Prey Pays Off The Original Predator Movie's Demon Tease
Prey, the fifth movie in the Predator franchise, is set to pay off the «demon» tease of the 1987 original. Set in 1719, Prey follows a female Comanche warrior named Naru (Amber Midthunder), who is forced to battle a Predator that has arrived to hunt her and her people. With a setting hundreds of years before the original Predator takes place, Prey is building on the myth of the alien hunter that was established in that first movie.
In Predator, as an American paramilitary unit prepares for battle against their invisible enemy, guerilla fighter Anna (Elpidia Carillo) imparts the legend of the alien to Dutch (Arnold Schwarzenegger). She reveals that in Latin American folklore an unseen killer arriving during hot years to claim human heads is ominously known as "The Demon who makes trophies of man." Prey is equipped to give viewers a more direct and in-the-moment look at how the arrival of the Predator has been interpreted by humans.
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As the first installment in the Predator movie franchise not set in modern times, Prey will show the Predator in a setting where its advanced technology, camouflaging cloak, and monstrous appearance will seem even more unexplainable to the humans being hunted. As the main human protagonist of Prey, Naru could be the one to impart her knowledge of the Predator among the Comanche, with the story then spreading among other Native American tribes. Of course, without the full context of the Predator being an alien from another world, what Naru and her fellow Comanches hypothesize about the hunter's origins is going to have some degree of interpretation along with it. Going all the way back to Anna's story, that lore has
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