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Predator: Badlands Trailer Gives Predator a Voice and Reveals Alien Franchise Ties

The trailer sets the stage for the film’s November 7 theatrical debut by revealing Dek’s Yautja dialogue, spotlighting a legless Weyland-Yutani android, invoking a Power Loader homage.

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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.