{"id":19744,"date":"2022-08-04T13:02:10","date_gmt":"2022-08-04T11:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=1690565"},"modified":"2022-08-04T13:28:10","modified_gmt":"2022-08-04T11:28:10","slug":"how-is-prey-connected-to-predator-timeline-explained","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/how-is-prey-connected-to-predator-timeline-explained\/","title":{"rendered":"How is Prey connected to Predator? Timeline explained"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Patrick Cremona\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Thursday, 04 August 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p>

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For the first stretch of Prey<\/a> \u2013 the new film from 10 Cloverfield Director Dan Trachtenberg \u2013 you\u2019d be forgiven for not realising that it was in any way connected to the Predator franchise.<\/p>\n

The film\u2019s setting, in the Comanche Nation tribe in 1719, is quite unlike any previous entry in the series \u2013 and it\u2019s only when the iconic alien hunter rears its famously ugly head that it becomes clear this is very much a franchise film.<\/p>\n

But how does the prequel actually connect to the other films in the series?<\/p>

Well, the honest answer is that aside from a few nods \u2013 and of course the presence of the beast itself \u2013 the film does not largely concern itself with much franchise mythology.<\/p>\n

We know that this is the one of the first visits of the vicious extraterrestrial species and that it took place almost 300 years before the famous encounter with Arnold Schwarzenegger\u2019s Major Alan \u201cDutch\u201d Schaefer, but the film doesn\u2019t necessarily aim to explore how things developed between those two battles.<\/p>\n

Regardless, given the time period between the two films, one of the key duties for production was in ensuring that this seemed like a slightly less developed version of the Predator than the one Arnie famously dispatched.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThere was a very tricky balance in needing to make this movie feel like it\u2019s 300 years prior to the original, but also still feeling like it\u2019s very technologically advanced,\u201d explained Trachtenberg.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey devised this bone mask that feels more ancient and archaic and more brutal, but still interweaving organic and tact to feel cool and imposing.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Meanwhile, one nod that does specifically link back to a later Predator film concerns the pistol that lead character Naru (Amber Midthunder) picks up during her adventure.<\/p>\n

When she returns to her tribe having defeated the Predator, we discover that this weapon bears the name Raphael Adolini \u2013 making it the very same pistol that was handed to Danny Glover\u2019s Lieutenant Mike Harrigan at the end of Predator 2.<\/p>\n

And while the plot might not contain that many other overt links to the other films, there are scenes and lines of dialogue which deliberately recall previous moments in the franchise, something which Trachtenberg spoke about in an exclusive interview with RadioTimes.com.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a lot of fun having this movie have an interaction with fans of the franchise,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cObviously the mud pit sequence has an interaction layer there, there are other things that a number of our characters say that are very relevant to what they\u2019re experiencing \u2013 and you wouldn\u2019t know that they are allusions to previous moments in the franchise, but if you\u2019re a diehard fan, you will recognise them.\u201d<\/p>\n

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