-pound suit and 40 pounds of animatronic equipment, he’s got to stay thin and robust. “As a kid, I’d prowl around my house on all fours, like a beast,” he said. DiLiegro has quickly become one of Hollywood’s top “creature actors.” Sheathed in form-fitting, foam-and-latex get-ups, he appears on-screen in the guise of ghouls, space aliens and whatever a screenwriter can dream up. “I shot the entire movie essentially blind, with my head in the neck of this being,” he said. “A rite of passage for all creature actors.” “It felt like a sort of monster bar mitzvah for me,” he recalled.

The Predator franchise is an unusual beast, one fantastic action/horror blockbuster in the 80s that multiple filmmakers have tried and failed to follow up.

Every moment of Prey feels tightly crafted, it does exactly what it sets out to do, and it does it with aplomb. As she does everything she can to win a position of favor and fails at every turn, she begins to notice something deadlier than the typical wildlife in the woods. Despite her skill in medicine, she longs for the glory and pride of life as a hunter. Despite the disapproval of her elders, she trains hard, becoming a talented warrior and an almost preternaturally gifted hunter. The Predator franchise is an unusual beast, one fantastic action/horror blockbuster in the 80s that multiple filmmakers have tried and failed to follow up. It's the first big franchise feature of its kind to star an almost fully Native American cast.

Prey, the new sci-fi action blockbuster, premieres this Friday 5th August 2022. Here's how to stream Prey free online from where you are.

Subscription to Disney Plus (opens in new tab) costs from £7.99 a month. You can use it to watch on your mobile, tablet, laptop, TV, games console and more. A Virtual Private Network (VPN) helps you get around this obstacle. Here's how to watch Hulu from wherever you are. Better yet, viewers in the US can watch Prey free with Hulu's 30-day trial. The movie follows skilled female warrior/badass Naru, played by actress Amber Midthunder (herself a member of the Fort Peck Sioux Tribe), as she fights to protect her tribe against an high-tech alien and smash the patriarchy.

The cast and filmmakers of Prey discuss bringing primal surprise back to the Predator franchise—and making a movie that truly honors its Comanche setting.

Then you saw it decloaked with the biomask on, and you thought, ‘Oh that’s what the Predator is!’ And then it still had yet another look, and that’s something we haven’t gotten from any of the movies since then.” That to me was the most mind-blowing and special part of this experience.” It also added to the film’s visceral return to nature in the Predator mythos. Trachtenberg cites Terrence Malick as a reference for the look of the film. It was also a thrill to make. To achieve that effect onscreen was a learning process for many involved, including the stars. “For me, this is amazing because we always wonder what life was like on the Great Plains back in the 1700s,” Myers beams after entering the Den of Geek studio at San Diego Comic-Con. “So it’s pretty amazing to bring people to see just that. Watch it once in Comanche and once in English.” It is set 300 years ago, before much of the North American continent had been colonized by European settlers, and tells the story of Naru (Amber Midthunder), a young Comanche woman who is a gifted hunter and tracker that wants to break gender norms in her community and prove she is likewise a great warrior. However, unlike recent, stumbling attempts to relaunch the Predator franchise, Prey also succeeds by mirroring a real culture and real world that has long been undervalued onscreen. They were, after all, about to make the first good Predator movie in nearly 40 years—and perhaps more importantly a movie that took Indigenous and First People’s experiences seriously. “I thought about how Native Americans, and specifically Comanche, are so often relegated to playing sidekicks or the villains,” Trachtenberg says, “never the hero.

Amber Midthunder's spine-ripper of a performance shines in Dan Trachtenberg's lean, mean Predator prequel.

The movie’s sole focus on her lead character, Naru, means that the supporting roster comes off a little wooden, but when Prey’s tracking the young warrior’s duel with the Predator -- full of powerful imagery and creative kills -- it rarely falters. Prey places a lot of stock in Naru, with her at the center of nearly every scene, and Midthunder more than keeps up with the ferocious pace of the action as she is constantly undermined and underestimated, making her victories that much more impactful. Whether it’s in a scuffle with the boys in her tribe or as she’s hiding from the Predator as he tears his way through the Plains, Naru is always listening and noticing, always using a loss or setback as a learning opportunity. It’s a crucial and well-communicated aspect of a character that, given the significant disadvantage she’s at in single combat, hammers home that Naru is the only person capable of stopping the Predator’s rampage. Previous Predator films have mined great material from the interplay between characters going up against the alien hunter, and Prey’s choice to focus on Naru to the exclusion of everyone else means that the supporting characters are a little thinly drawn. Set over 250 years before Dutch’s first encounter with that ugly son of a b!t¢#, Prey finds the Predator (Dane DiLiegro) landing in the middle of Comanche Nation for a blood-soaked trophy hunt.

