First Look: Sandy Collora’s Hunter Prey

November 18, 2008 Written by Nix

Well slap me silly and call me Sally, if these first pics from Sandy Collora’s new movie “Hunter Prey” doesn’t look all kinds of kickass cool, then you just don’t have any taste, because these things look insanely cool. But wait, who is Sandy Collora, you ask? Well, if you’ve seen the Batman short film “Batman: Dead End”, then you know the name. He’s the guy who single-handedly made fan movies respectable when he came out with a Batman versus Predator (and then later, Aliens) in 2003, all of it shot with fantastic production values and killer visuals. Sandy’s back with his first feature-length movie, the sci-fi actioner “Hunter Prey”.

The boys over at I09 has an interview with Collora about his upcoming movie. Here’s what the director had to say about “Hunter Prey”:

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.

I really can’t say or reveal much more than that, because It’s got a few things that audiences will definitely not see coming and some twists and turns that I don’t want to spoil. You’ll just have to go see it to find out what those are.

You can read the rest of the interview over at I09. Meanwhile, here are some great pics from the movie. Collora wouldn’t say when they would finish the movie, only, “Soon!”