But when Naru, who at times suggests the Cherokee warrior Nanye-hi as played by Olivia Rodrigo, looks up to see a fiery spacecraft, it’s clear she’s going to need all her training and more.
“Because you all think I can’t!” comes the 18th-century girl-power reply. “Why do you want to hunt?” asks Naru’s mother. She has a rivalrous relationship with her brother, Taabe (Dakota Beavers), that plays out over the course of the movie. For a while we could almost be watching a historical Disney fable about a warrior who comes of age, as Naru, in her black eye-mask face paint and fringed buckskin, trains herself in how to rock a crossbow and toss a tomahawk. Visually, the movie is all vibrant green woods, mountain vistas and sunlit meadows. The actors in “Prey” consist almost entirely of Native and First Nation’s talent, marking the film as a step forward in Indigenous casting.
Now, in an act of recycling you might think of as Hollywood composting, the Predator is back - in a movie set in the Comanche Nation in 1719, where Naru (Amber Midthunder), a fiery young woman consumed with proving herself as a hunter, stands up against the male leaders of her tribe in order to rid the Northern Great Plains of a malevolent otherworldly visitor.
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