set in the world of the Comanche Nation three centuries ago. The story follows Naru, a skilled hunter who fiercely protects her tribe and wants to prove her worth as a warrior.
set in the world of the Comanche Nation three centuries ago...
wants to prove her worth as a warrior.
Pictured below: The scriptwriters, editors, director, and whatever braindead panel of Hollywood yabos green-lit the project when perusing anything with information on the division of labor within and gender roles of Comanche tribes.
After how very well* autism/some-spectrum-disorder (I forget now the details) was handled in the latest Predator entry, I look forward to the blatant and stupid insertion of two-spirit or some-such non-Comanche cultural thing as justification for this decision.
*In case not blatantly obvious, this is sarcasm. That shit was not handled well at
all.
Which is a little vaguely disappointing from a conceptual standpoint. Because the basic concept of 'Predator meets low-technology society human warrior seeking to prove selves' is solid. And the American West in that whole 1700-1870s period works well as a backdrop.
I, personally, think it would've been fun to see Hollywood try to make a movie directly set in the 1860s threading the needle between the bad-guy Union Army come to fight Injuns in sideshow/distraction from their fight against Confederates, the Predator, and the brutal, settler-massacring Comanche tribe 'protagonists' because you could do some real 80s-inspired blood'n'guts fest with that setup and slap audiences with how the Predators skull-harvesting brutality isn't too far off from stuff man has done. Even putting it back in the early 1700s gives them the opening to show Comanche-Apache hostility and massacring of each other as the background. So, on its base, there's the groundwork for a story there.
But, going by the character and ahistorical stretches required to fanfic-insert them...Not going to be getting that.