The director of “Prey” explains a major change in the Predator movie

The new movie “Prey” is now available on Disney +, starring Amber Midthunder and set 300 years before Arnold Schwarzenegger’s delivery. And those who could already see it, have noticed some changes in the alien and, for this, director Dan Trachtenberg explains the reasons.

During the ‘Predator’ saga, aliens, or also known as Yautja, brought various technologies, weapons and, of course, armor to face their victims. It’s at ‘Prey’, director Dan Trachtenberg decided to go back in time imagine a new version of the hunter.

In an interview for the magazine Empiredirector Dan Trachtenberg explained why the plasma launcher does not appear ‘Prey’, one of the best-known weapons of the saga, but which put the protagonists, members of a Comanche tribe in the United States, at a greater disadvantage.

The first thing he wanted to remove was the plasma launcher. Just because it looked a lot like an instant win button. I wanted to make sure the fight could be as exciting as possible without taking away its advantages. ”

And it is that many have noticed in ‘Prey’ the Predator is much more primitive compared to that of modern episodes: “He does not have all the tools he has in more recent films. But it has great new gadgets that people can see, ”explained Dan Trachtenberg.

‘Prey’ and respect for the entire ‘Predator’ saga

The director, who hails from ’10 Cloverfield Lane ‘and has worked on series such as’ The Boys’ or’ Black Mirror ‘, explained more about the changes in Predator’s design: “It was about offering something new, but without change it too much. In the iteration stage with the people who worked on the development of the suit, I really said: let’s push it. First let’s break it down and see what the design looks like when we change it so it doesn’t look like a Predator and then do a step back “.

“He didn’t want us to think: Oh, a change in the eyebrow here… A change in the jaw… I wanted it to feel like this was an exciting new face to look at. One of the things that made the first film so special, at least in the way I remember seeing it for the first time, was that I thought the Predator was what he looked like wearing his biological mask. That’s the predator. That’s it, ”concluded Trachtenberg.

Right now ‘Prey’, the new film in the ‘Predator’ saga, is already available since last August 5 via Hulu in the United States, while in Latin America it was distributed by Star +, and in Spain and the rest of the world. from the Disney + service.