Dan Trachtenberg was still developing PreyMovie when he was told it would debut on Hulu. That didn't stop him from crafting a cinematic experience: 'I’ve worked in television where we’re boxed in the format we have to work in. That was not the case here.”
,” a 1700s-set take on the “Predator” franchise, when he was informed that the film would be the first entry in the storied action series to debut outside of theaters.
But the director wasn’t going to let a less glamorous distribution plan prevent him from putting out all the stops on the period details and bloody violence of “Prey.” “Prey” thoughtfully shifts the dynamic of “Predator” to the Great Plains, at a time when some Native Americans still live untouched by encroaching colonial forces. A Comanche woman named Naru is hungry to prove her abilities as a hunter, but she gets more of a fight than she bargained for when a deadly dreadlocked alien makes contact and begins to hunt for sport.
“Part of why it’s called ‘Prey’ is because I felt like it would allow it to function similar to what ‘Star Wars’ was doing; there were these offshoots like ‘Rogue One’ and ‘Solo.’ I knew that Shane’s movie was meant to be the start of something new. I didn’t want them to just say no because they had those plans,” Trachtenberg explained.
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