Prey

2022 - 8 - 5

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Why That Old-Timey Pistol at the End of Prey Looks So Familiar (Vulture)

The 'Raphael Adolini 1715' pistol at the end of 'Prey' was once held by Danny Glover in the final moments of 'Predator 2.'

How did a Spanish pirate’s pistol end up in the hands of French hunters in America? Prey makes it clear that none of the Frenchmen had ever encountered a creature like the Predator before. If Adolini indeed gave the weapon to a Predator himself in this continuity, did that same Predator have another, later encounter with (possibly non-French) humans and lose it? The weapon’s backstory was fleshed out in the 1996 anniversary anthology issue A Decade of Dark Horse #1, in the story “Predator: 1718” by Henry Gilroy and Igor Kordey. The tale opens on Spanish pirate Captain Raphael Adolini, whose crew mutinies against him when he seeks to return stolen gold to the church for which it had been destined. It isn’t until the very end of the film that we glimpse our first and only real Easter egg: a flintlock pistol engraved with the words Raphael Adolini 1715, hinting at an entire potential timeline leading up to 1990’s Predator 2. Aboard their spaceship, just before they fly off, one of them throws the pistol to LAPD Lieutenant Mike Harrigan, played by Danny Glover, perhaps as a sign of respect. During her escape, she finds a pistol which she’s taught to use by one of the injured hunters.

Predator actor Dane DiLiegro on creature roles and 'Prey' (Los Angeles Times)

A former basketball player and longtime butcher, Dane DiLiegro has found his calling playing creatures in Hollywood.

He signed a series of one-year contracts with teams in Italy (his father’s grandparents were from Gaeta and Canosa di Puglia) and Israel (his mother is Jewish). “I was a rebounder, a defender, a screen-setter,” he said. He noted that there were only a handful of performers in Hollywood with DiLiegro’s build, flexibility and athleticism, and that they got nearly all the monster parts. The following week DiLiegro flew to L.A. to pitch his food show, look at apartments and check out a couple of special effects shops. “The idea was to create content so that I could eventually host a culinary travel TV show.” The 34-year-old DiLiegro is not the kind of actor who can be hired to play in the background of a scene: he can’t blend into a crowd shot. “You have to learn to live in discomfort,” DiLiegro said. To bear the weight of a 65-pound suit and 40 pounds of animatronic equipment, he’s got to stay thin and robust. “As a kid, I’d prowl around my house on all fours, like a beast,” he said. DiLiegro has quickly become one of Hollywood’s top “creature actors.” Sheathed in form-fitting, foam-and-latex get-ups, he appears on-screen in the guise of ghouls, space aliens and whatever a screenwriter can dream up. “I shot the entire movie essentially blind, with my head in the neck of this being,” he said. “A rite of passage for all creature actors.” “It felt like a sort of monster bar mitzvah for me,” he recalled.

Is Prey's Orange Flower Real? And How Dangerous Is It? (Screen Rant)

A mysterious orange flower becomes Naru's secret weapon in Prey when she gets hunted down by a Predator – here is everything we know about the medicinal flower ...

Naru becomes invisible to the Predator when she ingests the orange flower because the flower reduces her body temperature. Since Naru and her mother use a local name, "orange tutsia," to describe the flower, it is hard to determine whether it is real or only exists in Prey's universe. However, Naru later capitalizes on her sharp wit and survival instincts and deduces a perfect plan to overpower the fortress-like creature.

'Prey' Ending Explained: Who Wins the First Human vs. Predator ... (Collider.com)

Predator prequel Prey features the creature's first visit to Earth — and a surprising tie-in to the original films.

