Director Dan Trachtenberg speaks of Predator: Badlands, Killer of Killers and expanding hunting

Director Dan Trachtenberg Obviously he is having fun playing in the predator franchise sandbox and has remodeled him. After the critical and public success of Prey In 2022, which dropped the Yautja in 1719 and faced him with a warrior of Comanche, Trachtenberg found himself with more stories to tell.

Now we have Predator: Badlands coming and animation Predator: Assassin AssassinAnd they are taking the franchise in new and fantastic new directions! The trailers have been released for both of these projects and fans seem to love what they are seeing.

During a press event covered by Comicbook, Trachtenberg opened on his creative process and how Badlands It was actually the first Predator concept that launched before Prey Decolled.

“I had three very interesting ideas. One of these, the first, the one I was most enthusiastic about at that moment, was Badlands. But then there was this other thing, that was Prey, [that] It was really beautiful.

“We had to put the predator in these different periods of time and tell that story. I think the thing he did Prey Special, however, was not only Predator in a different period of time, it was that the story we were telling had improved by the history of the predator. “

It has become a bit of a declaration of mission for Trachtenberg. He is trying to mean every setting. He said:

“I really wanted to understand, if we had to do that kind of things again, how could it be special? And what is the type of story that we could tell that it could be equally soon and fantastic, but also emotional, thematic and oriented towards the character?”

That line of thought led to Killer killerAn animated anthology that oscillates the fences in every imaginable way.

The history of the anthology follows “three of the most fierce warriors in human history: a Viking raider who guides his young son in a bloody search for revenge, a ninja in feudal Japan who turns against his brother Samurai in a brutal battle for the succession and a wwii driver who takes the sky to investigate a threat of beyond the world. Assassins. “

And if it seems the type of chaos that the fans will like! The director spoke about why he opted to go with the animation on these stories, saying:

“In thinking about the different periods of time, I refined the idea of, and if we did an animated film in which we could express ourselves in a way we cannot see?

“Now we have all this Predator Movies and we are doing this that is crazy different, but still with all things … the other part of the coin in which I love Predator Movie is that crazy carnage, crazy.

“Wouldn’t it be nice to see it in a different means? So we made this movie, Killer killerAt the same time, stupidly, but incredibly. “

When asked if he had more animated stories in production, Trachtenberg did not hesitate.

“Of course. I’m sure you guys see an interesting movie e [say]”Oh, it wouldn’t be nice if …?” That [thinking] It does not go out for me. So there are tons of interesting things. We will see if we do it. People must like it. “

In the meantime, Predator: Badlands He is heading to a totally new territory with an alien planet for the main setting. Elle Fanning stars like Thia, a human being who forms a link with a young marginalized predator (Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamaangi) while both are looking for a worthy opponent. The story rests on the classic theme of hunting, but turns it through survival, trust and a very unexpected alliance.

The direct continued to say:

“It was certainly not done … I guess the thing we always try to say is that it is not done [to feel] As if it were just a bigger thing. I think it is what we all mean when we say … Christopher Nolan would always say to do it as if he were the only one.

“It is really because you don’t want to feel like I have been exchanged of the experience and it was incomplete. These are very, for me, I will not sleep at night if I don’t feel like I was really communicated with everything I wanted with both these films. So we are really throwing all our hearts out there.”

Predator: Assassin Assassin Previewed on June 6 on Hulu. Predator: Badlands He arrives in cinemas on November 7th.