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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?
Prey: Directed by Dan Trachtenberg. With Amber Midthunder, Dakota Beavers, Dane DiLiegro, Stormee Kipp. Naru, a skilled warrior of the Comanche Nation, fights to protect her tribe against one of the first highly-evolved Predators to land on Earth.
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- Action, Adventure, Horror
- Dan Trachtenberg
- 2022-08-05
- What It’S Like to Be A Journalist Covering A Film, in This Case, Prey
- Details Given to Me from Disney / Hulu About The Cast and A Summary of The Film
- Cast and Crew
- Quotes from The Director and Producer
- Native Elements in The Film Had Exceptional Attention to Detail
- The Filming Process of Prey, A Ceremonial Start and A Land Acknowledgment
- An Accurate Portrayal of Comanche Regalia, Body Decorations and Paint
- Amber Midthunder and Dakota Beaver’s Wardrobe
- A 4-Week Boot Camp For The Actors Before Facing The Predator
As a journalist and film critic for Rotten Tomatoes, it is a pretty exciting experience to cover a film, especially in the case of Prey, which stars a cast of Native actors, the impressive director Dan Trachtenberg and Comanche citizen Jhane Myers. The media team at Disney coordinates interviews with the cast and crew, and I even get to preview the...
An all-new action-thriller from 20th Century Studios directed by Dan Trachtenberg (“The Boys,” “10 Cloverfield Lane”), “Prey” is the latest entry in the “Predator” franchise. The film will stream August 5, 2022, as a Hulu Original in the U.S., Star+ in Latin America, and Disney+ under the Star banner in all other territories. Set in the Comanche Na...
“Prey” stars Amber Midthunder (“The Ice Road,” “Roswell, New Mexico”), newcomer Dakota Beavers, Stormee Kipp (“Sooyii”), Michelle Thrush (“The Journey Home”), Julian Black Antelope (“Tribal”), and Dane DiLiegro (“American Horror Stories”) as the Predator. The film is directed by Dan Trachtenberg and written by Patrick Aison (“Jack Ryan,” “Treadston...
Director Dan Trachtenberg was a big fan of the original film. “I was in third grade when the first one came out, and I have a very vivid memory of not being allowed to see the movie and being in the car on the way to a karate tournament with all the boys who had all just seen the film and described the entire movie to me on the way to the tournamen...
According to lead actors Midthunder and Beavers (stay tuned for their upcoming interviews in Native Viewpoint,) there was an earnest effort to ensure everything was culturally accurate. Midthunder stated how Jhane Myers saw a cradleboard on the set, then realizing it was not accurate to Comanche culture, took the cradleboard home to adjust it to be...
According to the 20th Century Studios press announcement: ‘Principal photography on “Prey” began in June 2021 at the Stoney Nakoda Nation near Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Additional filming took place in and around Calgary over the next several months, including Moose Mountain and Elbow River.’ The creative team behind the beautiful cinematography in...
As described in the announcement, Trachtenberg and Myers worked closely with costume designer Stephanie Porter and makeup department head Samantha Rumball to accurately portray the Comanche. The Comanche colors are black, red, and white, which are earth pigments that are historically correct for the 1700s. According to Rumball in the release, “The ...
Also described by the filmmakers regarding Midthunder’s character Naru, Porter needed something authentic to the period but also practical for filming. “Naru’s costume is made from buckskin, which is basically deer leather, and we’ve given it a traditional Comanche shape,” Porter explained. “We wanted to have Amber able to run and jump and fight, a...
The production notes from Prey described an intensive regimen of physical training: To get the cast into a predator state of mind, the production scheduled high-intensity strength training, or “Boot Camp,” wherein the actors physically built up their cardio levels, learned stunts, choreographed fight scenes, practiced weaponry, and learned horse-ri...
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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- 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.
Prey is a 2022 American science fiction film in the Predator franchise. It serves as a prequel to previous films, being set in the Northern Great Plains in 1719. The film is directed by Dan Trachtenberg and written by Patrick Aison.
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Jul 22, 2022 · Stars and filmmakers of the new Predator movie Prey discuss the importance of Native American representation and how the film is the first to be dubbed in the Native Comanche language upon release to the public.
