The newest information of a possible “Prey” movie is sadly quite previous, because the e-book’s movie rights were sitting with twentieth Century Studios since 1997 (consistent with Selection). Still, on this age of continuous diversifications of current highbrow belongings, it would not be an enormous marvel to obtain information in regards to the topic sooner or later within the no longer-too-far-off long run … even supposing it is lovely exhausting no longer to smile at one studio consultant’s feedback in regards to the adaptation. “Our intuition is to do that briefly,” they stated on the time. Once more, this was once in 1997.
Still, there is at all times hope, as a result of “Prey” has plentiful large-display screen attainable. Most likely the best factor about it’s that the movie model of the unconventional may well be no matter you wish to have it to be, in reality. Its “Jurassic Park”-style large beats would lend themselves extraordinarily smartly to the vintage blockbuster structure, and with the correct method, the nanobot swarms generally is a visible dinner party that might rival the entire vintage particular results groundbreakers — assume a brand new “Avatar,” or “Terminator 2: Judgment Day,” or clearly “Jurassic Park.” Then again, the extra sinister parts of the plot would lend themselves extraordinarily smartly to a complete-on horror method, too. We now have already discussed “The Factor” and “Alien,” however in reality, the sky is the prohibit. There is not any reason “Prey” could not turn out to be a status A24 horror movie fanatics will have in mind fondly each time it is 3am and they are able to’t sleep (most likely as a result of they only re-watched it for the twelfth time). In fact, seeing as “Jurassic Park” additionally flirts with horror ways, “Prey” may take a equivalent path, and simply embody all of its stressful weirdness as a large-price range manufacturing that is not afraid to creep you out.
Irrespective of the method that the movie adaptation would possibly finally end up opting for, it is transparent {that a} “Prey” movie could be extraordinarily entertaining, and executed proper, it would have a beautiful excellent preventing probability to knock “Jurassic Park” off the “best Michael Crichton movie adaptation” throne. In fact, they might most probably have to exchange the identify, as a result of we have already got one sci-fi “Prey” that regulations.