Prey is a Predator prequel set 300 years in the past — and it's already earning remarkable reviews ahead of its release on Friday.

Predator fans have had to endure a lot of underwhelming and straight-up bad films over the past few decades, but it seems that Prey is the prequel that we truly deserve. As noted, the film will be streaming from Friday (August 5) on Hulu in the U.S., and over in the U.K., it’ll drop on Disney Plus on the same date. Heck, even viewers with no interest in the Predator movies till now might want to give Prey a shot by the sounds of it. This is a franchise high for the Predator series, with only 1987’s Predator on 80% landing anywhere near. The film currently scores a very strong 95% on Rotten Tomatoes (opens in new tab). Prey is scheduled to launch on Hulu on Friday, August 5 and the pre-release signs look extremely promising.

The new film is set roughly 300 years before the other films in the Predator franchise.

"Obviously the mud pit sequence has an interaction layer there, there are other things that a number of our characters say that are very relevant to what they're experiencing – and you wouldn't know that they are allusions to previous moments in the franchise, but if you're a diehard fan, you will recognise them." Well, the honest answer is that aside from a few nods – and of course the presence of the beast itself – the film does not largely concern itself with much franchise mythology. For the first stretch of Prey – the new film from 10 Cloverfield Director Dan Trachtenberg – you'd be forgiven for not realising that it was in any way connected to the Predator franchise.

Cinema's ugliest motherf**ker is back in Prey, a Predator prequel that could revive an iconic franchise. Here's our Prey review.

Trachtenberg is a filmmaker who clearly gets Predator: we see it take on a grizzly bear in a battle of luminous blood; it slices and dices a wolf before ripping out its spine; and that’s before the dizzying array of ways in which it kills the humans. The majority of the film rests on her shoulders – along with Coco’s – and they never once buckle. The shoddiness is initially hard to look past, whether it’s the Predator’s sweaty-gelatin camouflage or lion design that’s far behind the likes of 10,000 B.C. – and that was nearly 15 years ago. At a nippy 90 minutes, it lives up to that pledge; for the most part, the film never gives you a moment to breathe, moving from one mud-stomping chase to another with blood spills and skulls secured. Jeff Cutter’s cinematography is an essential component to the film’s awe-striking vibe. Though, the film is instilled with something key to the first film’s success: an unshakeable suspense in the unseen presence of a higher, nastier power.

A new trailer has been released this week by 20th Century Studios providing further insight into what you can expect from the storyline and characters in.

“Set in the Comanche Nation 300 years ago, “Prey” is the story of a young woman, Naru, a fierce and highly skilled warrior. The prey she stalks, and ultimately confronts, turns out to be a highly evolved alien predator with a technically advanced arsenal, resulting in a vicious and terrifying showdown between the two adversaries.” Check out the quick teaser trailer below which includes behind-the-scenes footage.

Prey is an upcoming film directed by Dan Trachtenberg and stars Amber Midthunder. Being the fifth Predator film, the movie has been receiving rave reviews ...

The movie’s sole focus on her lead character, Naru, means that the supporting roster comes off a little wooden, but when Prey’s tracking the young warrior’s duel with the Predator -- full of powerful imagery and creative kills -- it rarely falters. But maybe, in the case of this franchise, that marks a slight improvement over movies that wanted to be nothing but what has come before. It’s full of the Predator franchise’s trademark violence and tension, but it’s the ferocious, star-making turn from Amber Midthunder that stands as its greatest strength. The Hollywood Reporter: It’s not because there isn’t a fearsome alien on hand who hunts down humans and other species for the sheer enjoyment of it. So, let's take a look at some of the reviews of the film and see what's being said over here. Prey: The Predator Stands Tall In This New Poster For Dan Trachtenberg's Upcoming Action Flick! (View Pic).

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In our review, we concluded by saying, "Prey delivers pure Predator pandemonium, and is the Predator franchise at its best. Prey is debuting on Hulu this Friday, and the hope is streaming numbers will be high enough to warrant a sequel. With a female lead and a unique 1700s setting in The Comanche Nation, the Predator finally feels relevant again.

In a series that hasn't had a well-received entry in decades, the latest Predator film is now certified fresh on RottenTomatoes.

And that’s something the Predator series hasn’t had in decades. In stark contrast to its predecessor, which received a rating of 33% on RottenTomatoes, the reviewers sampled on the fruit-based aggregator give Prey around 4 out of 5 stars on average. Linda Marric from the prominent London newspaper The Jewish Chronicle, for example, gives the film a 4/5 and writes that it is “one of the strongest, most original and most welcome prequels of any franchise out there.” The cast is comprised of Native American actors, an extreme rarity in the entire history of Hollywood, and it is directed by Dan Trachtenberg (10 Cloverfield Lane). Prey, based on the trailer, takes the tired premise of the Predator franchise and molds it into something that feels surprisingly new. While the original 1987 film is seen as a classic, all of its five sequels have debuted to responses that were lukewarm at best.

