Disney’s panel at CinemaCon has ended a few hours ago in Las Vegas and there is heaps of Predator: Badlands news. Various media outlets have been reporting what was shown.
Actress Elle Fanning was on stage to talk about the film, and she confirms she plays a character called Thia. While we previously knew that Predator: Badlands would see a Predator step up as a protagonist, Fanning also revealed that her character teams up with the Predator.
“Something unprecedented happens in this movie, and my character is not the one being chased. My character actually teams up with the Predator, and you get to see him in a whole new light.”
According to ThatHashTagshow, Thia and the new Predator are on the hunt for “something that can’t be killed.” Some outlets are also commenting that Thia maybe cybernetic or augmented. According to Discussing Film, the footage shows her “we see her eyes roll to all white” which sounds a lot like Alien: Romulus’ Andy when he reboots.
During the panel, some concept art was also shown. You can make out the Predator mask. This is also the first look at the Predator: Badlands logo.
Predator: Badlands Trailer Footage
A trailer for Predator Badlands was also shown. The Predator crash lands on an alien planet and has to fight to survive. The Predator is the one being hunted by much bigger beasts, including a “giant ass kaiju-beast all by himself.” Elle Fanning’s character helps him. There’s a shot of a few dozen people hunting the Predator.
The trailer reportedly shows off the Predator using a speeder bike and a sword that heats up at the end. There’s a quick glimpse of the Predator without his helmet, and it reportedly looks a closer to Classic’s design but with a darker skin tone.
Gizmodo has posted a fairly detailed summary of the footage, which you can check out below!
A lair filled with skulls. Elle Fanning’s voice: “I didn’t think you survived.” We’re on some kind of alien planet. Vast landscapes, barren, and a spaceship flies into frame.
“The deadliest hunter returns to the big screen,” the trailer says. The predator walks on a mountain, Fanning’s character has white eyes that kind of roll back into her head. Everything on the planet is alien. The plants, the creatures, everything.
The trailer describes this as “a planet of hurt” and we see the Predator himself being hunted. We thought Predators were bad but they’re nothing compared to these creatures. They’re bigger. Grosser. “You’re hunting something that can’t be killed,” Fanning’s character says.
We see the main character Predator standing mid frame, his hair pulled back into almost a pony tail, and he does that classic snarl with all four fangs. We then see what he’s snarling at. A massive, massive beast that starts jumping into the frame.
Prior to introducing Ellie Fanning, we also had a new description of the plot of Predator: Badlands from the host, who explained that the film revolves around:
“When a young warrior is outcast from his clan on a [indistinguishable] planet, he discovers he must fight to the top of the food chain but he’s not alone on this journey…”
Predator: Badlands is directed by Prey’s Dan Trachtenberg and will be released November 7, 2025. Thanks to MudButt, ace3g, Joel Foster and Justin Beard for the various links!
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Also, the predators have been styling their dreads in different ways in the expanded media for a while now, so why should it be concerning that a predator is finally going to have its dreads styled in a different way, compared to every predator in the movies that let them loose in the same way!
The motorbike is the only thing that I'm mixed about, but even that will depend on the execution of how it's used!
I'm genuinely concerned by the fact you're literally genuinely concerned by people having different tastes than you.
Yeah it's a username. It doesn't mean anything, for me there is no such thing as a yauta in the pred movies.
I don't even consider the preds after Grayback to be real preds, they are just failed attempts.
I'm genuinely concerned by the fact that a short and ponytailed predator using a pred motorbike is not triggering most of you. Badlands will be the RoboCop 3 of the franchise, a ponytailed hero pred using a motorbike, reminds me of the ridiculous flying robocop. And the pred dialogue...Imagine if Grayback had a dialogue scene with the lost preds, deciding to spare or not Harrigan, imagine how ridiculous it would've been. This is what you will get.
Only thing I can agree with is that "Dek" is kind of a hard pill to swallow for me just because it reminds me of the fun goofy 2000s video game characters like Jak and Daxter but mehhhhh....
It is far too late for that.
As opposed to the "Yautja" moniker, which attempted to impose a big blanket "honor code" and societal structure onto the species at large.
