Secret Predator Movie releasing in 2025!

[MudButt]

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/predator-movie-an-alien-sequel-speed-3-1236042464/

Here's a big one. Will the next Predator movie get a theatrical release? [Editors note: this conversation took place before Disney dated Predator: Badlands for a 2025 release in theaters.

Yes. And no.

You're killing me here.

Yes, a Predator movie will have a theatrical. I'll tell you very simply. After Prey became a success, Dan [Trachtenberg] came back and said he didn't want to do Prey 2. And we're like, "What do you want to do?" And he rattled off a bunch of ideas that were really crazy but really cool. We've actually done two of them. Two are coming out next year. One I can't talk about yet, but the other one is the live-action Predator film with Elle Fanning that just wrapped in New Zealand. That'll be out theatrically sometime next year.

You're blowing my mind. Let's tackle this one at time. One Predator movie is coming out theatrically?

It's titled Badlands and it is an absolutely bonkers idea. It is a sci-fi thing, but it's not what everybody thinks it is. And I mean, it's awesome. It is so nuts. But in Dan, we trust.

Now you said there's a second Predator movie.

There's a second Predator movie that we have different plans for. Dan has actually directed both.

So there's a secret Predator movie—

There's a secret Predator movie that will come out before the theatrical one but I can't say anything about yet.

Fine. Will we eventually see another Alien vs. Predator?

Probably.

Not sure how I feel about that.

It wouldn't be in the way you think. That's the thing. Not in the way that it will just be called Alien vs. Predator or anything like the original movies. If we do this, they'll be organically created out of these two franchises that we've continued with characters that we fall in love with and those characters will combine...perhaps. But we haven't gotten to that point. And we're not just going to bang it out.

[Nightmare Asylum]

What the hell??? Sounds like an animated streaming release for this other one, then? I'm in!

[MudButt]

What the hell??? Sounds like an animated streaming release for this other one, then? I'm in!

It's either that or some sort of live-action short film. Im excited that Trachtenberg directed whatever it is though!

[Nightmare Asylum]

What the hell??? Sounds like an animated streaming release for this other one, then? I'm in!

It's either that or some sort of live-action short film. Im excited that Trachtenberg directed whatever it is though!

The fact that he specifies that Badlands is live action has me really thinking animated here, but hey, only time will tell!

[Wysps]

I'm on board the animated train 🚞

EDIT: A live-action short would be cool too.  Just seems like there was at least some interest in going the animated route when that canned project was created.

[SisterJill]

Predator anime set in edo era Japan. Predator hunting Samurai. I'm calling it right now.

[MudButt]

I'm on board the animated train 🚞

EDIT: A live-action short would be cool too.  Just seems like there was at least some interest in going the animated route when that canned project was created.

Nightmare Aslyum correctly pointed out that Asbell describes Badlands as the live action project which potentially tells us that this secret project is not live-action!

[Xenomrph]

Predator movie set 3 minutes after the Big Bang confirmed

[Nightmare Asylum]

Predator anime set in edo era Japan. Predator hunting Samurai. I'm calling it right now.

Would love this to be the case.

Also, I wonder if maybe Prey 2 is no longer on the cards, based on the comments about Trachtenberg not wanting to do that in this article? Or, perhaps, if it is happening, then maybe Dan isn't personally directing it...

[Preydator]

Oh hell yeah, this is the kind of news I live for! So freaking excited.

And the fact Steve Asbell is calling Badlands "bonkers" and "nuts"...

Oh man all these projects can't come soon enough.

[MudButt]

Predator anime set in edo era Japan. Predator hunting Samurai. I'm calling it right now.

Would love this to be the case.

Also, I wonder if maybe Prey 2 is no longer on the cards, based on the comments about Trachtenberg not wanting to do that in this article? Or, perhaps, if it is happening, then maybe Dan isn't personally directing it...

Maybe he just didn't want to do it next? But the comments do seem to indicate he's not interested in a sequel, which I'm fine with.. Naru's story seems complete.

[Corporal Hicks]

Well now you all know what I was teasing yesterday. Timing on that. 

[Preydator]

Predator anime set in edo era Japan. Predator hunting Samurai. I'm calling it right now.

Would love this to be the case.

Also, I wonder if maybe Prey 2 is no longer on the cards, based on the comments about Trachtenberg not wanting to do that in this article? Or, perhaps, if it is happening, then maybe Dan isn't personally directing it...

I feel like maybe he just wanted to go somewhere else before doing Prey 2? If he's indeed "in charge" of the Predator universe, he probably wants to play more with the timeline instead of sticking to the same period two movies in a row.

[Nightmare Asylum]

Well now you all know what I was teasing yesterday. Timing on that. 

Do you guys happen to know any more details than what was shared here?

[The Shuriken]

WTF is going on?!