"I said, 'I can kill that…' Which was my Naru brain speaking out of my body I think. It's kind of like a, 'I just saw a sasquatch' moment, you're like, 'what the heck is that man!' It's kind of a shock but also like damn, that's pretty cool," said Beavers. There was kind of a buzz on set, and then I see him go walking through the trees. "The first time I saw him, we were still shooting the other scenes without him. We talked a lot about how we could make him feel like he's actually angry or curious, so it wasn't just this thing trudging through the woods, you could feel like it was thinking and feeling."įor cast members Dakota Beavers and Amber Midthunder, encountering the Predator himself on set for the first time was an unforgettable experience. "Dane had a lot of great instincts and constantly brought up ways of handling stuff that I was tripping up on…The ADI team had great instincts not only in the design of the suit but actual puppeteering which brought so much emotion. Because there is certainly an instinct to feel like you have to make yourself look bigger, but the suit does a lot of that work for you" Trachtenberg explained. There was a lot of making it smaller, the performance. "There was a lot of frankly taking away rather than adding. To bring the Predator to life, Trachtenberg collaborated with creature actor Dane DiLegro to discover how this iteration of the alien creature would move. "I always wanted the head to be more proportional to the body, so they placed the head on top of Dane DiLiegro, our performer's head, so he didn't have to fit inside, and then it would have to be giant to fit all the gears and gizmos of the puppeteering."
Never allow the limitations of the practical suit to get in our way," said Trachtenberg. "The thing I was hellbent on was making sure that this felt much more alien and creature-like than ever before. Trachtenberg and his team worked hand in hand with special effects group ADI to design the perfect creature for Prey. The Predator's design has gone through a plethora of variations and evolutions throughout the franchise. It really helped us in not only crafting our creature but just, in general, helping the movie." "We were lucky to have them not because they are some of the greatest creature artists in the history of movies, but also their history with the Predator franchise meant they had a bible of at least all of the ones they had worked on. We were flying blind enough on our own fandom, myself and the writer Patrick Aison, until we linked up with ADI, who did tremendous work in this movie," said Trachtenberg. "Being completely honest, the first was 'Cool! When do I get the bible? When do I get all of the history of everything?' It does not exist.
Director Dan Trachtenberg discussed how in the dark the creative team was when starting work on Prey.
With various installments already pitting the Predator against Xenomorphs, Schwarzenegger, and tons of red shirts, taking the helm on a new entry in the ever-growing Predator narrative is no easy feat.
To celebrate the film's release on Hulu, we spoke with the cast and creative team behind Prey about all things Predator. Set in the world of the Comanche Nation 300 years ago, the film follows a female warrior named Naru (Amber Midthunder) who finds herself within the sights of a deadly Predator creature deployed near her tribe. Dan Trachtenberg ( 10 Cloverfield Lane) helms the film as director, working off a script penned by Patrick Aison ( Wayward Pines). Our favorite space hunter is back in Prey, a brand new prequel film set in the Predator universe.
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