With the immensely successful launch of the animated anthology film Predator: Killer of Killers, and the upcoming anticipation for the live-action Predator: Badlands, which will feature at San Diego Comic-Con; director Dan Trachtenberg has been promoting and discussing his entries in the franchise in multiple previous interviews.
He has already revealed that after Prey, he had plans for at least 3 additional entries in the franchise. With Predator: Killer of Killers already released and Predator: Badlands releasing soon after, this year on November 7th, only the last project remains unnamed and with the fewest details known.
Recently, though, in an interview for SFX magazine, Dan Trachtenberg explained how eager and excited he is to get to the remaining third project.
The reason why I felt possessed to make them and sort of why I rushed – I did two at once because I could do, I could multitask with animation – was because I was so eager to get to the third thing.
Next, the director states how intentional and planned all of these films are:
There’s a lot of cool ideas out there and none of them are just like, ‘Oh, we have to say the next part of this story because it was successful.’ All of it is like, ‘Whoa, no one has done that in sci-fi. No one has done that in Predator. No one’s done that with the creature,’ all of those ideas are generated from that instinct. So, yeah, there is definitely a third thing that I’d love to get to when Badlands is finished.
The full interview with Dan Trachtenberg will be available in the latest issue of SFX magazine, which releases on June 18th.
[Update 19/06/25] – Previously, we covered Dan Trachtenberg stating that the third installment will feature Naru, from Prey.
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What kind of criticism is this lmao.
I love comics, I have collected every physically released Dark Horse AvP/Alien/Predator comic and short story. I have never understood 1718's appeal. Its a kind of silly cliche pirate story with a predator that looks nothing like Greyback. Its a fun little predator short comic, I like it. But the pedestal its been put on is a bit perplexing.
What does is twitter profile have to do with the quality of his movies?
Oh that's right, it's politics.
Can you actually criticize his movies without going political all the time?
A quick look at Trachtenberg's X profile when his name was announced before Prey gave me all the infos I needed about him.I knew he would roll over and make crap.This guy is so lame he thinks a pred/girl team up is groundbreaking, only it was done already in AVP and spawned tons of amvs of pred/girl romance.
The pred fan base endured so many bad movies, both AVP, Predators, The Predator,at that point they begged for a predator movie which is not a parody, and so they liked Prey. Prey is so bad it made the Adolini flintlock worthless. From Predator 1718 to some weak random guy with fake teeth.
I mean the faceless guards/henchmen all wearing the same bone armor. Felt like i've seen it done so many times in fantasy/scifi/historical epic stories. Every predator thus far has felt like a unique individual. Their own style, like a story was being told with their outfits, trinkets, weapons, and armor. This is true for all of them, aside from the captured jungle hunter from Predators. Including the first 3 predators in KoK and Feral, all unique... until that last act. Then its bone troopers that are uniform in appearance and then the muscle bro bone king. Could be storm troopers and Darth Vader and it wouldnt have mattered. Or Caesar and his elite guard.
It was jarring for me and not something I ever envisioned or wanted. I want my highly individualistic rastafarian hunters back, not whatever that last segment was.
The 4th act gave me only one sliver of hope. I only watched it once, so forgive me, its hazy. When the survivors are taken to the arena, a horn blows and the guards all kneel in what looks like reverance. More of that! I was thinking okay, lets see some ritualistic/spiritual/religious/mysterious/weird behavior. Some kind of reverence of this rare event they are partaking in, more tribalistic. But nope, it was all paper thin.
Absolutely nothing! Dan Trachtenberg has done it with Prey (an the majority of Killer of Killers) and he wants to do something different because in his own admission it is the best way to put butts in the seats.
I meant that it veers away from a predator dropping in for a weekend hunt and more and more towards MCU-type of multi film and other media storytelling that no longer produces a standalone story, and it wants to be grander than it needs to be. Like what is wrong with Predators as they were in the first two films?
I'd like clarification on this too. When I read comments like this, I interpret it as "I want Jungle Hunter as the base with new things added on". I'm sure you don't mean it so cut and dry like that though.
Would you mind telling us what actually that means? I happen to love the Feral look. In context to the story it doesn't mean anything against the priors so what on EARTH do you think you know that everyone doesn't because an ALIEN means simply that....nobody on this god given earth knows what an ALIEN looks like. Your comments are redundant.
It's the elements that do contradict film and comics that I take issue with, as it takes the base Predator model and turn it into something else completely.
He also activated one with a blow torch, so there were a lot of hints.
Good point
It's not that far-fetched that he would find out how they are hunting, since he saw that the harpoons were always targeting the engines and the harpoon b-lined for the falling fuel reserve on fire.
This!
That was also one of my big problems with KoK's third act, WW2 pilot with barely no experience figures out the ship hunts by seeing heat (if you ignore all the other physics defying things, but ok is animated).
Same in predators, they figure the preds out pretty quick and cheaply.
Yeah, I didn't interpret that as deliberate at all. Dan had also mentioned the hiding Underground getting around his IR was accidental too. I've never had a problem with the fur trappers having some knowledge of the Predator and his methods. There's implied time there and I don't need to know the exact details. It's these kind of gaps in the narrative I actually enjoy - where I can theorise and imagine what went on.
He grabbed Harrigan's neck and send him meters away, then he ran away. After that he loosed his left hand and destroyed 2 doors and a wall xD . Preds on the first two films were vicious as f***
A weapon they haven't seen him use before? Sure they're going to stare blankly at it.
But they knew enough about Feral being there to hunt "the strongest beast" and how to deactivate his invisibility. How they came to learn this are scenes that shouldn't have been cut from the movie.
Yeah, it seemed like they were going to follow up more on the red glow she saw in that scene but then didn't for whatever reason.
And then you have these 4, slow af dudes who spent an eternity looking at Feral's "proximity mines".
https://i.imgur.com/vfCeBfq.jpeg
This was one of my issues with Prey as well.
The way it was presented, the fur trappers were able to figure out a Predator's motives and tech quicker than Dutch's men.
Steve Asbell.
After being shot multiple times by Harrigan with his shotgun, City Hunter didn't "walk away like it was nothing", the dude passed out for a bit of time and had to use his rebreather, though to be fair I can't remember if it was mainly because he was injured or just because he needed to breathe after losing his biomask.
Now we have humans from 3 or 4 centuries ago that know how exactly the pred tech work just looking at it (that tech should be like "magic" to them).
I've read quite a few times here about how Feral was too resilient lol.
True for Dutch - I forget how one sided the final fight is.
It's a Predators onwards thing.
Isn't that this whole franchise? It's kinda the premise of every single film that's been released so far.
Make the pred more vicious and resilent again the lead character please...
Dan Trachtenberg is mentioning this incident in his interview with SFX Magazine saying he was there at SDCC when it happened, and skhellter just found an article published at the time, in July 2010!