Standalone spinoff movies such as Prey are the future of the Predator franchise.
SoPreyhas managed to do whatfiveprevious attempts at aPredatorsequel have failed at.
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The sequels tried various ways to repeat this trick.
Even so, the idea at their core was a good one.
After all,Alien vs. Predatordidnt start out as two bad movies.
Long before that, it was a comic book, a novel, and a video game series.
And it is a format that has been happily replicated elsewhere.Predator vs. Judge Dredd.Batman vs. Predator.Aliens vs.
The Terminator.And of course,Archie vs. WherePreysstroke of genius came was to bring that versus to history.
It is not glamorized or exoticized; it is just how she lives.
And the Predator is not the only threat she and her community face.
That is becausetheywere skinned by white colonists.
One of the first things we see Naru do is examine one of the French fur trappers bear traps.
Seeing her pick it apart works as a microcosm of how she will approach the Predator.
The fan filmPredator: Dark Agessees the Predator go up against a medieval knight.
And it is a trick you’ve got the option to pull over and over again.
The Spanish Inquisition vs.
Predators arriving on prehistoric Earth and duking it out with T-Rexes!
Except, at the same time asPreyintroduces this shining bauble of an endless historicalPredatoranthology, it snatches it away.
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InPrey, this Predator very clearly has no such foreknowledge.
It kills and skins a snake in case that is our planets apex predator.
Then it does the same to a wolf.
Now does that necessarily mean that there couldnt have beenotherPredators that stumbled across Earth?
Maybe they came and got killed or ran away and didnt tell their mates about us.
That certainly exists as a storytelling possibility.
It might not surprise you to know that humanity has done a lot of violence in those 300 years.
