We have a new Predator film in the works from the director of 2022’s acclaimed ‘Prey’! Director Dan Trachtenberg will be bringing us a new movie in the Predator universe currently under the title of ‘Badlands.’ News of this project has just hit the movie news circuit after being posted by a name we’ve seen a lot with these updates, The Hollywood Reporter.
Trachtenberg will once again be teaming up with writer Patrick Aison to develop the story, with Aison writing the screenplay. According to them, this film will feature another female lead but won’t be a direct sequel to Prey, taking place in the future rather than the past and that filming may start as soon as this July!:
“Titled Badlands, the new Predator feature is not a sequel to Prey, which was set in 1719 and centered on a young Comanche woman forced to fight for survival against the intergalactic hunters, but rather a brand new story. Plot details are being kept secret but this one is said to be set sometime in the future. Like Prey, however, it too will feature a female lead.”
The ‘Feral’ Predator in the film ‘Prey’
The Hollywood Reporter also mentions this isn’t the only Predator project currently in the works. According to Deadline’s report on Predator: Badlands, a Prey 2 remains in development, with Amber Midthunder’s Naru likely to return!
Since that successful relaunch, 20th Century is looking to not just move forward with another film but expand on a universe with Trachtenberg spearheading it. Sources say while it is still in early development, a Prey 2 is still in the works that would return to the films original setting and with the films star, Amber Midthunder, potentially returning. Sources stress no talent is attached to that film but the interesting element is that even though there has been seven films featuring the infamous alien, there has never been an instance where the star of a previous film has returned to reprise their role.
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But who knows how things are going to play out. At the point we don't even know if Trachtenberg plans to personally direct Prey 2!
does anyone think they'd go for it and aim for a 2026 release for Prey 2?
Anyways I'm looking forward to that in the sequel.
You have people from hundreds of years ago going up against an invisible foe, it's only natural that we'd hear more demon talk.
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I do like Feral's face, though. Wouldn't want every Predator to look like him, but, as an individual, I think it works for this particular guy.
Hate may be a bit strong. But I don't like it and it hasn't really grown on me. Hoping that Dan goes in a different direction with the face for the sequels.
It wasn't enough for me, although I found him quite entertaining to watch.
No single change is an issue, and no single change is inexplicable.
But combined, the final result is something that feels more like a high tech Jason than a Predator. That might be a perfectly valid thing for a Predator to be, but to me, it's not what I'm here for.
Is the same to me as the AvPR Aliens compared to the originals. Sure they run on walls and ambush and what have you, but watch that movie side by side with the originals and tell me you don't see a remarkable difference.
Well, i don't know if that is really fair.
We did see Feral temporarily run away from Taabe after he got humilliated by him in a fair one-on-one.
We also saw Feral take a break (after killing the French) and heal his wounds.
Yes, he was a little more reckless than most Predators, but i think it was because this was his first hunt.
The Predators are not a Hive like Xeno, so i still think that it is important for each Predator to have some unique personality trait.
The Feral Predator was a Yautja that liked to get his hands dirty and to engage in physical close combat, getting more confident and cockier as he climbed the ladder of the food chain.
Normally when characters catch a monster in a trap, or wound it, it gives the humans enough time to run away. In a Predator movie, it's the opposite - the Predator runs away.
Feral just keeps going, like Jason or the Terminator or any number of damage sink movie villains.
And that's all without going into the face.
Any one of the big changes in isolation would be fine, but all together what makes the Predator more than just a high tech Jason is gone.
Much agreed, but bombs the forest when he gets bored, that seems so Predator to me.
But maybe Badlands will show that.
I prefer to choose someone who made a good pred movie, like McTiernan or Hopkins.
if any Predator director gets to direct a AVP too... it's him.
Not so much a waste of his time if he's enjoying doing it.
I only really speculate this because, despite AVP as a concept usually drawing most heavily from Aliens' iconography and worldbuilding, it is also a crossover that seems to tend to resonate a bit more on the Predator side of things more so than the Alien one, and with Trachtenberg now A.) basically spearheading the Predator brand and B.) taking Predator into the future with Badlands...
I meant trans female I think. She was born male and had sex change. I don't know if its cosmetic or if they can actually change your biological sex in the future.
I wrote a silly fan script a few years before Superman Returns when I was in college. It was posted on a script website. Bro. I REALLY feel like I got to see some of that on film lol. Not impossible to be coincidental, but we were not just in the ball park, but in the infield.
Yep. I really like the bones of what the movie seems to want to be, and the first half has a fair amount going for it in what it's setting up (though it really doesn't have that OOMPH that you'd expect something with this concept to have propelling it), but in the second half it kind of just unravels and deflates and what it did have going for it kind of just peters out.
Can't bring myself to hate it, there's good stuff in there but overall there's not enough to it to really elicit any kind of real emotion out of me, but it does bum me out to think about how it never really amounts to the sum of its parts, because the parts that it does have going for it, in theory, could have been a cool direction for this franchise could have taken.
Ah well. At least we have Prey now!
Still fries my mind a bit thinking that Predators straight up had another random alien in the film, and yet didn't cash in on that idea.