There’s never been a better time to be a Predator fan. A few years back, Dan Trachtenberg brought the series back to rude health with the knockout P
There’s never been a better time to be a Predator fan. A few years back, Dan Trachtenberg brought the series back to rude health with the knockout Prey, dialling the clock back a few hundred years for the tale of a Comanche warrior woman battling an intergalactic hunter. Then, this year, Trachtenberg followed it up with the eye-popping animated gore-fest Predator: Killer Of Killers, produced concurrently with the franchise’s return to the large screen (both Prey and Killer Of Killers were Disney+ exclusives) in the much-anticipated live-action Predator: Badlands. The latest Badlands trailer shows that Trachtenberg isn’t resting on his laurels – instead cranking up all the dials and giving us a completely different Predator movie than we’ve ever seen before. Check out the thrilling fresh trailer:
Ooft, doesn’t that look stellar? In a major shift for the series, our hero this time is a Predator (or, Yautja) itself, newborn warrior Dek, played by Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi – who, despite his fearsome appearance, is the runt of his hard-as-nails family. We look set to follow him as he ventures to a planet where death lurks around every corner, on a hunt where he can prove himself to be tougher than the rest. Except, he looks to be seriously out of his depth, taking on all kinds of malevolent flora and fauna. Thankfully, backup comes courtesy of Elle Fanning’s android Thia (or, the top half of her at least), providing some much-needed support to Dek on his journey.
There’s plenty to be excited about with this trailer – the action looks epic, the scope gigantic, the beasts colossal. The odd-couple pairing of Dek and Thia promises some top character tension, and the mythology glimpsed in the final act of Killer Of Killers seems like it’ll be expanded upon even more in this story. All that, and we’re still desperate to know if Thia being a Weyland-Yutani android means that a Xenomorph will pop up.
We’ll find out when Predator: Badlands comes to cinemas on 7 November. Your time has come, all you fans of those ugly motherfu-
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