And as for the connection to the Predator mythology at large...well, that's revealed during Naru's encounter with the fur trappers. With the pistol now appearing in Prey, it's a clever way for Trachtenberg to pay homage to the previous Predator films while also staying true to the film's time period. If Trachtenberg and screenwriter Patrick Aison return for a sequel with Midthunder, the idea of Naru having to fend off multiple Predators could definitely make for great sequel fodder. Victorious, Naru returns to her tribe with the Predator's head and is made the war chief. Despite Naru's efforts to warn them, the members of her tribe fall to the Predator's superior weaponry. This has led to critical acclaim, and is extremely fitting given that this year marks the 35th anniversary of the original Predator film.

Prey Post-Credits Scene Moment Makes You Read Between the Lines (Den of Geek)

This article contains Prey spoilers. Who knew the secret to the Predator franchise's future was to always go back in time?

In essence, the animated sequence suggests that Naru’s victory over the Predator became the stuff of legend and oral tradition: a story that was passed down from one generation to the next, including eventually on ledger paper. And given how the lone Predator in Prey can be viewed as a metaphor for European incursions into this land… At most, we’ve reached a kind of intermission before the real test comes when the Predators return to Comanche lands in force. This weekend’s Prey is the culmination of years of passion, and years of planning, from the filmmaker who wrested the Predator movies away from their recent and failed experiments of franchise-building in the future. The “post-credits scene” in Prey is technically neither after the credits or a full scene. however there is more to the story if you paid close attention to the end credits…

'Prey' Film Review: This Is How You Reboot A Horror Franchise (Deadline)

The Predator franchise is the ugly step-child of horror monster cannon. Fans know about it, are aware of it, but don't necessarily give it the credit it ...

The director puts his faith in a relative newcomer to shoulder the movie. At every increasing moment of this journey, Naru experiences a change in front of the camera, and it’s not just talked about in passing. Naru (Amber Midthunder) is a Comanche woman who aims to become a warrior by embarking on the “kühtaamia,” a rite of passage ritual where the hunter hunts the hunter who hunts them.

'Prey' Ending, Explained - What Is The Predator's Agenda? Does ... (Digital Mafia Talkies)

Directed by Dan Trachtenberg, "Prey" is the seventh film in the "Predator" franchise. Yes, I am counting the "Alien vs. Predator" films too because it has ...

And we realize that she has, in fact, lured him to the bog that she got stuck in earlier in the movie and is trying to drown the Predator. But the Predator stands up, and it seems like her plan has failed. It’s the same gun that one of the Predators hands over to Lt. Mike Harrigan (Danny Glover) in “Predator 2.” How did it get to that Predator? Well, there is so much time between “Prey” and “Predator 2”. Maybe after learning about the Predator’s failure against Naru, they come back, take the gun and keep it as a memento. The Predator takes aim at Naru, and we see that Naru has already positioned the helmet in such a way that it’s facing the creature. We have seen it do that in all the films preceding “Prey.” We see this Predator do the same to a snake. Well, Naru uses it to bait the Predator once again to enter a space that is filled to the brim with traps of her own making. Once he’s awake and screaming because rats are eating away at his amputated leg, Naru consumes the herb mixture that cools her blood down and makes her invisible to the Predator. When it’s close enough to take a shot, Naru tries to blow its head off but only manages to get its helmet off. Here, though, we see that the laser pointers start off in a triangle formation and then move to individual spots separately so that when the Predator shoots its metal arrows (no energy blast involved), each of them hits each of the dots. The Predator tries to shoot Taabe, but the arrows miss him and go towards the dots. In the scene where Naru falls into a bog and barely makes it out with her whole body covered in mud, it seems like she’s going to encounter the Predator. And, like in the first movie, she’s going to realize that the mud cools down the body and prevents the Predator from seeking its victim out with its heat vision. In the previous movies, we’ve seen it take aim with the laser pointers in its helmet and then shoot a blast of energy that absolutely decimates its victim. Or, maybe that’s just how they look in that era, and over the years, they get buffer and broader and turn into the Predator we know and love to hate. Directed by Dan Trachtenberg, “Prey” is the seventh film in the “Predator” franchise.