Predator 5 Director Explains Importance Of Prey's Indigenous Lead Actor

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Prey director Dan Trachtenberg explains the importance of the upcoming Predator movie's casting of an indigenous actor in a lead role. The horror-thriller will be a prequel to the long-running franchise that first began with the 1987 action classic Predator. The original John McTiernan film proved immensely popular with fans and spawned a franchise of five main films and two crossovers with the Alien series: Alien vs. Predator and Alien vs. Predator: Requiem. Prey originally began development in secret during the production of the franchise's previous film, The Predator (2018), which was written and directed byIron Man 3's Shane Black.

Known for her role as Kerry Loudermilk on Legion, Sioux actor Amber Midthunder stars as Naru, a young Comanche warrior in 18th-century North America. When an alien hunter threatens her tribe, Naru must stalk and kill the Predator to protect her people. She is joined by Stormee Kipp, Michelle Thrush, Julian Black Antelope, Dakota Beavers, and Dane DiLiegro, a 6'9" former professional basketball player who will play the role of the Predator. The first full Prey movie trailer released today, showing what looks to be a tense battle between Naru and her extraterrestrial pursuer.

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In an exclusive interview with Screen Rant, Trachtenberg explains the importance of having an indigenous actor in the lead role of Prey. The director expresses a desire to have a protagonist unlike anything the franchise had ever seen, as well as a character than is not typical of a Hollywood film. Read what Tractenberg says below:

I thought that if I'm going to make a movie that is this visual — a story told through action — there had to be an emotional