Predator: Badlands director talks about the hunter who becomes chased in his new film

Hot from the heels of Predator: Assassin AssassinThe brutal animated anthology now streamed on Hulu and Disney+, director Dan Trachtenberg He is talking about his next live action film in the franchise, Predator: Badlandswho is about to shake the franchise in a fun way.

Instead of following a new group of humans that is persecuted, this story focuses on a Yautja named Dek, an marginalized of its own type that ends up being the one who runs for his life. Speaking talking about this aspect of history, Trachtenberg said to Gamesradar+:

“I have always been interested in the characters who try to test themselves. Badlands’s true special is that it is not just another predator film, and we are not only doing the thing in which he cuts the predator and kills people one by one.

“Every chapter [in the series] It brings its special engine to the franchise and the fun of Badlands is truly the reversal of all this: this time, the predator is what is chased, and it is what needs to test himself. Badlands is thematically linked to the entire franchise in that way. “

THE Predator The franchising has always thrived in a main idea … survival of the most suitable, but but Badlands He asks what happens when the predator peak is no longer at the top of the food chain and what is willing to do to go up.

Dek (played by Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamaangi) collaborates with a synthetic Android named Thia (Elle Fanning), which seems to be a creation of the Weyland-Yutani bodily from Alien universe. Together, the improbable couple starts traveling to find what is described as “the last opponent”, all while other predators are monitoring Dek as a prey. The hunter became the expense.

The script was written by Patrick Aisonwith Trachtenberg also on board as a manufacturer together with John Davis, Marc Toberoff, Ben RosenblattAND Brent O’Connor.

If you have followed Trachtenberg’s journey through this universe, this marks his third time by playing in Predator sandbox. His first, PreyIt was a prequel set in 1719 which became Hulu’s greatest success at launch. Then came Killer killerwhich brings the franchise to an animation area for adults, with three different warriors facing the most fatal hunter of the galaxy in three periods of different times.

But Badlands It is a redefined version of the franchise. Instead of repeating family beats, Trachtenberg seems willing to break the formula and see what else can be the franchise. The decision to hit the story on a character of Predator and an marginalized is a very interesting, interesting and unique move for the franchise.

Predator: Badlands will arrive in cinemas on 7 November 2025.