Prey (2022) Biography, Plot, Filming, Release
Prey (2022)
Including the crossover movies, of the Predator franchise. The story takes place chronologically before the previous movies and serves as a prequel, as it is set in the Northern Great Plains in 1719. It stars Amber Midthunder, Dakota Beavers, Dane DiLiegro, Michelle Thrush, Stormee Kipp, Julian Black Antelope, and Bennett Taylor. The story revolves around a young Comanche woman, Naru, who is striving to prove herself as a hunter.
Plot:
In 1719, in the Great Plains, Naru, a young Comanche woman trained as a healer, dreams of becoming a great hunter like her brother Taabe. While tracking deer she witnesses strange lights in the sky, which she believes to be a thunderbird and a sign she is ready to become a hunter, but is actually the dropship for an alien hunter. Later, Puhi, a tribe warrior, is taken by a cougar. Naru accompanies the search party, which tracks and finds Puhi near death. She tends Puhi’s wounds and gives him an orange totsiyaa herb, which lowers his body temperature to slow his bleeding.
Naru returns with the search party and Puhi while Taabe stays
behind to hunt the cougar. Finding large, unusual tracks and a skinned rattlesnake, Naru circles back with Paake and reunites with Taabe. The three set a trap for the cougar, but the cougar kills Paake.
Naru faces off with the cougar but is knocked unconscious when she is distracted by a loud roar and lights in the distance. She awakens at home, having been carried back by Taabe.
Filming:
Filming began in June 2021 in Calgary, Alberta primarily in Stoney Nakoda First Nation land 45 minutes outside the city, with studio set pieces including the beaver dam where the protagonist Naru hides from a bear and the fur trapper camp where she baits the Predator. Additional locations include Moose Mountain and Elbow River. Describing filming near Calgary, Myers stated, “We were shooting on Stoney Nakoda land. [Midthunder] is part Nakoda, even I am on my grandmother’s side. Usually, when we start a production, someone [from the Native community] comes in and does a cedar ceremony and blesses everything.RELATED:
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