Prey Movie Details:
Based on | Characters by Jim Thomas John Thomas |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Genre | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi |
Release date | July 21, 2022 (San Diego Comic-Con) August 5, 2022 (United States) |
Running time | 1hr 39min |
Age rating | R |
Starring | Amber Midthunder Dakota Beavers Dane DiLiegro Michelle Thrush Stormee Kipp Julian Black Antelope Bennett Taylor |
Directed by | Dan Trachtenberg |
Screenplay by | Patrick Aison |
Story by | Patrick Aison Dan Trachtenberg |
Produced by | John Davis Jhane Myers Marty P. Ewing |
Cinematography by | Jeff Cutter |
Edited by | Angela M. Catanzaro Claudia Castello |
Music by | Sarah Schachner |
Production Company | 20th Century Studios Davis Entertainment Lawrence Gordon Productions |
Distributor | Hulu (United States) Star+ (Latin America) Disney+ (International) |
Prey Movie Cast & Characters:
- Amber Midthunder as Naru, a young Comanche warrior who protects her tribe against a Predator
- Dakota Beavers as Taabe, Naru’s brother and a skilled hunter. In August 2022, Bennett Taylor confirmed that the script for Prey revealed Billy Sole, a Native American tracker and scout played by Sonny Landham in the original Predator (1987), to be a reincarnation of Taabe, reframing his “last stand” with that film’s Predator as being due to subconscious memories of a past life.
- Dane DiLiegro as the Feral Predator, shown to wield primitive versions of the advanced weaponry used by Predators in previous future-set films, which Naru calls a Mupitsi after a monster in Comanche folklore.
- Michelle Thrush as Aruka, Naru and Taabe’s mother
- Julian Black Antelope as Chief Kehetu
- Coco as Sarii, Naru’s dog companion
- Stormee Kipp as Wasape, a Comanche hunter who looks down on Naru
- Mike Paterson as Big Beard
- Bennett Taylor as Raphael Adolini, an Italian translator hired by the French. This character was first alluded to in Predator 2 (1990) and later depicted in the comic book Predator: 1718 (1996).
- Nelson Leis as Waxed Mustache
- Troy Mundle as Spyglass
Storyline:
Set 300 years ago, tells the story of a young Comanche woman, a fierce and highly skilled warrior, who stalks, and ultimately confronts, a highly evolved alien predator with a technically advanced arsenal.
Prey Movie Box Office Collection & Budget:
Worldwide Collection | $65 million |
About Prey Movie:
Prey is an American science fiction horror film in the Predator franchise. It is the fifth film in the mainline series and seventh in the overall franchise. It is a prequel to the first four films, being set in the Northern Great Plains in 1719.
Prey is based on the Predator franchise. It is the fifth film in the mainline series and seventh in the overall franchise. It is a prequel to the first four films, being set in the Northern Great Plains in 1719.
Filming took place around Calgary during the summer of 2021, with the entire film shot in English and some sequences shot in the Comanche language as well. The remaining sequences were dubbed into Comanche by the cast, reprising their roles. The film is the only feature film to have a full Comanche language dub.
The first standalone Predator movie with a female lead. Alien vs. Predator (2004) also had a female lead.
Prey premiered at the San Diego Comic-Con on July 21, 2022, and was released by 20th Century Studios as a Hulu original film in the United States and on Disney+ Star internationally on August 5.
The film received positive reviews from critics, with praise for its action sequences, Midthunder’s performance, cinematography, Trachtenberg’s direction, and the Indigenous casting, with many critics calling it the best Predator installment since the first film.
The film was released on DVD, Blu-ray, and Ultra HD Blu-ray on October 3, 2023.