'PREY' To Have World Premier At Comic Con!
After what seemed like longer than two years, Comic Con International In San Diego will be back in less than 2 weeks time. A film that we’ve been covering for awhile here at MD is of course ‘PREY’, the film that will be a prequel of sorts for the Predator franchise and today we have learned it will premier during SDCC!
Today, Collider shared that Prey, the latest installment in the Predator franchise, will be having its world premiere at the upcoming con. In addition to screening the prequel, the event will also feature a Q&A with director Dan Trachtenberg who is best known for helming 10 Cloverfield Lane.
The world premiere of Prey will take place on Thursday, July 21st at 8:30 PM in San Diego and the Q&A is also expected to feature Amber Midthunder (Naru), Dakota Beavers (Taabe), Dane DiLiegro (The Predator), and producer Jhane Myers. Collider points out that since Prey is going straight to Hulu, the SDCC screening will most likely be the only chance for fans to see the film on a big screen.
The film is already set to be a very different Predator flick from what Trachtenberg has said in past interviews.
"There was so many moments where we were almost seduced by putting in more and more easter eggs," the filmmaker said in a recent spotlight in Empire Magazine. "'Get to the chopper!' is not in this movie despite so many people wondering, 'what if there was a horse named Chopper?' We didn't go all the way there, though there are tons of intentional and unintentional nods to the first movie."
"What's funny is in the trailer, there's a sequence in the tall grass. And I remember going over to one of our actors, Harlan [Blayne Kytwayhat], who plays Itsee in the movie. He's the one who pulls Amber down into the grass. And he has to tell her to be quiet," Trachtenberg added. "And I said, 'I think it wants to feel like you don't freak out. There was a line or something, but I said, just go, 'Ssh.' Just hold up your finger. I watched the take back, turned the cinematographer, and said, 'this feels familiar, I think.' And he goes, 'yeah, Predator.' And I was like, Oh, yeah...' Obviously, that movie is ingrained in my brain."
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