Getting the first look at the forthcoming sci-fi/horror film Prey, which is part of the Predator universe first entered by Arnold Schwarzenegger in 1987. (Strange to hit Arnold twice in a week…) In this yarn, the very first visit of the extraterrestrial predator to Earth brings on a confrontation with a young Comanche girl.
Drops on Hulu August 5.
Set in the Comanche Nation 300 years ago, Prey is the story of a young woman, Naru, a fierce and highly skilled warrior. She has been raised in the shadow of some of the most legendary hunters who roam the Great Plains, so when danger threatens her camp, she sets out to protect her people. 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.
It’s an all-native cast, and supposedly a lot of effort was made to represent the Comanche well. Maybe this will lead to a movie of Robert E. Howard’s The Thunder Rider. Iron Heart can dream, right?
Check out the interesting right-hand archery technique…
Matthew says
I think the first Predator film as a Frontier Partisans film with it being about mercs in South America. The Dark Horse comics based on the franchise also had a lot of FP themes in them including one which was based on the whole Tsavo maneaters.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Predator_(franchise)_comics
The rights for the franchise has since moved to Marvel. In a dreamworld I’d pitch a Conan/Predator crossover.
JimC says
It most certainly was.
Paul McNamee says
Cuba / Puerto Rico.
1898.
Just sayin’.
lane batot says
Interesting…..although I’m STILL waiting for an accurate, definitive movie about Cynthia Anne Parker and the Comanches…..