The new film from Dan Trachtenberg serves as a franchise prequel of sorts.
movies, you know that humans are often placed at a disadvantage, facing off against extraterrestrial species with powers like invisibility and thermal vision. Even the indestructible Arnold Schwarzenegger had a hard time competing with one of them in the original 1987 film. But in—the latest in the franchise, launching on Hulu this Friday—the Predator meets his match in Naru , an Indigenous warrior determined to protect her community on the Comanche Nation at all costs.
Set in the early 1700s on the American Great Plains, we first meet Naru while she’s living peacefully. She longs to be a hunter for her people, but faces constant ridicule from male counterparts. “Why do you want to hunt?” asks Naru’s mother in one scene. “Because you all think I can’t,” Naru replies.
For Midthunder, it was this examination of the Indigenous way of life that drew her to the role in the first place; in fact, when she initially auditioned, she didn’t even realize that it was amovie. “Honestly, all that I knew was that it was a story about a young Comanche woman who wanted to hunt,” Midthunder recalls with a laugh. “I thought that was interesting!”
As the Predator begins zeroing in on Naru and her fellow hunters as a threat, she turns to her land-based teachings to outsmart the blood-thirsty monster. In one scene, for instance, she discovers that her people’s medicinal flower petals actually lower body temperature, making the heat-sensing Predator blind to them. Thus begins a battle of wits—and for once, Indigenous people have the upper hand.
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