{"id":81269,"date":"2025-07-21T18:25:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T18:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/81269\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T18:25:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T18:25:10","slug":"predator-badlands-is-the-start-of-the-alien-vs-predator-reboot-we-need","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/81269\/","title":{"rendered":"Predator: Badlands is the start of the Alien vs. Predator reboot we need"},"content":{"rendered":"

Elle Fanning is no stranger to sci-fi or aliens in general, but this time it looks like she\u2019s bitten off more than she can chew as the Weyland-Yutani android Thia in the upcoming Predator: Badlands<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The last live-action Predator film, Prey<\/a>, took us far into the past, with Comanche warrior Naru (Amber Midthunder) discovering a deadly alien threat to her people. By using a setting that was far from what most would imagine for the franchise, it acted as an interesting way to convey just how out of this world a Predator would be. In Predator: Badlands, however, things seem pretty futuristic \u2014 but not less lethal.<\/p>\n

The new trailer of Predator: Badlands follows Thia, a synthetic who seemingly finds an unlikely ally in Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi\u2019s Dek, a young Predator who has been outcasted by his clan. The trailer show the two of them dealing with the remote planet\u2019s dangerous flora and fauna, from man-eating trees to pterodactyl-like creatures soaring through the skies. As Fanning\u2019s synthetic puts it, they\u2019ve come to \u201cthe most dangerous planet in the universe.\u201d And it doesn\u2019t look all too good for them.<\/p>\n

As a species, Predators are well-known for their incredible hunting skills and ability to make carnage out of anything and everything. They\u2019re also incredibly intelligent, as shown throughout the many spectacles they\u2019ve made out of their prey throughout the franchise. But it\u2019s rare to see them out of their element to the point they need to team up with someone else, so the unlikely allyship with Fanning has our attention piqued.<\/p>\n

That said, it doesn\u2019t seem as though it\u2019ll be an equal partnership at first, if the image of Dek hoisting Thia\u2019s shredded android body up by her neck is any indication. But will that just make their eventual team-up all the juicier? We can\u2019t wait to find out.<\/p>\n

Predator: Badlands is directed by Dan Trachtenberg (Prey) and produced by Jon Davis (The Predator), Trachtenberg, Marc Toberoff (Prey), Ben Rosenblatt (Star Trek: Into Darkness), and Brent O\u2019Connorby (Venom: Let There Be Carnage).<\/p>\n

Predator: Badlands will open exclusively in movie theatres on Nov. 7. It\u2019s not quite an Alien vs. Predator movie, but it\u2019s certainly paving the way for 20th Century Studios to one day bring that franchise back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Elle Fanning is no stranger to sci-fi or aliens in general, but this time it looks like she\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":81270,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[171,53,50,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-81269","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-movies","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-united-states","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114892633400736201","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}