It’s being produced by a Native American, and has a almost entirely Native American cast.
I think the guy in the monster suit is the only non-native on screen.
So on that front I would definitely expect it to be better.
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I enjoyed the first one immensely, but I loved Predator 2 for two reasons - first, you got a lot more backstory to the villain and secondly, said villain wasn’t up against some muscled superhero type.
Made it a little more believable.
(In the invisible-nine-foot-hunters-from-space-with-lasers form of believable, natch.)
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Even Bruce Wayne fought the pesky aliens.
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OK, so that first map, where it talks about the Quivira people and it explores into the SW part of Kansas - Spaniards also explored the South Central part of Kansas, around the Arkansas River and around were Arkansas City is today. At the last Tribal meeting I went to, we had a professor from Wichita State give a talk about his archeological findings and reviewing the Spanish documents chronicling their exploration into the area.
There was a MASSIVE settlement in that area called Etzanoa with 20,000 people of the Wichita tribe. They had basically a commercialized bison harvesting and processing economy. They would have huge hunts with thousands of people basically corralling, encircling, and slaughtering thousands of bison at a time. They didn’t have cliffs to drive them off like up north, so they had to use different methods. But they would take out hundreds at a time, and systematically process them. They would use skins and bones for tools and training. The meat they would preserve as Pemmican.
There was a battle in the area with the Spaniards, and they were able to pin point where it took place, finding steel cannon shot and a few artifacts left by the Spaniards. They have only scratched the surface of exploring the other archeological finds. They have found lots of trash pits and even whole storage pits that were abandoned/filled. Really neat stuff and I am forgetting a lot of it.
Ah, Jhane Myers? So she should keep things “realistic” in Native portrayal, at least.
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I liked the cross over with Scooby Do. Who knew that Shaggy & Velma were such beasts? Stone killers. A shame about Fred.
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Still, it would be kind of refreshing to see a film about indigenous Americans which didn’t define them in terms of their relationship to/struggle against European colonization.
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That looks fantastic.
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Isn’t Hulu the equivalent of Straight to Video?
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I have a feeling this is one of those bogus teasers where the snippet they show is about the entirety of that “story” in the movie. So the movie will have about 1 min 15 secs of Native Americans dealing with the Predator and it will just bounce to some other era. A mini backstory within a backstory.
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Arkham Asylum, where they always escape from. Doesn’t Wayne Enterprises own any private supermax prisons?
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i didn’t know that. that rocks!
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( of course! where do you think all that money comes from? arkham is just a way for the rest of the wayne family to keep bruce busy. )
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I’m not going to lie: that premise makes me laugh and I would LOVE to see it. 
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Lotta newcomers and American performers as well, which is nice to see. There’s a tendency for American productions to just go with already established Canadian performers, since they have resumes from Canada’s better funding for Native art.
So it’s real promising on this front.
Producer Jhane Myers is actually Comanche, and has done a lot of work as a cultural and language advisor for mainstream films. So it’s not just “Comaches are badasses!” stereotypes behind that choice.
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Maybe, but the 4 of the 5 top actors listed on IMDB are all Native. So it is either a period piece or modern Natives dealing with something that their ancestors fought.
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So remember in Predator, the character Billy, played by Sonny Landham? Before they understand what is hunting them, Billy seems to have an understanding what they are facing isn’t human. Is it just instinct or gut feeling? Is there some legend his grandmother told him when he was little to make him behave now coming to life? Something in the past that still resides in cultural memory?
I guess we will see.
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If nothing else it sounds like a step up from when Disney wanted to cast Johnny Depp as Tonto the Comanche so they just donated some money to the American Indian College Fund in the hopes no one would raise a ruckus about it.
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Pretty remarkable that they more or less got away with that. As flawed as the old TV show was, they did at least cast an actual Native American (Jay Silverheels) in the role, and he looked like a real human being rather than a weirdo with a dead bird on his head. How do you make a film featuring Native American characters with less sensitivity than they did in the 1950s?
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I mean the movie bombed, they got a hell of a lot of bad press out of it. And Depp is still regularly criticized for it.
All kind of eclipsed by the whole “Armie Hammer is an actual sex cannibal” thing these days tho.
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It looks interesting. If they focus on the proper horror element of the predator being that unstoppable force that has no care or mercy then I think they can pull it off. Especially if they don’t reveal it until the final act.
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