‘Predator: Killer of Killers’ Just Rules

After two divisive and ultimately failed attempts to revitalize the Predator franchise in the 2010s, 20th Century Studios found its stride with 2022’s Prey. While sadly locked to Hulu as a result of the Disney-Fox merger, that film was met with such a strong reception that it gave the sci-fi horror franchise the boost it’d been needing. Now, the studio is keeping that momentum going with two projects in 2025: Predator: Badlands in November, and this week’s animated Killer of Killers. Beyond their being linked by returning Prey director Dan Trachtenberg (co-directing here with Josh Wassung, and working off a script by Micho Robert Rutale from a story by Rutale and Trachtenberg), this future trilogy seems to have been made with the intent of bringing a specific set of ideas and concepts for the Predator franchise to fruition. On its own, that’s not surprising, as the franchise tried this before with its 2018 film, and its sibling series Alien also recently made this same play with 2024’ ... Read full article.