20th Century Studios has released a new Predator: Badlands clip, titled “Tessa Online”. The clip offers a glimpse into Weyland-Yutani’s objectives and features a conversation between Elle Fanning’s Tessa and the AI MU/TH/UR.
The clip confirms that it is Tessa, not her sister Thia, as previously speculated from the recent “Priority One” TV spot, who is the focus of the laboratory scene and is undergoing repairs.
Throughout the clip, text overlays expose the company’s primary objective:
- “Priority One Remains. Acquire Specimen XX0522. Ensure Bio-Weapons Retrieval.”
The system then registers a threat from the Predator:
- “New Life Form Detected. Yautja. Potential Threat To Mission.”
MU/TH/UR warns Tessa: “Hello Tessa. The company is not pleased. Continued failure will result in your decommission”. When Tessa asks where her sister is, the computer delivers a grim update: “The Yautja has Thia”.
“Priority One Remains. Acquire Specimen XX0522. Ensure Bio-Weapons Retrieval.”
Predator: Badlands will hit cinemas in exactly one week.
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They have the tusk masks and very similar armour - so it could well be!
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I'd love to have seen Dan go in on it being a Xenomorph XX052 as well. I love Xenomorph as a catch-all name, but honestly, I'm just happy that XX121 and now XX is being taken on more. The creatives just need a little more context around it (all a part of my problem with Wikia fandom these days, lack of context).
For me, it's just that the way it's presented in Aliens makes it come across as a general catch-all term that Gorman is using. The "XX121" moniker at least makes it a bit more specific to the Alien as an individual creature.
It would have been nice if "Xenomorph" was a catch-all term for all of them, and then they had their own actual names, instead of the Alien being the only one ever referred to as such in the show.
In the movie continuity, that is. In Earth, it seems that just the Alien is the Xenomorph.
My logic is that the Company must have had some sort of significant communication with the Predators somehow to be able to develop the translation software anyway, so that'd be how they learn of how they call themselves.
Also, I had a little moment in the cinema when XX popped up on the screen. I love to see that appearing again. I loved it in Romulus too. I am such a happy little geek to see that detail continue.
I'd honestly never taken XX as being specific to creatures related to the black goo.
So, if they're calling it a "bio weapon", are we thinking it's been affected by the black goo?
The Kalisk, probably.
It's set far in the future after the alien movies, so it's not like this is a prequel situation were the tech looks more advanced than the movies that are set after.
because inevitably somebody is going to pop up complaining about how this isn't retro-future aesthetic and why is MU/TH/UR talking.
Anyway, the real question is why Mu/th/ur needs to remind Tessa that she'll be binned if she keeps failing. Kinda feels like as a synth she's be hyper aware of the consequences of failing.
The funny thing is since I watched the first alien movie in French when I was child, Muthur always had a voice for me.
We saw the word in Killer of Killers.
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Well, Weyland-Yutani are clearly aware of them and have been for a long time.
How could WY know the term? Past captured Yautja told them?
Also, who's voice is narrating that last trailer? Sounds like someone with an african english accent, even though there are no humans in the movie. Some other synth we haven't seen?
Not really, although it's Tessa being repaired rather than Thia as I initially thought. Weyland-Yutani use the term Yautja too.
Hope wider audiencie too..