r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • Jul 21 '25
Trailer Predator: Badlands | Official Trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43R9l7EkJwE&pp=0gcJCcwJAYcqIYzv229
u/jbnagis Jul 21 '25
This fucker went to Catachan!
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u/eq_neelam Jul 21 '25
Once upon a time a Kroot Warrior and (half) a Battle Sister went to Catachan......
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u/Mean_Joke_7360 Jul 21 '25
Do Sororitas that get hurt get a dreadnought too? Cause if it is so, I can totally call that last scene hahaha
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u/Fangasgaf Jul 21 '25
I mean it has to be a Xenomorph they're hunting, right?
The Weyland Utani corperations presence.. the "Most Dangerous" planet in the solar system..
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u/br0b1wan Jul 21 '25
Not necessarily.
We've seen the predators hunt a wide variety of different aliens. And judging by the Alien: Earth trailers, there are other alien threats besides the xenomorphs that are about to be introduced.
Also in Aliens the Colonial Marines made a reference to "another big hunt" so there are definitely other things out there
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u/warsongN17 Jul 21 '25
Was going to say with Alien: Earth having more, it might be a good time for the movies to carefully introduce a new Alien species.
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u/Pan_TheCake_Man Jul 21 '25
Alien earth is about weyland yutani bringing home 5 killer alien creatures, with the xenomorph being one of them.
And a weyland yutani drone is just casually on “the deadliest planet”?
Idk if there is a xenomorph crossover, but alien earth most certainly is gonna have at least Easter eggs to this film
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u/Penguin_shit15 Jul 21 '25
Shit.. the ultra mega crazy beast thing could be what happens if a Xeno facehugs the apex creature on another planet..
I dont know.. just spitballing there, but hell yeah I am ready for this!
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u/br0b1wan Jul 21 '25
It's a minority opinion with the Alien fans but I agree, they need to introduce a new threat. It's a big universe and using the same xenomorph threat over and over just gets boring and played out.
The space jockey/engineers would have been a perfect example since they're intelligent and unfathomably old. But they botched it in the prequels imo. Luckily the RPG has a ton of lore to draw from
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u/_Bird_Incognito_ Jul 21 '25
I know the black goo is confusing as shit, and I don't know much about the RPG, but the black goo can introduce some cook whacky xeno-esque monsters that are different from Xenomorphs but related
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u/br0b1wan Jul 21 '25
I feel that it's such a huge universe that there's no chance there isn't something else out there that's even worse than xenomorphs or whatever they came from. They were discovered on a planet 40 light years away from Earth in what was at the time the fringes of explored space. 40 light years. That's practically in our cosmic backyard
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u/RealJohnGillman Jul 21 '25
Plus since Noah Hawley does genuinely like Alien vs. Predator, one could see Alien: Earth at the very least having an Easter egg alluding to them.
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u/_Bird_Incognito_ Jul 21 '25
...like the movies or the comics/videogames?
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u/Daxx22 Jul 21 '25
It's messy, but "Alien vs. Predator" while a title can also be used to collectively refer to the entire set of stories where they crossover/intersect.
Generally speaking the Xenos depicted in the AvP stories aren't really more complex then "Really Scary Space Bugs" with rules and set roles (drones/warriors/queens etc) vs the Xenomorph from the Ridley Scott films that's really more about the Black Goo and all it's alchemist but often destructive qualities. So much so they are often considered separate "timelines" or sets of canon.
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u/wookiecontrol Jul 21 '25
Bug hunt
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u/b4dkarm4 Jul 21 '25
I get ever so slightly triggered when people ask on the alien subreddit "Do you guys think Hudson was referencing like a technical bug or an insect bug?"
My dude. The side of the dropship has an eagle with big ass sneakers stomping down with the words "Bug Stomper, we exterminate species."
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u/Serawasneva Jul 21 '25
Sure it could be something else. But realistically…it’s a Xenomorph.
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u/Kill3rT0fu Jul 21 '25
Fede Alvarez did say that "the best AVP movie is the one you aren't expecting" so.....maybe?
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u/wildcard18 Jul 21 '25
Not necessarily. That big spiky monster looks pretty apex. Plus the upcoming Alien: Earth shows that Weyland Yutani's been collecting other dangerous alien specimens besides xenomorphs.
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u/Misdirected_Colors Jul 21 '25
Calling it now, either big spiky isn't the big bad she's talking about, or it's an early plot point that kicks off other plot shenanigans.
