Yes, the headline might seem a bit ridiculous, but that’s exactly what happened. In conversation with The Hollywood Reporter, Dan Trachtenbergdirector of Predator: The preyconfessed that his film It is based on a scene from the predator Original (with Arnold Schwarzenegger) that doesn’t even existand. We will explain it to you in a way that makes sense.
When, according to the filmmaker predator Seeing the light of day in 1987, he wasn’t of the right age to see a film suitable for adults. You will surely remember that the film created by Jim and John Thomas has quite a lot of purple scenes.
However, the above did not prevent Trachtenberg from knowing what is happening in the film. how did he do that? Listen to his colleagues talk about it. “He was in third grade when he came out predator and I wasn’t allowed to watch R-rated movies. So when I was in the back of a car heading to a karate tournament with all those sixth graders I just saw predatorThey spent the whole trip telling me the whole movie,” he said.
However, the problem is that his classmates told him a half-truth. “I vividly remembered them saying there was a scene where Billy the Native American was standing on a bridge over a waterfall fighting Predator.”
If you have a good memory, the alarms must have gone off by now. Although it is true that there is a scene where Billy (Sonny Landham) stands on a bridge – log – ready to face the alien creature, the confrontation is never seen. Of course we suspect that he put up some resistance and was later killed. In fact, his colleagues hear his horrific cry of pain from afar. You can relive the moment in the following video:
Later, when Trachtenberg had the opportunity to see predatorrealized that the scene related by his companions does not exist as such. This did not prevent him from using the scene he imagined as a child as the basis for his creation Predator: The prey.
“When I finally saw the film, that scene was gone. The beginning was, but then it breaks off. So the seed was planted and I thought, ‘Wouldn’t it be great to have a film that focuses on the story of this character?’ Booty It’s not exactly that, but it’s spiritual.”
Without a doubt, a very curious anecdote that is worth telling now Predator: The prey It’s on the lips of so many people. Certainly the franchise had run out of steam after the deliveries released after the original; without forgetting that crossing With extraterrestrial that didn’t work either.
But against all odds, Predator: The prey It turned out to be a very good film. The idea of facing the creature again in an environment surrounded by nature and with characters whose tools — apparently — have nothing to do with alien technology made the franchise possible get back to basics this allowed him to be successful in the 1980s.