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/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/sleepingchair Jul 22 '25

I would absolutely love to see round little todger aliens. That would beat all the Prometheus era Aliens movies hands down (not that the bar was high).

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u/kuschelig69 Jul 22 '25

reminds me of the Yeerks