Overview
- Attendees praise Dan Trachtenberg’s direction, inventive action, and expansive world-building, with several calling it a “cosmic buddy road movie.”
- Reactions repeatedly note a lighter, family-accessible tone and “Disney-fied” gore that could leave some longtime fans unsatisfied.
- The film reframes the series by centering a young Yautja outcast and pairing him with Thia (Elle Fanning) on a future remote planet.
- Predator: Badlands opens exclusively in theaters on November 7 with premium formats including IMAX, RealD 3D, Dolby Cinema, 4DX, and ScreenX.
- Reports from the first screenings say there is no mid- or post-credits scene, and full critic reviews are set to publish on November 4.