Photos From Indie Sci-Fi Flick Hunter Prey

[GreenScar]

Maybe this is what the Sci-Fi Genre needs; a cool Indie flick! Check out the pics:









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How about a few more awesome photos today from another great indie sci-fi project? Our friends at io9 have the first look at a film called Hunter Prey being made by up-and-coming filmmaker Sandy Collora. That isn't a CGI suit of armor above - it's entirely real. Way back in 2003, before Batman Begins had ever hit theaters, Collora made a controversial fan film titled Batman: Dead End that premiered at Comic-Con (watch it online). It became an overnight sensation but before long, he encountered legal problems bigger than he could handle (and ended up getting a book written about them). Now Collora is back with an indie sci-fi project titled Hunter Prey that looks absolutely fantastic - as you can probably tell.

Hunter Prey 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. As Collora himself explains, "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." Collora already finished shooting this on a shoestring budget down in Mexico and is currently in post-production, putting on the finishing touches like a computer system voiceover and visual effects.

Those three photos above come from the extensive interview that io9 recently did with Collora. In it, he explains that the film is a lot like James Cameron's Terminator, where it's "a very small piece of a much larger picture." He continues, "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." It's a very fascinating interview about the struggles of budding filmmakers like Collora.

[J_UNTITLED]

One wonders why the majority of sci-fi films always have to be these big wannabe-spectacles about wars, battles or all-round big explosions. The narrow-mindedess of the business is to blame mostly, I suppose.

[GreenScar]

The genre is limping. There just isn't much Sci-Fi product released anymore. They've got to do what's profitable. If it ever becomes more mainstream again we may get different risk taking stories.

[J_UNTITLED]

Originally Posted by jasonbird

The genre is limping. There just isn't much Sci-Fi product released anymore. They've got to do what's profitable. If it ever becomes more mainstream again we may get different risk taking stories.

I think part of the problem is that when the genre does become more mainstream or "in vogue" then there is even less chance for filmmakers to take risks and make unique or original sci-fi material as most will just try to blatantly copy or emulate what breakout success had just came before.

[GreenScar]

You're probably right. I really doubt that the Sci-Fi genre will produce more than 2 or 3 flicks a year (4 in a good year). Western's are in the same boat.

[GreenScar]

Anyone interested in a new Sci Fi take?

[Brandon]

That does sound & look very cool, and hopefully will inject some new blood into the genre.

[GreenScar]

Poster and teaser trailer is out. Click on the poster to head over to see the teaser. What do you think?

[Toxa]

as a huge fan of Batman Dead End I can't wait for this movie the trailer looks decent

Official trailer on youtube :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBmc1ZdpkEM

Official Website :

http://www.hunterpreythemovie.com/

[Paul Kersey]

Sounds like a better version of Enemy Mine
Although I'm wondering how "subtle" the political and environmental overtones actually are.
The only reason that stuff works in Phillip K Dick and George Orwell's stuff is because they picked topics that will always be an issue regardless of how topical they are; drugs, privacy, control
This environmental thing just comes off as a fad to me
But, what can I say? I'm cynical.

[Paul Kersey]

Originally Posted by GreenScar

You're probably right. I really doubt that the Sci-Fi genre will produce more than 2 or 3 flicks a year (4 in a good year). Western's are in the same boat.

Any niche audience movie is going to be like that.
Real SF is a niche thing
Westerns are, too.
Besides, think of all the over-saturation of really bad westerns that were cranked-out in the 1940's and 1950's when the fad was high
I'd rather a few good stories than a bunch of crap