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Over the course of eight Predator movies, 11 humans have been able to kill the titular alien hunters, despite them putting up a good fight.
Predator: Badlands’ new trailer shows off much more of the movie, reveals even more connections to the Alien franchise, and even teases a big mech fight.
Meryl Streep and Anne Hathaway are officially back on set, reprising their iconic roles as Miranda Priestly and Andrea “Andy” Sachs, respectively, for the sequel The Devil Wears Prada 2. The original 2006 film, a cult classic for its sharp satire of the cutthroat fashion world, ended with Andy leaving Runway for a job at …
Badlands director Dan Trachtenberg showed off the first 15 minutes of his movie and made surprising connections to the Alien franchise and Arnold Schwarzenegger's Dutch.
Timeline-wise, it jumps way back. Each story sits in its historical pocket, way before almost all the other Predator or Alien movies. These are the oldest Predator hunts we’ve seen—unless you count Prey from 1719, which barely squeaks in earlier.
Arnold Schwarzenegger has returned to the Predator movie franchise after almost 40 years. The Hollywood star, who can currently be seen in Netflix show FUBAR, appeared in the 1987 original, which spawned five follow ups as well as spin-off franchise Alien vs Predator.
Predator: Badlands centers on Dek (Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi), a young-and-hungry Yautja warrior who is the runt of the litter in his clan and has a whole lot to prove. He teams up with an unlikely ally: Thia ( Elle Fanning ), a synthetic made by the Weyland-Yutani company (from the Alien franchise).
The astonishingly po-faced approach to such a ridiculous concept was directed by the soon-to-be mighty John McTiernan, the movie he made before Die Hard (and just 16 years before his career would collapse in a heap of abysmal flops,
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IGN Africa on MSNPredator: Badlands Director Confirms the Whole Predator Carrying an Android Idea Was Inspired by Chewbacca Carrying C-3PO in Star Wars | SDCC 2025Star Wars, however, wasn’t the only inspiration. In prior interviews Trachtenberg has mentioned masterpiece Shadow of the Colossus as inspiring Predator: Badlands, but it turns out there are many other games that factored into the film’s companion mechanic, including Half-Life 2, Uncharted, and God of War.