Yes, the headline may seem a bit ridiculous, but that’s exactly what happened. In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Dan Trachtenbergdirector of Predator: The Preyconfessed that your movie It is based on a scene from the predator original (with Arnold Schwarzenegger) that doesn’t even existand. We are going to explain it to you so that it makes sense.
According to the filmmaker, when predator saw the light in the distant 1987, he was not the right age to see a film rated for adults. You will surely remember that the film created by Jim and John Thomas has quite a few purple scenes.
However, the above did not prevent Trachtenberg from knowing what happens in the film. How did he do it? Listening 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 on the way to a karate tournament with all the sixth graders who had just seen predatorthey spent the whole trip telling me the whole movie,” he said.
The problem, however, is that his classmates told him a half-truth. “I vividly remembered that they said there was a scene where Billy the Native American was standing on a bridge over a waterfall and fighting Predator.”
If you have a good memory, surely the alarms have already gone off. Although it is true that there is a scene where Billy (Sonny Landham) is standing on a bridge —log— ready to confront the alien creature, the confrontation is never seen. Of course, we intuit that he put up some resistance and was later killed. In fact, his colleagues hear his bloodcurdling 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 that his companions told does not exist as such. This did not prevent the scene he imagined as a child from serving as the basis for creating Predator: The Prey.
“When I finally saw the movie, that scene was gone. The beginning was, but then it cuts off. So the seed was planted and I thought, ‘Wouldn’t it be amazing to have a movie that focuses on that character’s story?’ Prey It’s not exactly that, but it is spiritually.”
Without a doubt, a very curious anecdote that is worth telling now that Predator: The Prey It is on the lips of so many people. Certainly, the franchise had run out of steam after the deliveries that were released after the original; without forgetting the crossover with Alien that didn’t work either.
However, against all odds, Predator: The Prey It turned out to be a very good movie. The idea of facing the creature again in an environment surrounded by nature, and with characters whose tools have nothing to do —apparently— against alien technology, allowed the franchise to get back to basics that allowed him to succeed in the eighties.