But the one named individual with a seemingly notable difference in personality from his predecessors is going to fundamentally undermine the race.
not sure how getting to know one (1) pred better is supposed to permanently close the door on ever having an intimidating villainous and mysterious pred in the future.
(we're already getting at least 3 more of those as well this year)
That's why they filmed it in New-Zealand!
You literally have "Yautja," the term that's most responsible for humanizing the Predators in the entire history of their existence as a fictional species, as part of your username.
Giving one a name isn't a step too far honestly especially since we always give them nicknames either way. It's a movie where one is the main character I mean come on lol fans only been asking for this for decades.
Let's not giving the pred a name, because naming him is humanizing it, wich is not the way to go.
You are welcome to come up with other names.
So he thought the Predator design was awesome...interesting. Of course, that tells us absolutely nothing about how he actually looks, whether conforming more to the classic Jungle Hunter/City Hunter or Feral or neither. But that has perked my interest a bit more now...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0x6TML5e8mM&t=3591s
As expected.
It wasn't goofy per se, but as others said, it started with a very 80s action movie feel, the first part up till the end of their assault on the rebel camp, could have pass for a literal Commando sequel. Up to that point, Arnie's "Dutch" character could be the same as "John Matrix" but with a name change.
Then the movie kinda switches genre to become a sci-fi mystery horror. I guess that's the appeal of the original, how it subverted expectation, lulling the audience into thinking its another Rambo/Commando muscle men action flick, only to switch completely later on.
That would make sense. Or it could be a completely new and original monster. And just how big would this kaiju be? "Kaiju" already means giant monster, but just how big? One could almost imagine the Predator taking on some well known Kaiju line up from the franchise of Godzilla and Gamera. Predator fights Godzilla/King Ghidorah/Kong/Mothra/Rodan/Gamera/SpaceGodzilla/Biollante/Destroyah/Hedorah...just imagine the possibilities, hahaha.
But is the kauju really the final boss for "Dek" the Predator? The one Fanning's character said to be unkillable? And why would it be unkillable? Simply too big and powerful? Has regenerative abilities (chop off the arm and leg and it grows back almost instantly?), or drank some elixier of life to make it immortal...it will rise up from the grave after being killed?
Just without the f**king P2 interior mumble grumble
https://www.space.com/entertainment/space-movies-shows/predator-badlands-trailer-shown-at-cinemacon-shows-the-hunter-becoming-the-hunted-but-the-rest-of-us-will-have-to-wait-to-see-it
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Thank goodness, the only cross species instances I can recall from Predator was Hunter Borgia in Predator Concrete Jungle, the Fugitive Predator and the Ultimate Predator from The Predator 2018 and Dutch's Predator/Yautja Blood transfusion from Predator Hunting Grounds.
Can I ask Mike
(WARNING, PLEASE DON'T SAY WHAT IT IS IF YOU KNOW SO NO SPOILERS GET OUT PLEASE) Do you know what the TWIST SET UP at the END is?
Don't believe everything you hear on the internet, folks. This one ain't true.
If anything, it's going to be a hunter and guide/handler situation. This is an unknown alien death world and Thia apparently knows her way around the block. Some kind of mutual benefit is what ties them together I bet, seeing how apparently this Predator is also going to be outnumbered and hunted by other humans too.
Dan wouldn't dare.
Speaking of iconic quotes tho....there better not be any callbacks. Just let the film create it's own memorable dialogue please. One thing I hate about modern day cinema when its on old IPs is the need to always include old phrases where new fresh ones could have taken over instead.
There's still levels to this, people comparing it to the goofiness of movies like Commando drive me crazy.
The only thing I would ever change about Predator is cutting out most of Arnie's lines at the end. Everything between "Get to the chopper!" and "You're one ugly motherf**ker" is unnecessary. And then cut out "Bad idea" (which I always remember as being before the MF line for some reason)
Also I checked and it's actually over an hour between Billie's laugh and "You're one ugly motherf**ker". The only thing resembling a joke in between is Dillon's "What are you going to try next? Cheese?"
"Stick around"
"Knock knock"