Glow stick fluid was used for some of the Predator’s blood. The Predator’s retractable shield is “a direct lift from the video game God of War, that also is a favorite of mine that I was playing before making the movie,” the director admits.ħ. When the Predator types on its wrist gauntlet, it corresponds with the Close Encounters of the Third Kind theme. Prey has film and video games homages.īeyond the Predator franchise, Trachtenberg paid homage to other films and video games with Prey. That is the exact angle,” Trachtenberg proudly beams.Ħ. “This cut that happens is precisely how Billy in the original Predator cuts himself across the chest. Prey features a bloody nod to the original Predator.Īlthough Prey is set long before the events of 1987’s Predator, Trachtenberg inserted a subtle reference to the original: the way the French fur trappers cut Taabe is a nod to Sonny Landham’s character cutting his chest in Predator. “As we learned when we were shooting, when you put on the thermal vision, everything is hot, because we’re outside and the hot sun is baking the ground.”ĥ. “The production of this movie disproves the way that the Predator works,” Trachtenberg adds. “Although we did have the same problems they had, which is if it was too hot, everything would be red and yellow.” “We actually shot with a real thermal camera, like the original Predator, so that we wanted to have that as much in-camera as possible,” Cutter notes. A thermal camera was used to achieve the Predator’s vision.Īlthough technology has advanced considerably since the original Predator, Prey utilized a thermal camera to show Predator’s point-of-view, just like the original production. He continues, “Sarah found a way to have a score for this movie that oftentimes was more modern and not what you’d expect, but then these movies that were ginormous and heavy and inspiring and all those things.”Ĥ. But that sequence where she sets out, we had temped with Maleficent or Snow White and the Huntsman you know, really big fantasy.” I loved the idea of doing a movie set in a time period where the music didn’t necessarily always reflect the music you expect to hear in that time period. We had temp scored the whole movie with very modern, atmospheric, droney, brooding. I did a little bit of a dive on her and found other games she had scored that I loved, and she was incredible. Who did this?’ And I saw Sarah’s name and wasn’t familiar with it. “I was playing Assassin’s Creed Valhalla while we were prepping the movie, and I was like, ‘God, this music’s beautiful. Trachtenberg discovered composer Sarah Schachner through a video game: The film’s composer was found by playing video games. It became better suited tracking the Predator alongside Naru, putting the sequence in the middle, and then making it all more menacing.”ģ. “This was born out of the original opening of the movie, where we sort of do this chain of the natural world that the Predator comes in looking for the alpha. That sequence begat a similar one moments later, with an ant being eaten by mouse, the mouse being eaten by a snake, and the snake being killed by the Predator. “It originally started on an opening shot of a bug that got eaten by a fish, and the fish got picked up by a hawk, and the hawk was shot down ,” Trachtenberg divulges. Rather than opening with Naru awakening, the script began with a sequence that would establish a theme of the movie. The opening scene was different in the script. The cloaking felt too genre, like ‘Tune in for Predator!’ when actually we were saying this movie is doing more things.”Ģ. “And then at the last second we added the prayer, the beginning of telling the story in Comanche, and it felt like the tone was more serious. “We fought for it, and then they gave it to us,” Trachtenberg reveals. The 20th Century Studios opening title card originally featured Predator’s laser target and the logo went invisible like the creature’s cloaking mechanism as the fanfare dropped out. The Predator originally infiltrated the 20th Century Studios logo. Here are eight things I learned from the Prey commentary…ġ. Catanzaro is included alongside a making-of featurette, a FYC panel with cast and crew, and more. (Hopefully we can convince them to do Hellraiser next!)Īn audio commentary with writer-director Dan Trachtenberg, star Amber Midthunder, director of photography Jeff Cutter, and editor Angela M. Not only does it carry exclusive extras, but there are 4K UHD and Steelbook options to boot. 20th Century Studios deserves recognition for listening to fan demand, as not only has Preyreceived a physical media release - virtually unheard of for a Hulu original - but it’s an impressive one.
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