Still No Word On Highly Anticipated Sci-Fi Film ‘Hunter Prey’
One of the most eagerly awaited but largely forgotten sci-fi flicks of 2009 is Hunter Prey, an independent film from NBV Productions.
Hunter Prey, which runs by the working title AKA, is the first original feature film from writer/director Sandy Collora. Collora became an overnight sensation in 2003 with the release of his independent Aliens vs Predator vs Joker vs Batman film, Batman: Dead End, and whilst his work on this film blew up a legal storm, it also built him an army of impressed fans. Once he released the first images from Hunter Prey (as seen throughout this article) the film shot into many peoples favorite lists for 2009.
What his Hunter Prey about? That was a question asked almost half a year ago by Annalee Newitz over at io9 during an interview with Sandy Collora in which he replied:
At its core, this is a picture about survival. Being able to adapt to your surroundings and persevere, to survive at all costs and prevail against incredible odds to complete an objective. That’s something that I’ve had some experience dealing with in my own life and career, so there were a lot of personal feelings and emotions to draw from. The film centers around a crew of special forces commandos who must recapture an alien prisoner that has escaped after the military transport ship carrying it crashes on a desolate and hostile planet. There are subtle political and environmental overtones that I certainly don’t hit anyone over the head with at all, but that will hopefully make you think about things like war, politics and current events, by presenting them in situations cinematically from a uniquely different perspective. That’s one of the great things about Science Fiction; You can tell the audience something in a very unique way by using the guise of a futuristic world or society that can reflect our own.
The film, very much like the approach Jim Cameron took with “The Terminator”, is a very small piece of a much larger picture. It concentrates on how the bigger situation (which in this case, is interplanetary war) is affecting the two main characters, who are now separated from it, and how they relate and react to their situation and each other as a result of it. As the story unfolds and more things are revealed about the characters and what their relationship is, we had to create in a sense, what we could not show. This was a very interesting challenge not only for co-writer Nick Damon and myself, but for the actors as well because through their performances and the dialogue, they had to build in the audience’s imagination, what we couldn’t afford to actually build on screen.
Although interest in Hunter Prey has been high, the production has been strangely quiet. It was scheduled to be released this month but clearly the goal posts have now shifted. I’ve heard some people mention their concern that the film may never see the light of day, but my guess is we’re only looking at a delay. Collora is booked to attend the MONSTERPALOOZA, a 3 day event taking place at the Burbank Airport Marriott Hotel dedicated to the art & FX of monsters. The event takes place over 3 days from May 29-31 and there’s been no change to any publicity surrounding the event related to Hunter Prey’s ‘coming soon’ status. As far as I’m concerned that’s a good sign, so it seems we’ll just have to wait.
Why have I posted this article if there’s no real updated news surrounding the project? Because I like many others are keen to see this movie, and maybe a little ‘bump’ will generate the update so many fans want to hear.
In the meantime, if you haven’t seen Collora’s cult Batman movie, do yourself a favor:
Batman: Dead End
March 7th, 2010 at 4:21 am
Alter äh, voll geil die Möhre aufschlitzen äh