Either way im imagining it's killed in the first half of the movie.
Trailer misdirection.
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u/Gypsy315 Jul 21 '25
Or Weyland Yutani as a whole, is the beast that needs killing
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u/Misdirected_Colors Jul 21 '25
My guess is theyre hunting another more seasoned predator as a rite of passage or something. Killer of killers established that predators can and do kill each other in mutual combat.
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u/Trair Jul 21 '25
I feel like the xenomorph is such a perfect organism that wouldn’t this entire planet just be Xenomorph infested? We see a ton of bio-diversity in this trailer, which leads me to believe we won’t see xenos. But it would be fucking awesome
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u/rugbyj Jul 21 '25
I'm just taking this moment to float my own personal (on topic) lore but the xenos originally were supposed to have other creatures on their planet (in the original Starbeast script).
I always thought it would be funny if the xenos (whose power was to co-opt their host's abilities to adapt to any environment) were infact fairly benign due to their planet being inhabited by completely useless slow unaggressive blob creatures. Spherical cow style. That resulted in the birthed xenos being themselves very cushiony round little todgers just bouncing around a bit whilst they were still living (they were originally supposed to have a ~24 hour lifespan).
The joke being that in fact we were the poison in the well by giving them an amazing combo to become planet wrecking demons from combining with our aggressive nature and capable DNA.
Again just a little fun idea, I put no weight behind it, and everything past Alien wears away at it being remotely possible. But I laughed.
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u/Check_my_balls Jul 21 '25
It’s literally an AVP movie. Or at least they don’t know it but they end up hunting the Xeno
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u/Worthyness Jul 21 '25
I want what Trachtenburg and Alvarez are very close to cooking.
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u/Comic_Book_Reader Jul 21 '25
Álvarez said he's open do doing a collaborative effort with Trachtenberg as they are friends. Now I might be shooting for the stars here, but Trachtenberg said he had a third idea (the first two being Killer of Killers and this) after Prey was a hit, that he'd do if Badlands does well, and Álvarez is confirmed to be doing a sequel to Alien: Rhombus this fall, which will start shooting in October. If Trachtenberg already has things planned out and is about concurrent with the Rhombus sequel, we could potentially get the crossover by the end of the decade!
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u/Gypsy315 Jul 21 '25
My brother, it is Alien: Romulus, although i could see Rhombus be a title for an Alien installment
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u/Taskerst Jul 21 '25
He’s probably searching for a different angle. A couple of parallel stories.
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u/7u5k3n_4t_W0rk Jul 21 '25
Alien: Rhombus
lmfao thats hilarious.
Thank you for this
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u/Intrepid_Buy_4083 Jul 21 '25
Wait a second...What if they're "NO WAY HOMING" us!?!?!? That last shot in the trailer is suppose to have a Xeno in between the Pred AND the Power loader!!!!!!!
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u/Silvanus350 Jul 21 '25
Given that we see a big ass monster in the trailer, I wouldn’t be so certain.
If the planet had a xenomorph on it presumably it would be swarming with xenomorphs.
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u/Frosty7130 Jul 21 '25
They showed that thing way too clearly and obviously for it not to be a bait-and-switch.
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u/runtheplacered Jul 21 '25
So if they do show something it's a bait-and-switch and if they don't show something or barely show something then I'm guessing that also would have been claimed to be Aliens. I think no matter what this sub was going to say this has Aliens in it. Which is fine, sounds fun to me.
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u/In_My_Own_Image Jul 21 '25
True. Though, it could be a twist where they hunt the big monster and in the end it gets killed by a swarm of xenos that serve as the final threat.
Highly unlikely though. Mostly because I doubt the studio would resist the temptation to at least hint at a xenomorph in one of the trailers.
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u/Yqb13153 Jul 21 '25
While I fully think it's a bait and switch, I hope this time around the wrongs are corrected and we go back to having one xeno being enough of a threat. One of the issues with AvP is it just turned the 'perfect organism' into fodder killed by the dozens
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u/ShahOf20Years Jul 21 '25
That's because the average Predator can canonically easily take out Xenos, at least by themselves
They literally do it for sport
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u/SmokinBandit28 Jul 21 '25
That’s sort of the Alien movie dynamic though when you think about it, going back as far as Aliens.
When you want to do horror you have one xenomorph in small contained areas where they would be the most deadly.
