Shot in roughly the same area that Alejandro González Iñárritu filmed much of The Revenant-and similarly reliant on natural light for most scenes- Prey has an elemental and deliberately antiquated aesthetic. They were, after all, about to make the first good Predator movie in nearly 40 years-and perhaps more importantly a movie that took Indigenous and First People’s experiences seriously.įilming in the Stoney Nakoda Nation, which is located near Calgary in Canada, Prey looks far removed from our modern expectations for Hollywood franchises. It was a private blessing on the production it was also the beginning of a journey for Trachtenberg’s team. “It was just in an office, and it was a very moving experience where everyone approached the elders and had very specific secret things happen that not everyone could hear. “It was profound in that it wasn’t out in the camp we had set up,” Trachtenberg explains to Den of Geek. Rather than occurring out on location, and in the wilderness where much of his upcoming Predator reimagining, Prey, takes place, it was during the day before principal photography started on Stoney Nakoda Nation lands that a small group of filmmakers were invited to participate in a ritual with local Indigenous leaders. The first tribal pipe ceremony that filmmaker Dan Trachtenberg participated in took him by surprise.
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