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Prey 2 & Future Sequel Plans Teased By Director
Prey director Dan Trachtenberg teases his potential Prey 2 and future sequel plans for the franchise. Trachtenberg developed Prey's story with screenwriter Patrick Aison and helmed the film, which stars Amber Midthunder as a Comanche warrior who must face the invading threat of a Predator in her lands. Prey is set 300 years prior to the first Predator film and serves as an origin of sorts, as it's the first time a Predator has visited Earth.
The ending of Prey sees Midthunder's Naru victorious in her battle with the Predator, leading to an animated end-credits sequence that's recreated in Native American hide paintings. The animated sequence primarily retells the film's story, but also leaves audiences with a bigger tease by showing approaching Predator ships as Naru's Comanche tribe spots them in the sky. This small tease has led Prey fans to speculate on what could potentially come next for the Predator franchise, and now Trachtenberg has spoken up about his approach to the sequence and how far ahead he's planned the series.
While talking to THR, Trachtenberg is asked about the animated end-title sequence, saying that he initially looked very far ahead, well beyond Prey's ending to see where the story goes. However, Trachtenberg stopped short of getting too invested in that aspect in order to remain focused on telling the best story he could with Prey first. Here's what the Prey director had to say about his approach, which teases a big plan for how far the story could go:
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The nerd in me looked that far ahead, as far as he could look, before we started writing this movie, but the adult in me said, “Don’t count your chickens and just be careful. Try and make the best movie possible, straight away.” End-credit sequence aside, there is something refreshing about seeing a movie that is not really intended to be just a part one to something else. There’s something nice about seeing a complete thought. On the complete other hand, I love that what would’ve been a post-credit scene in other movies, is an animated end-title sequence in our movie. Our end titles are still storytelling.
While no sequel to the film has been announced thus far, Prey is already the biggest premiere on Hulu to date, meaning that there's sure to be talks of a follow-up. Beyond its viewership numbers, Prey is also the best-reviewed Predator movie. There has been a lot of interest in the film's stripped-down way of approaching the franchise, and based on Trachtenberg's new comments, it's clear there is more that can be done here. Trachtenberg has some ideas, and now that he has already sold viewers on a new kind of Predator movie, he can finally dive back into those ideas he began to develop early on. This is assuming Prey 2 gets the green light, but the odds seem good.
One of Prey's many strengths is that not only does it pave the way for sequels that follow Naru's story, but it opens up the Predator franchise to fill in the gap of 300 years leading up to the first film. This gives the franchise a whole new lease on storytelling, which could potentially show the Predator encountering many different people, civilizations, time periods, and significant events throughout that span of history. While it would be cool to see Naru's journey in Prey continue, facing whatever Trachtenberg has planned beyond the first film, it would be just as cool to see the Predator jump through history in all manner of settings.