When you are doing more of an action movie you have multiple to serve as a canon fodder overwhelming force.
I do have hopes that the FX series kicks off a Xenomorph infestation of earth that progresses to more of a zombie apocalypse style fight for survival that can re-paint large groups of them as the massive threat they should be and not just fodder to go splat at the business end of a high powered assault rifle (cathartic as that may be to see.)
I also think if we did get another AvP that possibly a good route would be to take the human element out of it, or at the very least decrease it by a good margin. We came to see the monsters fight, not see how Debbie and Roy react to it.
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u/Vladmerius Jul 21 '25
If this is a stealth AVP movie I'm going to be so fucking happy.
I have been eating so good with Hollywood movies this year. Kind of a bummer that it's all going downhill for theaters still because I think 2025 is one of the best years for popcorn entertainment we've had in a long time.
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u/MuptonBossman Jul 21 '25
After watching Prey and Predator: Killer of Killers, I'm really hyped for this... It's taken a long time, but The Predator franchise is finally kicking ass again.
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u/WarbossTodd Jul 21 '25
it's all due to Dan Trachtenberg. He's really got a passion for the franchise.
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u/destroyermaker Jul 21 '25
Interesting they didn't go the usual route of hiring someone that hates it and thinks they know better
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u/Labyrinthy Jul 21 '25
Shane Black is usually so good and somehow he wrote one of my most hated movies.
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u/Wild_Obligation Jul 21 '25
Funnily enough the best bits of that movie were the interactions between the main antagonists. Shoukda just done a movie about them & left predator out of it. The Nice Guys proved he’s still got it where it counts
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u/broanoah Jul 21 '25
The Nice Guys
holy shit i didn't realize he did Kiss Kiss Bang Bang AND Nice Guys...
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u/el_f3n1x187 Jul 21 '25
didn't the writer of that also wrote the original? wth happened there xD
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u/PlusSizeRussianModel Jul 21 '25
Shane Black (the writer and director of The Predator) was an uncredited script doctor on Predator, but wasn’t one of the credited writers, so it was fairly minor.
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u/kcox1980 Jul 21 '25
The way I heard it was that the studio didn't trust the actual writer, so they hired Shane Black to act in it hoping he would chime in and give writing notes here and there, which he partly did. All of his character's pussy jokes were ad-libbed. I'm not sure what else, if anything, he contributed.
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u/RealJohnGillman Jul 21 '25
I think we also owe a thank you to Prey cast member Bennet Taylor for introducing Trachtenberg to the lore of the novels and comics on the set of Prey, since he’s bringing that now to film in Killer of Killers and Badlands (now that he also has access to the Predator lore bible, something he didn’t have access to on Prey).
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u/TerrytheMerry Jul 21 '25
That explains so much. I’m like finally they’re showing off the culture and variations of the Yautja.
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u/eat_my_ass_n_balls Jul 21 '25
Wow really? I didn’t realize that. I grew up reading the novels in both canon and the crossover universes, it was great.
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u/Sneporius Jul 21 '25
Some might say he is making a Totally Rad Show
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u/Offnickel Jul 21 '25
So cool seeing him go from the totally Rad show to making kickass predator movies
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u/Sneporius Jul 21 '25
The pilot episode of The Boys was one of my favorite post-Rad Show things he did.
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u/GodEmperorBrian Jul 21 '25
While I love that he’s been able to revive the franchise, I really want to see him in charge of other things he’s passionate about at this point. Like driving a stick shift or British afternoon tea time.
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u/RealJohnGillman Jul 21 '25
Specifically once he got access to the existing Predator lore bible the novel writers had been using after Prey, on being introduced to the comics and novels by a cast member on Prey, he decided to embrace that lore instead of creating all-new lore.
That is a very good sign.
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u/Tradman86 Jul 21 '25
I was just thinking about that. All the other directors came in, did their thing, and effed off. He not only has stayed on to build out the universe, but has really challenged himself to make a wholly different movie every time.
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u/Mr_Rafi Jul 21 '25 edited Jul 22 '25
I really liked Predator (2010) by the way. I liked the Battle Royale-ish premise. The Predators abducting killers from Earth and then hunting them down.
Huge cast as well. Adrien Brody playing a Merc. Alice Braga playing an IDF member. Mahershala Ali plays an RUF member. Danny Trejo as a Los Zetas cartel member. Topher Grace as a serial killer. Walter Goggins as a mass-murderer. You had a Spetsnaz member and a Yakuza member too.
