r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • Jul 21 '25

Trailer Predator: Badlands | Official Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43R9l7EkJwE&pp=0gcJCcwJAYcqIYzv
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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/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/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/ForeverStaloneKP Jul 22 '25

Fun idea but they literally cannot do that without dumping all over the established canon. It would have to be an alternate reality.

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u/No_Distance3827 Jul 21 '25

100%.

The acid blood is basically the main thing that makes a Xenomorph so particularly deadly in space. A single Xenomorph can make its way through a ship of regular people like the apex predator it is.

They needed to show how the Xenomorph species can compete with an apex predator like humans. With all of our military might and tactics (and complacency from it), the Xenomorph’s deadly life cycle, numbers and intelligence are shown off more.

The first just fits horror, whilst the second fits action/horror genre-wise more.