So far, Dan Trachtenberg’s success rate with the Predator franchise has been ridiculously good. In fact, between Prey, claret-covered animation Predator: Killer of Killers, and Predator: Badlands, we’d say it’s been damn near flawless. Even so, it turns out that in the case of Trachtenberg’s latest outing with the Yautja who made one the hero of the movie, things weren’t perfect on the first try.
In an interview with Screen Rant, Weta FX's VFX Supervisor Sheldon Stopsack and Animation Supervisor Karl Rapley revealed that for the film’s final showdown between Dek (Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi) and his father, Njohrr (Reuben de Jong), the initial scrap looked very different and was over a lot quicker.
