However, expectations were swiftly dampened in a number of ways.įor one, although the core cast are indeed all bona fide Native Americans, the Comanche dialogue would be in English, an immediate knock to the film’s credibility (albeit with the option to watch the whole film re-dubbed into Comanche with English subtitles).
Transposing the setting from the modern era to the North American Great Plains pre-European settlement and focusing on a young Comanche woman’s quest to prove herself by hunting down a mighty predator, and with 10 Cloverfield Lane director Dan Trachtenberg at the head, Prey promised the kind of fresh, exciting setting and perspective that the franchise needed. When it was first announced, Prey seemed exactly that injection of innovation. If Predator was going to have a place in 2022, it urgently needed a fresh overhaul, one that left the immature machismo behind. The team-up with the Alien franchise, while initially not awful and at least managing to keep the Predator name in the ether, didn’t win over many audiences and neither the 20 reboots managed to establish enough of an identity or provide enough thrills to restore the franchise to any kind of glory. In spite of the classic status of the 1987 original, little is expected of the Predator franchise with it never having gone away and instead eked out an existence in greatly diminished capacity searching for the kind of relevance that has eluded many a nostalgia-driven reboot.
With so many of the most enduring cultural monoliths of the 1980s being resurrected for modern audiences, the Predator movies have been left in a curious state.
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