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- Prey may be fictional, but it was made in part from the nonfictional creativity and labor of real-to-reel Comanches, including producer Jhane Myers, language consultants Kathryn Pewenofkit Briner and Guy Narcomey, dialogue actor Marla Nauni, research historian Jimmy Arterberry, and title sequence artist Nocona Burgess, all of whom know of cultural nuances and new possibilities for how Comanches appear, sound, and perform on-screen.
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In August 2022, Bennett Taylor confirmed that the script for Prey revealed Billy Sole, a Native American tracker and scout played by Sonny Landham in the original Predator (1987), to be a reincarnation of Taabe, reframing his "last stand" with that film's Predator as being due to subconscious memories of a past life.
Aug 14, 2022 · Hulu's sci-fi movie Prey destroys old Native American tropes through its honest and entertaining depiction of a Comanche warrior fighting an alien Predator.
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Aug 10, 2022 · Hulu's "Prey" has become a Hollywood flagbearer for Native American representation and authenticity. How does the Indigenous community really feel about it?
- When societies thrived. “Honesty was important to me,” Midthunder—who is Sahiya Nakoda, Hunkpapa Lakota, and Sisseton Dakota—told National Geographic (U.K.).
- The fight for visibility. Producer Jhane Myers is Blackfeet and Comanche. “I think this film, when it comes to authenticity and representation, sets the bar—and it shifts a little bit against the paradigm that Hollywood has created for Native people,” she says.
- An inglorious history. From the first European settlements in the 1600s, through casual brutality, war, disease, forced removal from ancestral lands and unsustainable changes in lifestyle, North American Indigenous people suffered a sustained cultural annihilation at the hands of white colonists.
- Protest and progress. A watershed of sorts came in 1973, on the highest profile stage in the industry. Winning the Best Actor Oscar for his portrayal of mob boss Vito Corleone in The Godfather (1972), Marlon Brando chose to snub the honour, sending an emissary to decline it on his behalf.
Aug 5, 2022 · Amber Midthunder -- who stars as main protagonist Naru in 20th Century Studios' new Hulu-exclusive Predator prequel film, Prey -- has spoken to just how dedicated director Dan Trachtenberg was to accurately depicting Native American life in the early 18th century.
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Jul 28, 2022 · Prey, to be released on HULU on August 5, will release an English and Comanche Nation language-dubbed version, period-accurate regalia, and Native lead actors Amber Midthunder and Dakota Beavers. The film was directed by Dan Trachtenberg and executive produced by Comanche Nation citizen Jhane Myers.
Aug 4, 2022 · But in Prey—the latest in the franchise, launching on Hulu this Friday—the Predator meets his match in Naru (Amber Midthunder), an Indigenous warrior determined to protect her community on the ...