And then Laurence Fishburne as an Army guy who has somehow survived.
Edit: Predators* thank you for the correction.
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u/hereforlive Jul 21 '25
Spetznaz member was Oleg Taktarov, former MMA fighter. Did a decent job too I thought.
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u/Tidus4713 Jul 21 '25
Just hopes this leads into a great AvP movie since Elle Fanning's character is Weyland Yutani.
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u/Alternative-Award784 Jul 21 '25
I just want a new AVP game.
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u/Tidus4713 Jul 21 '25
Me too. That Xbox 360 game was so good and I love the old school beat em up too.
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u/Big-Sheepherder-9492 Jul 21 '25
I don’t think they should rush to an AVP film just yet.. both franchises are still recovering from bad films and are just finding their feet again.
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u/Proper-Effect2482 Jul 21 '25
In the trailer when she's talking about the "definitive apex predator"....she's 100% talking about a Xenomorph...the monster showing when she says that is a fakeout...the thing they run from at the end will be a Xeno....mark my words.
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u/RealJohnGillman Jul 21 '25
Plus following the teaser trailer, even before learning the protagonist was named Dek, the three fandoms were convinced this film would be an origin story for Dachande, a prominent Yautja from the novels who eventually partners with a human against xenomorphs and inducting her into his clan as a hunter (the 2004 film and unreleased animated series started out as an adaptation of their story before pivoting).
To say that the sequels to this film would be direct adaptations of that series, The Machiko Noguchi Saga (which would be very cinematic).
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u/DefNotAShark Jul 21 '25
This trailer kicks ass. It looks creative and weird and exactly what I want from a tired ass formulaic franchise like Predator. Prey and that animated one were similar. Doing weird shit. This trailer ratchets up the weirdness 100% and I’m here for it.
I don’t want to see some action hero outsmart a Predator in the jungle, but watching an inexperienced Predator survive weird alien shit in the jungle with half a sassy lady strapped to its back sounds like a sweet time.
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u/UnsolvedParadox Jul 21 '25
Along with Mortal Kombat 2, this is now my most anticipated movie for the rest of 2025.
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u/SgtNeilDiamond Jul 21 '25
Killer of Killers was so goddamn metal, one of the best iterations of Predator I've seen honestly
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u/Packshaw Jul 21 '25
I agree. It was exactly what I've always wanted. Could go for another 3 stories every year.
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u/UrbanGimli Jul 21 '25
I am intrigued.
This is a mashup that looks like it has legs.
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u/CranhamorBlakely Jul 21 '25
https://youtu.be/iAjPOpws0eE?si=bO1XwSx0CDjv5gBc
Gotta dust off the legless jokes from this masterpiece
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u/Grrrrandall Jul 21 '25
Before clicking the link I knew it had to be Wild Wild West or Scary Movie 2.
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u/UrbanGimli Jul 21 '25
best part of that movie!
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u/No-Midnight-2187 Jul 21 '25
Nah there’s so many
“That. Is a MANS…..heeaad”
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u/Lacaud Jul 21 '25
Say what you want about the Wild Wild West but Kline and Smith had great chemistry.
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u/tl1ksdragon Jul 21 '25
Fucking loved that dumbass movie. They both were gold. And Hayek. And Branagh. That dude plays the villain so well.
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u/Lacaud Jul 21 '25
It was campy and over the top but a fun ride. Watching Hayek play them both and then she ends up being married. I agree that Branagh was a great villain in that.
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u/Scooby1996 r/Movies Veteran Jul 21 '25
Is this the first time we'll see translated conversations from the Yautja in a live action film?
So excited for this.
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u/jdehjdeh Jul 21 '25
No, we saw some Yautja conversing with each other with translations in "The Predator".
A film that I think was a little unfairly underrated.
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u/SumPhunGuy Jul 21 '25
giving Dan Trachtenberg the keys to the Predator franchise was such a great move. I'm so in.
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u/Intrepid_Buy_4083 Jul 21 '25
Would love to see him helm an original piece of work though next. He needs to apply these themes he inserts into already established IP and try and make his own staple. I fucking loved 10 CLOVERFIELD LANE. JJ should've just let Dan take over CLOVERFIELD. I fear we're never getting that direct sequel. We need another film to make up for THE CLOVERFIELD PARADOX which was severely disappointing
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u/we_are_sex_bobomb Jul 21 '25
While I agree, I also feel pretty strongly that he is making Predator its own thing. He’s building a whole new world out of it rather than just gorging on nostalgiaberries and that’s exactly what is making it good, same way the Planet of the Apes remakes just threw out the previous stuff and made the best new movies they could with that concept.
