US EditionFinal 'Predator: Badlands' Trailer Teases Epic Showdown in Deadly World
Predator: Badlands stars Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi as Dek, a young Predator outcast who teams with synthetic Thia in a PG-13 film expanding the franchise’s emotional and narrative scope.
- 20th Century Studios will release Predator: Badlands on November 7, 2025, exclusively in premium formats including IMAX and Dolby Cinema.
- Director Dan Trachtenberg returns after Prey and this year’s Predator: Killer of Killers, reshaping the franchise by focusing on a Predator protagonist and expanding its emotional core.
- Marvel and 20th Century Studios are publishing an official prequel comic to Badlands in collaboration with Dan Trachtenberg, written by Ethan Sacks, with the first issue arriving on November 12, 2025.
- Creature and VFX teams blended practical and digital methods, creating a full Yautja language and completing roughly 30 days of stunts under Jacob Tomuri in New Zealand.
- Fans note Badlands' ties to Weyland-Yutani and Alien lore, but 20th Century Studios says it contains no human characters and excludes xenomorphs.
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Director Dan Trachtenberg Wanted 'Predator: Badlands' To Feel More 'Conan The Barbarian' Than 'Star Wars'
In seeking to keep Predator: Badlands true to its respective source franchises and avoid having it slip into a mainstream soft sci-fi feel akin to Star Wars or Star Trek, director Dan Trachtenberg says he made it a conscious effort to approach the film not as a ‘space epic’, but rather a Conan the Barbarian-style adventure story. A member of Dek’s (Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi) clan arrives on Genna to finish him off in Predator: Badlands (20…
Final 'Predator: Badlands' trailer teases epic showdown in deadly world
The final trailer for "Predator: Badlands" teases the explosive next chapter in the "Predator" franchise. The film stars Elle Fanning as Thia, a survivor who forges an uneasy alliance with a young Predator outcast as they face terrifying new threats across a hostile planet.
The sci-fi film "Predator: Badlands" brings fresh air into the franchise. A rejected predator and a human ally fight for survival.
Inside 'Predator: Badlands,' Straight From Set With Dan Trachtenberg And More
When the trailer for Predator: Badlands dropped Monday morning, fans got their first glimpse at what’s easily the boldest chapter in the franchise yet. The footage opens with Dek (Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi) crash-landing on what Thia ( Elle Fanning ) calls “one of the most dangerous planets in the universe.” It’s eerie, cinematic, and already teases the twist that will have fans talking because, for the first time ever, a Predator isn’t the
12 Things We Learned Visiting the Set of Predator: Badlands
In the middle of 2024, IGN was invited to the southern suburban fringe of Auckland in New Zealand where, in several giant sound stages nestled amidst soccer fields and service stations, director Dan Trachtenberg and his team were busy crafting the out-of-this-world adventure Predator: Badlands. We spent a day wandering through the damaged hull of a crashed Yautja spaceship, got up close and personal with the hi-tech exterior of a Weyland-Yutani …
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