If, like us all here at FTN HQ, you loved Predator: Killer of Killers and can’t wait for Predator: Badlands and to see how the Aliens franchise will tie in, then I have good news for you… Dan Tractenberg, who gave us Prey, Killer of Killer and Badlands, has plans for more Yautja hunts!
With 2025 being a big year for fans due to the two Predator releases, we were wondering what was next but if you’ve seen Killer of Killers, you likely have an idea what is coming… Amber Midthunder’s return as Naru!
Speaking to SFX Magazine, Tractenberg confirms that he has one more immediate idea in his head for a new Predator movie, saying: “After Prey came out, and I started thinking about sequel stuff, there were three ideas that I had. Killers is one, Badlands is two and the third one is something else.”
Not only had he a third idea but it seems 2025 has two Predator movies becasue he was so keen to get them made, setting up what comes next: “The reason why I felt possessed to make them and sort of why I rushed – I did two at once because I could multitask with animation – was because I was so eager to get to the third thing. There’s a lot of cool ideas out there and none of them are just like, ‘Oh, we have to say the next part of this story because it was successful.’ All of it is like, ‘Whoa, no one has done that in sci-fi. No one has done that in Predator. No one’s done that with the creature,’ all of those ideas are generated from that instinct.
“So, yeah, there is definitely a third thing that I’d love to get to when Badlands is finished.”
Confirming that the set-up at the end of Killer of Killers wasn’t for nothing, it seems that Midthunder’s will indeed be the star of the next outing after we saw her in the Predator’s ship at the end of Killer of Killers, kept in suspended animation until the Yautja decide to release her for combat.
How exactly Naru will fit into the next movie is unknown, although it’s a safe bet she, like the three human leads in Killer of Killers, will now be displaced in time and forced to fight for her survival.
Did the new Alien: Earth synopsis just suggest it’s really an Aliens Vs Predator series?!
Whatever happens, I’m here for it!
Thoughts? I know you have them and I wanna hear ’em all!
Predator: Badlands, which stars Elle Fanning and Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi, is set in the future on a remote planet, where a young Predator (Schuster-Koloamatangi), outcast from his clan, finds an unlikely ally in Thia (Fanning) and embarks on a treacherous journey in search of the ultimate adversary.
The film is directed by Dan Trachtenberg and produced by John Davis, Dan Trachtenberg, Marc Toberoff, Ben Rosenblatt, Brent O’Connor.
The director of Prey welcomes you to a world of hurt. Experience Predator: Badlands on the big screen, in theaters and IMAX November 7.
Sources: Bloody Disgusting & Predator Movies
Marc
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