Prey Movie Timeline: How Long Before Predator It Takes Place
The newest entry in the Predator franchise, Prey, is set 300 years before the modern-day films, including the 1987 original. Predator was created by Jim and John Thomas, with the first film directed by John McTiernan (Die Hard) and starring Arnold Schwarzenegger as Dutch, the leader of a special ops team in the jungles of South America on a rescue mission that turns into a game of survival when they come face-to-face with an alien creature known as the Predator. The Predator (also called Yautja) comes from a species of hunters that travel across the galaxy to face worthy creatures and collect trophies as a symbol of their success, including human skulls.
1987's Predator occurred in modern times, so presumably that very year. Predator 2 took place ten years later in 1997, this time in Los Angeles, California. The next appearance of the Predator would be in 2004's Alien vs. Predator, which had both species fighting on an island off the coast of Antarctica. The sequel, Alien Vs. Predator: Requiem takes place in 2007, this time in a populated area in Colorado. The next film in the series was Predators, which focused solely on the Yautja creatures (no Xenomorphs) and takes place in 2010 on a planet used as a game preserve for the creatures. The franchise's last installment was The Predator, which takes place in 2018, once again set on Earth in a populated U.S. town.
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As a result,Prey is the first Predator franchise film to take place in an earlier timeline, set in the year 1719. This places Prey three centuries earlier than 1987's Predator, exactly 268 years before those events. The setting for Prey is the Great Plains of North America, where the Comanche
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