After being placed on ice with 2018’s The Predator, the sci-fi horror franchise got here again to life with Prey. The 2022 film wound again the clock to 1719 within the Nice Plains to deal with a Comanche girl named Naru, and it took off huge with audiences. Not solely was it graced with a physical release final 12 months after it initially launched on Hulu, it’s now turn into the kickoff level for what appears like a bigger Predator revival.
As an alternative of choosing up with Naru’s story, the following Predator film is Badlands, which is alleged to be set someplace sooner or later. Whereas there aren’t any plot particulars in the mean time, the movie’s title (and it being a standalone) suggests a possible western. Whether or not or not that’s the precise case, it does elevate some attention-grabbing possiblities for future films on this collection. In principle, there’s nothing stopping twentieth Century from having the Predators (or Yautja) bounce round numerous factors in Eath’s hsitory to attempt to show they’re the strongest, after which ultimately get beat by period-appropriate human ingenuity.
A part of why Prey took off within the first place was as a result of it actually did embrace the time interval it was set in. And after it got here out and blew of us’ minds, individuals acquired to wishing up different locations it’d be theoretically enjoyable to drop the Predator into. That’s what we need to know for this weekend’s Open Channel: you get free reign to make a Predator film, what’s the setting and time interval? Personally, I’d prefer to put him in a highschool through the 90s or 2000s the place he simply can’t get a learn on how teenage hierarchy works. Tell us your Predator idea within the feedback under.
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