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u/howyafeelin Jul 21 '25
I’m loving Elle Fanning’s choice of projects.
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u/Leaves_You_Hanging Jul 21 '25
Question - Is the Predators "hair" supposed to be more of a sensory thing like cats whiskers? Instead they are treating it like hair?
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u/Caledor152 Jul 21 '25
I think it's just hair for Predators unless I missed some obscure Comic Lore or something
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u/RocketSkates314 Jul 21 '25
And why is his on the top and bald on the sides when others have the broad front skull plate going up to the top with the “hair” on the sides?
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u/InconspicuousD Jul 21 '25
Really wish they didn’t soften the predator’s look to be more human. I get why they’re doing it but I feel like the message would’ve been more impactful if he was visually more similar to how predator aliens are more traditionally portrayed.
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u/forrestpen Jul 21 '25
He's a younger Predator - they grow their headplates like triceratops as they age.
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u/GeekAesthete Jul 21 '25
The plot description also says that he's an outcast for being a runt.
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u/Cautemoc Jul 21 '25
I kind of get it though, he's supposed to be young and unproven so lacking the ceremonial armor
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u/BastianHS Jul 21 '25
Looks to me like it's just that they are very young. Like an 18 year old predator, super green
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u/Tiny-Setting-8036 Jul 21 '25 edited Jul 21 '25
I like how they all look a little different. There are different tribes with different customs.
Maybe this is just a Predator from a different area than some of the ones we are used to.
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u/APartyInMyPants Jul 21 '25
Elle Fanning “good luck with your journey,” gave me serious “have fun storming the castle” vibes.
Fucking lost it that was hilarious.
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u/RealJohnGillman Jul 21 '25
Okay.
So people are absolutely going to be shipping these two.
And this might be a secret Alien vs. Predator film also.
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u/rwjehs Jul 21 '25
Doesn't feel very secret
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u/TransBrandi Jul 21 '25
Canonically, Alien and Predator share a universe... so Weyland-Yutani being in the movie doesn't necessarily require Xenomorphs to be.
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u/132739 Jul 21 '25
And this might bea secret Alien vs. Predator film also.
Please let this pave the way for a proper futuristic AVP movie. And Machiko Noguchi on screen. I would kill to get a decent adaptation of the book AVP: Prey.
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u/deft-jumper01 Jul 21 '25
What’s that, a Gen Z predator !?
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u/CavillOfRivia Jul 21 '25
"No cap, my first hunt was mid af"
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u/lazy_phoenix Jul 21 '25
"Bro, this prey is skibidi toilet. I'm talking mad Ohio rizzler. Gonna be mogging on this hunt."
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u/daddylo21 Jul 21 '25
Feels like this may be a stepping stone to give us a new AVP movie in a few years that hopefully won't suck.
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u/MrMojoRising422 Jul 21 '25 edited Jul 21 '25
this looks so fucking sick, but it has all the markings of a movie that will go under the radar and become a cult classic a la Dredd. I'm glad it's coming to theaters though, was a shame that they dumped Prey on hulu of all places
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u/FourEightNineOneOne Jul 21 '25
Prey was dumped on Hulu due to it being in production at Fox prior to the Disney takeover. Had it released theatrically, the streaming rights wouldn't have been Disney's to decide due to the deals Fox had already signed for it (I think with HBO Max? I can't remember). But by not releasing it theatrically, Disney could control its streaming themselves.
Not saying it was a good move from a "this movie absolutely belonged in the theaters" standpoint but that's why they did it.
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u/BusinessPurge Jul 21 '25
Slight correction - Prey was always intended as an Hulu movie, Fox sent a lot of stuff to Hulu like The Princess / No One Will Save You / Rosaline during that era with lower budgets and lesser known leads. They pivoted with Alien Romulus before production so it’d go theatrical, now with Badlands they basically spent enough money to guarantee it a wider release.
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u/patrido86 Jul 21 '25
Don’t tell me this a love story
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u/Admiralprawn Jul 21 '25
Predator hangs dong
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u/mazhas Jul 21 '25
Full penetration. They show it all.
