Predator: Badlands does what no Predator movie has achieved earlier than: It makes a Predator the protagonist.
That Predator is Yautja warrior Dek (Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi), a runt by his species’ requirements. (Nonetheless massive and terrifying by human requirements, although.) In an effort to show himself to his clan, he’ll must embark on a hunt on one of many universe’s deadliest planets. Fortunately for him, although, he will not be alone.
Accompanying him is Thia (Elle Fanning), an artificial created by the Alien franchise’s sinister Weyland-Yutani Company. That is proper, we’re getting one other Alien–Predator crossover! (Between this and FX’s Alien: Earth, it is an ideal yr to be an Alien fan.) Nevertheless, as an alternative of pitting Xenomorphs and Yautja towards each other within the vein of Alien vs. Predator, Predator: Badlands makes Dek and Thia unlikely allies. She’s a chipper assemble who’s capable of survive even after being lower in half, he is an angsty alien searching for his father’s approval. Now that is one odd couple I can not wait to see in motion.
The trailer for Predator: Badlands offers us a style of its synthetic-Yautja team-up, together with the sight gag of Dek carrying round Thia’s torso like a backpack. Additionally build up the hype are teases of an enormous mech — Aliens, anybody? — dealing with off towards Dek’s seemingly unkillable prey, together with flashes of Dek talking within the Yautja language, full with subtitles.
However maybe probably the most thrilling aspect of Predator: Badlands is that it involves us courtesy of Dan Trachtenberg, who introduced us 2022’s Prey, a damn-near excellent Predator prequel. Trachtenberg can be behind 2025’s animated anthology movie Predator: Killer of Killers, one other banger of an entry within the collection. With that sort of monitor report, count on Predator: Badlands to rock.
Predator: Badlands hits theaters Nov. 7.
