The teaser trailer forPredator: Badlandshas arrived. The movie, which is the eighth live-action installment in the long-running science fiction film franchise, will be the third entry to be helmed by director Dan Trachtenberg after the 2022 prequelPreyand the upcoming animated movieKiller of Killers. TheupcomingPredator: Badlandsstars Elle Fanning as Thia opposite Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi as the Predator Dek and is set to follow the unlikely bond that forms between them during an adventure to face a powerful enemy.
20th Century Studioshas nowunveiled the official teaser trailer forPredator: Badlands. The teaser opens up on the interior of a Predator’s ship, with voiceover from Thia saying “I didn’t think you survived.” What follows is a series of ominous shots, including a cloaked predator kneeling, epic shots of a barren landscape, Thia with her eyes turning milky and robotic, a group of soldiers walking down a narrow alleyway, what appears to be a Predator being hunted in a field.
The trailer introduces what seems to bea giant predator wielding a glowing swordas Thia warns that “you’re hunting something that can’t be killed.” The teaser then shows an unmasked Predator, seemingly the same one being hunted in the earlier scene, facing off against a huge monster. It follows this by closing on a shot of the alien wielding a sword against a tentacled creature. All of this is intercut with title cards reading “the director of Prey welcomes you to a world of hurt.” Watch the video below:
What This Means For Predator: Badlands
The Teaser Raises As Many Questions As It Answers
One of the biggest reveals in thePredator: Badlandstrailer is the fact thatElle Fanning’s characteris seemingly a Weyland-Yutani android, as showcased via her eyes and a Weyland-Yutani logo seen later in the trailer.This will continue the franchise’s connection to theAlienfranchise, which was originally forged in the 2004 crossover movieAlien vs. Predatorand its 2007 sequelAliens vs. Predator: Requiem. However, it remains to be seen if there is any more narrative overlap between the franchises to be found in the upcoming movie, now that it has implied this major connection.
The most recentAlieninstallment is the 2024 movieAlien: Romulus, though the franchise is set to continue in the upcoming FX seriesAlien: Earth.
Additionally the “world of hurt” taglineseems to confirm thatBadlandswill take place off of Earth, though exactly where the majority of the story takes place is unknown. It is possible that the movie will take place on the Predator home planet, a place that few previousPredatormovieshave depicted in detail. The closest that the franchise has come is in the 2010 moviePredators, though it primarily took place in one small area, on a hunting ground designed for humans.
Our Take On The Predator: Badlands Trailer
The Movie Promises To Be A Sci-Fi Epic
For the time being, it seems that further details aboutPredator: Badlandswill have to wait until they can be expanded upon in a longer trailer. However, the footage revealed in the official teaser indicates that the movie will be a major expansion of the franchise’s universe. WhilePredatormovies typically focus on smaller-scale conflicts between a group of humans and one or more Predators,the upcoming installment seems to be a major, full-scale sci-fi epicin spite of its relatively small cast of characters.
