We Can’t Get Over the Alien Easter Egg in the New Predator Trailer

The first trailer for Predator: Badlands was released last week, and we’re still obsessing over it. The idea of having a Predator as the hero of a Predator movie is cool enough, but set on a planet filled with other species of badass, killer aliens? That’s just beyond awesome. And yet, those are merely the sprinkles on our obsession. The main focus is the massive, potentially world-building Easter egg 26 seconds in. Here it is if you don’t know what we’re talking about. So, in Predator Badlands, Elle Fanning plays a character named Thia. Thia looks pretty normal in that top image of her but a half second later, her eyes roll back and reveal something staggering: the logo for Weyland-Yutani. Weyland-Yutani, of course, is the evil corporation from the Alien franchise. The one that says it’s okay to kill everyone on the Nostromo in order to get the Alien back to Earth. The one that sends the Marines out to “kill” the creatures but really they’re just another sacrifice made while attempt ... Read full article.