Here's the Predator legacy character the series needs to introduce someday. The original Predator was something of an update of the Beowulf poem and saw a special unit of soldiers face off against an alien hunter. John McTiernan's taut direction combined with a great cast and a fantastic premise combined to make Predator an instant classic. The movie only scratched the surface in of the titular alien, and subsequent sequels and spinoffs would greatly flesh out the mythology behind it.
The Predator, which promised to revive the series and inject some of director Shane Black's signature snappy dialogue. Unfortunately, due to reshoots and re-edits, the sequel was a misshapen mess.
The Predator franchise will get another revival with the Predator 2's - which had a strange death for Gary Busey's Keyes - ending. This saw Danny Glover's Detective Harrigan gifted a flintlock pistol after defeating the sequel's primary hunter by Greyback, the elder of the hunting party. This flintlock was engraved with the name Raphael Adolini, with the date reading 1715. If the Predator series continues on the prequel track, the franchise should introduce Adolini as a legacy character.
Given that Prey is set in 1719 anyway, the series is currently exploring this time period anyway. Just like Predator 2 essentially birthed the Predator movie franchise origin story revealed Adolini was a pirate captain with a code of honor - something that brings him into bloody conflict with his own men - and the story recounted how he fought against - and eventually allied with - a young Greyback.
It also revealed Adolini's flintlock was a gift given to Greyback with the words "Take it," which the hunter later repeated to Harrigan. A prequel focused on this Predator legacy character doesn't have to be a straight adaption of this comic short story, of course, but since the movies are going straight to Hulu this should allow filmmakers to be a little more experimental with the series. One early concept for a third Predator movie even involved exploring the backstory of Raphael Adolini and his pistol, so if Prey is a hit with Hulu viewers, this is a perfect sequel idea to explore.
