Posted on Aug 12, 2022
How a Grammy-winning Pueblo musician influenced the soundtrack for 'Prey'
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A lot of franchise gunk and mythology has built up around the 1987 action flick, Predator — which featured Arnold Schwarzenegger and other he-men battling a vicious game hunter from outer space boasting thermal vision, a cloaking device, and big, nasty mandibles.
Prey, a new movie streaming on Hulu, stripped most of that plaque off and went back in time for an origin story, plopping the predator into the bucolic world of the Comanche people 300 years ago before the real-life invasion of alien colonists from Europe.
Prey's director Dan Trachtenberg, and producer Jhane Myers — a Comanche and Blackfeet American Indian herself — filled the cast with Native actors and even recorded a Comanche language dub. But Trachtenberg is also a gamer, and for the film's score he sought out a non-Native videogame composer he admired.
"He had been playing Assassin's Creed: Valhalla while they were in production on the film, and he really liked what he heard," says composer Sarah Schachner.
A lot of franchise gunk and mythology has built up around the 1987 action flick, Predator — which featured Arnold Schwarzenegger and other he-men battling a vicious game hunter from outer space boasting thermal vision, a cloaking device, and big, nasty mandibles.
Prey, a new movie streaming on Hulu, stripped most of that plaque off and went back in time for an origin story, plopping the predator into the bucolic world of the Comanche people 300 years ago before the real-life invasion of alien colonists from Europe.
Prey's director Dan Trachtenberg, and producer Jhane Myers — a Comanche and Blackfeet American Indian herself — filled the cast with Native actors and even recorded a Comanche language dub. But Trachtenberg is also a gamer, and for the film's score he sought out a non-Native videogame composer he admired.
"He had been playing Assassin's Creed: Valhalla while they were in production on the film, and he really liked what he heard," says composer Sarah Schachner.
How a Grammy-winning Pueblo musician influenced the soundtrack for 'Prey'
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..."At the end of their one-day, remote recording session, she asked Mirabal if he also sang.
"And he was like, 'Yeah, I sing' — and he just sang something so honest and pure," she says. "It touched me when he sung it, and it was so unplanned. And it really just helped in certain moments of the film, give that kind of extra layer of depth."
"It's almost as if you're whispering the story," Mirabal says of creating music for film. "There's a visual aspect to it, but then there's a whole other mystical side of the story that is whispered to you through music."
So in this movie about a high-tech humanoid that dismembers its victims, listen for that whisper. In between all the screaming."
..."At the end of their one-day, remote recording session, she asked Mirabal if he also sang.
"And he was like, 'Yeah, I sing' — and he just sang something so honest and pure," she says. "It touched me when he sung it, and it was so unplanned. And it really just helped in certain moments of the film, give that kind of extra layer of depth."
"It's almost as if you're whispering the story," Mirabal says of creating music for film. "There's a visual aspect to it, but then there's a whole other mystical side of the story that is whispered to you through music."
So in this movie about a high-tech humanoid that dismembers its victims, listen for that whisper. In between all the screaming."
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