Overview
- The first full trailer, released July 21, showcases Dek speaking in Yautja, giving the Predator a literal voice for the first time.
- Elle Fanning plays Thia, a legless Weyland-Yutani android whose partnership with Dek foregrounds their emotional and tactical alliance on the remote planet Kalisk.
- Trailer highlights include Weyland-Yutani branding, a Power Loader-style mech and visual cues to a broader Alien crossover.
- Badlands subverts franchise norms by positioning a young Predator as both the hunted and the protagonist on the “most dangerous planet in the universe.”
- Dan Trachtenberg returns after his successful Prey and the animated Killer of Killers, expanding the Predator mythology toward a shared Disney sci-fi universe.