Prey

The Great Plains, 1719. Naru, a young Comanche trained as a healer, wants to prove she's a hunter like her brother Taabe. She sees lights in the sky and starts finding signs of something that hunts for sport: a newly arrived Predator. Nobody believes her. French trappers capture Naru and Taabe and use them as bait, but the creature slaughters the camp. Before he dies, interpreter Raphael Adolini teaches Naru to fire his pistol. She also learns of an herb that cools the body and hides her from thermal vision. Taabe is killed in the fight. Naru lures the Predator into a bog and turns its own mask against it, so it shoots itself. She returns to her tribe with the monster's head and warns them: it's time to move.

• Mid-credits During the credits, Naru's story is retold in Plains ledger-art style paintings. The last image shows Predator ships descending on the Comanche camp.

1. SetupRaphael Adolini's pistol

   The Italian translator teaches Naru to use a flintlock pistol engraved "Raphael Adolini 1715". Remember that name: it comes back later in the saga.

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2. Behind the scenesA whole movie dubbed in Comanche

   The cast came back to record a full Comanche-language version, the first feature film dubbed in that language. Both versions are on streaming.

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3. Behind the scenesHorses, at the producer's insistence

   Producer Jhane Myers, of the Comanche and Blackfeet Nations, brought binders of reference material to set and insisted on horses: "We're a horse culture." You can see it in Taabe.

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