Watch the deleted Prey scene director Dan Trachtenberg was bummed to cut

polygon.com:

This week, 20th Century Studios’ breakout 2022 hit Preyarrives on 4K Blu-ray. That might be an obvious mile marker for a blockbuster Predator revival, but for Prey, it’s an unexpected twist — and for physical media buffs, it’s a glimmer of hope. Originally produced for and distributed on Hulu, the movie has become part of a Blu wave, as parent company Disney renews its focus on physical releases. The studio’s 4K summer slate has included everything from a Cinderella restoration to WandaVision. Prey joins the fray with a tricked-out disc that includes the kinds of special features that were starting to seem lost to time.

Now out on 4K UHD, Blu-ray, and DVD — as well a sweet arty Steelbook — the Prey disc comes with a behind-the-scenes documentary, audio commentary, a panel with below-the-line creatives, an alternate opening scene, and multiple deleted scenes. Maybe that doesn’t put Prey on the pedestal with the Fight Club paper-bag DVD and other all-time-great home-video releases. But these days, it’s a nice gift to a film thought to be locked in the box of straight-to-streaming releases. Director Dan Trachtenberg told Polygon he never in a million years expected to hold a copy of his Predator movie tricked out with fancy box art, but it’s a welcome surprise.

“It’s super cool,” he said over the phone in September. “Who knows… if the cloud is destroyed one day when Skynet takes over, at least there’s some physical representation of something that I’ve made that exists in the apocalypse. You could throw it as a deadly weapon or [watch it] as entertainment!”

To coincide with the release, 20th Century Studios has released one of the deleted scenes from the disc, a pre-visualized version of a spectacular action sequence that