The wide open spaces of Alberta look fantastic, there's plenty of monster mayhem and action, and the striking score by Sarah Schachner deserves to be blasted ...

As it yanks the bear from its pursuit, lifting it up for the kill, the invisible Predator is painted into view by an outpouring of blood. This gives the creature a kindred spirit of sorts in Naru ( Amber Midthunder), a young warrior who wishes to hunt like the males in her tribe, including her brother, Taabe ( Dakota Beavers). Naru is teased by the guys, who state that hunting is men’s work, but we learn she can hold her own in a fight. The Predator’s modus operandi is the same, however: it is a hunter and it’s looking for trophies of prey. “Prey” bills itself as an origin story of the first Predator alien to appear on Earth. This one is fitted with slightly retro versions of the weapons wielded by the late actor Kevin Peter Hall in the first film. Considering the recent cancellations of films scheduled for upcoming release, I suppose I should be thankful that “Prey” can be seen anywhere, including on services to which I do not subscribe. So, why is Disney dumping an entry in the popular “ Predator” series on Hulu in the middle of the summer?

The Predator prequel is finally here, featuring a closer look at the origin story of the lethal hunter. The upcoming movie is the fifth installment in the ...

“Set in the Comanche Nation 300 years ago, Prey is the story of a young woman, Naru, a fierce and highly skilled warrior,” reads the synopsis. The Prey release date is set for 3 a.m. ET/12 a.m. PT on Friday, Aug. 5. The upcoming movie is the fifth installment in the franchise featuring one of the most iconic creatures in sci-fi genre history.

The world wasn't calling out for yet another Predator movie but 10 Cloverfield Lane's Dan Trachtenberg finds mileage in a light-footed prequel led by Native ...

Said smashing is done with gusto from 25-year-old Midthunder who rises to the challenge of taking on the Predator even if her character’s ascent from unsure warrior-in-training to top-of-the-food-chain action hero is missing a few beats or, dare I say, a training montage. While it really shouldn’t be, it feels genuinely new to see a genre film of this scale centred on an almost entirely Native cast (the only white characters are odious French invaders, natch). It’s worth applauding not because of the mere fact of what it is and what it means but because screenwriter Patrick Aison (a TV pro with credits including Jack Ryan and Wayward Pines), finds a way to make it all seem perfectly seamless, the setting an inventive way to impose a new set of restrictions on a story we’ve seen a few too many times before. But when Naru notices a new kind of predator, one who can’t simply be hunted as a bear or lion would, she finds a way to prove herself and save her people.

The million-dollar franchise of Predator is getting a prequel instalment and the reviews are already flooding in.

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By focusing on the stories of the human characters—in a uniquely anachronistic setting—director Dan Trachtenberg rekindles interest in the uneven film ...

This is the shot in the arm that the franchise needed—a confident addition to its timeline, populated with moments that will leave long-time fans grinning and will encourage newcomers to explore the rest of the franchise. Alongside their respect for the Comanche, to whom the film is dedicated (and producer Jhane Meyers is a Comanche and Blackfeet American Indian, ensuring respect and authenticity in its depictions of their culture), there is a giddiness in the filmmaking that suggests that the film was a passion project for all involved. Stunt coordinators Steven McMichael and Jeremy Marinas conjure magic magic with mostly primitive weapons like bows and arrows, hatchets, and swords, giving the fights the kind of brisk pacing and visceral impact that action junkies expect in a post-John Wick film landscape. After Naru’s first confrontation with the Predator, the film continuously escalates and it becomes a gauntlet run of near escapes and propulsive action, depicted in decidedly cool but never larger-than-life terms. Aison establishes what hunting means to the Comanche, defines the roles expected of men and women in their tribe, and spotlights Naru’s competitive relationship with her older brother, Taabe, who’s played with empathy and star-making confidence by newcomer Dakota Beavers. Trachtenberg and cinematographer Jeff Cutter, reteaming from their work on 10 Cloverfield Lane (2016), take great lengths to create a sense of naturalism and beauty, both in the landscape and performances, that leads naturally into the eventual showdown with an alien audiences know is waiting in the brush. With Dan Trachtenberg’s Prey, the long-running Predator franchise finally has an entry that can stand as an equal to the original film, precisely because it narrows its focus on the story elements that matter dramatically, instead of unnecessarily expanding the franchise’s mythology.