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 concentrate on a Comanche lady named Naru, and it took off massive with audiences. Not solely was it graced with a physical release final yr after it initially launched on Hulu, it’s now change into the kickoff level for what feels like a bigger Predator revival.
As a substitute of selecting up with Naru’s story, the subsequent Predator film is Badlands, which is alleged to be set someplace sooner or later. Whereas there aren’t any plot particulars for the time being, 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 increase some attention-grabbing possiblities for future films on this collection. In idea, there’s nothing stopping twentieth Century from having the Predators (or Yautja) bounce round varied 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 people’ minds, individuals bought to wishing up different locations it’d be theoretically enjoyable to drop the Predator into. That’s what we wish 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 throughout 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 beneath.
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