The First Glimpse of Predator: Badlands Is Full of Skulls and Snarls

Fans of the long-running Predator series were delighted by the news that Dan Trachtenberg—who made 2022’s Prey, which brought a fresh jolt of energy to the franchise—would be continuing to steer the ship with not one, but two new movies. One is live-action adventure thriller Predator: Badlands, and the other is an until-now mysterious animated feature. Today at CinemaCon’s Disney presentation unfortunately didn’t reveal anything about the animated film, but we’ve now got more to go on with Predator: Badlands. In addition to presenting creatures that are bigger, grosser, and have much cooler high-tech weapons than anything we’ve seen from the series before, Badlands will pose a surprising question: what if the Predator, ruthless intergalactic big-game hunter, was actually… the good guy? “Something unpredicented happens in this movie,” Badlands star Elle Fanning told the CinemaCon audience. “My character teams up with the Predator and you see him in a new light.” The first footage unf ... Read full article.