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Predator: Badlands Recasts the Series as a Buddy Adventure With a Predator Lead, Opening Nov. 7

Trachtenberg says he skipped a Prey sequel to create a first-of-its-kind relationship story led by a young Yautja.

Overview

  • In a new Empire interview, Dan Trachtenberg calls the film “a kind of buddy-comedy” and frames it as a relationship story rather than a solo survival tale.
  • The Predator protagonist, a young Yautja named Dek, teams with Elle Fanning’s Weyland-Yutani synthetic Thia, whose upper torso is strapped to his back.
  • JoBlo reports the story is set in the future on a remote planet where outcast Dek undertakes a perilous hunt for the ultimate adversary.
  • Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi is reported to play Dek.
  • The film follows Trachtenberg’s animated anthology Predator: Killer of Killers released earlier this year.