‘Prey’ Became a Best-in-Class Prequel by Bringing ‘Predator’ Back to the Basics
thewrap.com“Predator” prequel from 2022, the duo took advantage of the great outdoors in a massive scope. While their 2016 film “10 Cloverfield Lane” relied on a virtually all-interior pressure cooker set in a John Goodman-run bunker. “We were probably 95% location,” Cutter said of shooting “Prey,” noting that they “only had three or four stage days where we used stages for campfire scenes.“ He and Trachtenberg shot the prequel with anamorphic lenses over nearly 60 days in Calgary, drumming up the latest project featuring the time-traveling Predator (played here by the 6’8” Dane DiLiegro) as he wrecks havoc on a Comanche tribe in the 1700s.
A warrior-hopeful named Naru (Amber Midthunder) rises to her family’s defense against all odds.“We had this amazing ceremony in First Nations where they blessed us before we shot,” Cutter said of the surprisingly unfettered filming process. “We got really lucky with weather and all that stuff.
The land is so untouched, and it’s just such an amazing place to be because there are no power lines, no roads, there’s not a Starbucks around the corner.
You’re pristine as far as the eye can see.”“Prey” is an anomaly in the modern action realm, in that it is a tight 99 minutes, including a ledger painting-inspired end credit sequence.
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