Aboard their spaceship, just before they fly off, one of them throws the pistol to LAPD Lieutenant Mike Harrigan, played by Danny Glover, perhaps as a sign of respect. To recap, Predator 2 ends with the arrival of a group of Predators coming to collect their dead. The same pistol, here held by Danny Glover at the end of Predator 2. Once she returns to her tribe, bloody and triumphant after vanquishing the Predator, a close-up shot reveals that it’s the same weapon seen at the end of Predator 2, set 278 years later in the Los Angeles of 1997. During her escape, she finds a pistol which she’s taught to use by one of the injured hunters. In Prey, Naru escapes a party of Frenchmen who have set up hunting grounds on her lands. It isn’t until the very end of the film that we glimpse our first and only real Easter egg: a flintlock pistol engraved with the words Raphael Adolini 1715, hinting at an entire potential timeline leading up to 1990’s Predator 2. But for most of its running time, Prey sticks to its own hunting territory, setting its story in the Northern Great Plains in the early 18th century, where a young Comanche woman named Naru (Amber Midthunder) faces off against one of the intergalactic visitors who’ve been hunting humans for centuries. We do get a callback to the iconic line, “If it bleeds, we can kill it,” first uttered by Arnold Schwarzenegger in John McTiernan’s 1987 original. Dan Trachtenberg’s new Predator prequel, Prey, pulls off a rarity in today’s movie-franchise landscape: It avoids taking a torch to the series’s established continuity, while also sidestepping an overreliance on it.
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