Where the Hell Did the Awesome Animated ‘Predator’ Movie Come From?

Most movie fans were surprised to hear we were getting not one, but two new Predator movies this year. We knew that Dan Trachtenberg, the director of Prey, was working on a live-action Predator movie with Elle Fanning. But then we heard, seemingly out of nowhere, that we were also getting an animated Predator movie. It’s called Predator: Killer of Killers, and it comes to Hulu June 6. Clearly, animated movies take some time, so this has been the plan all along, but we talked to both Trachtenberg and his co-director Josh Wassung about where this incredibly surprising and overly ambitious idea came from. “After Prey, I was trying to figure out what I would potentially do with the sequel,” Trachtenberg told io9 via video chat. “So often the sequel is just ‘the next installment of the thing that was cool’ rather than being ‘a thing that is cool in and of itself.’ So it’s really forcing myself to figure out what could I possibly do that could be cool also in the Predator franchise or in th ... Read full article.