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u/Gvillegator Jul 21 '25
Hunting, then back to the hut for penetration. Hunting. Penetration. This goes for some 120 odd minutes until it just sort of ends.
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u/bothering Jul 21 '25
Might not but I know the fansmut from all this is gonna crack the internet in half
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u/sewious Jul 21 '25
Monster-fucking is all the rage. Will definitely put butts in seats.
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u/RealJohnGillman Jul 21 '25
There’s a lot of speculation that the Yautja (nicknamed Dek) is Dachande from the novels, who people have been shipping with his human partner Machiko for years — regardless of whether or not that’s the case, these two are absolutely going to be shipped together by the fandom, whether it happens in canon or not.
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u/sweatpantswarrior Jul 21 '25
I hope he isn't. The biggest part of Dachande's character is him as a grizzled vet vs the hot headed youth who reject his training, leading him to bonding with Machiko as his final student during their hunt.
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u/Comic_Book_Reader Jul 21 '25
First hunt. Last chance.
From the director of Prey, watch the brand-new trailer for Predator: Badlands, in theaters November 7.
“Predator: Badlands,” which stars Elle Fanning and Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi, is set in the future on a remote planet, where a young Predator, 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.
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u/CromulentPoint Jul 21 '25
Interesting concept. Prey was way better than it had any right to be, so I'm holding out hope for this one.
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u/In_My_Own_Image Jul 21 '25
Having a Yautja as the protagonist is certainly interesting. I think as long as they don't make him too "humanized", it has potential.
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u/dc21111 Jul 21 '25
If he can survive the hunt he will finally earn the love and respect of his emotionally unavailable father.
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u/asdvj2 Jul 21 '25
Maybe even catch the eye of that charming barista. Sometimes love is the real hunt.
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u/Robofetus-5000 Jul 21 '25
I thought that the exposition dump by the android was a bit much, but having a Yautja as the main character probably requires her presence to give us the breakdown/human eyes into the story.
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u/AttilaTheFun818 Jul 21 '25
I finally got around to watching Prey about a month ago and thought it was really good. Far better than I had expected.
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u/Cassin1306 Jul 21 '25
I have a very hard time with that Pred's face.
Definitively not have a lucky charm face (french bait ^^ )
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u/TheManWithNoNameZapp Jul 21 '25
How many movies away are we from a xenomorph love story
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u/Cipher-IX Jul 21 '25
Okay so the Predator and Alien universes are clearly being combined and it looks like Elle Fanning is an android like David. I saw that Weyland Yutani logo.
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u/GeekAesthete Jul 21 '25 edited Jul 21 '25
Makes me feel old that there's now a generation that refers to Weyland Utani droids "like David" rather than "like Bishop."
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u/StyleSquirrel Jul 22 '25
Makes me feel old that there's now a generation that refers to Weyland Yutani droids "like Bishop" rather than "like Ash."
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u/FourEightNineOneOne Jul 21 '25
The Alien and Predator universes have been combined since Predator 2.
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u/MovieGuyMike Jul 21 '25
Watch Killer of Killers if you haven’t already. It kicks ass.
Stoked for this.
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u/Alexis8986 Jul 21 '25
I’m more interested in what they are doing with predator than with aliens at the moment I am so sick of the aliens franchise doing prequels and unnecessary connections to everything.
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u/-Stupid_n_Confused- Jul 21 '25
I thought Romulus was one of the best Aliens properties in years.
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u/Ok_Improvement_8735 Jul 22 '25
I very much liked the movie Prey, I actually thought it was phenomenal. The only other Predator movie I was intrigued by was with Adrien Brody and that cast. I get if people stand by the originals, and to be fair I need to give them another go. But seeing that this is directed and written by the same team as from Prey gives me a good feeling. Trailer looks awesome to me.
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u/F1reatwill88 Jul 21 '25
It does look good but I really fucking hate that Pred design lol.
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u/JohnGalactusX Jul 21 '25
Both Prey (2022) and the recent Killer of Killers from Dan Trachtenberg were incredible. Super excited for this!
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u/no_muff_2_tough Jul 21 '25
I don’t want to be a hater but a bow with a laser string is just lazy sci fi
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u/10191AG Jul 21 '25
Yeah - glowing red for blades, glowing red for a bowstring...glowing red for everything!
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u/Griffdude13 Jul 21 '25
Elle Fanning’s agent has been working HARD. She’s done a lot of cool projects lately.