Filmmaker Dan Trachtenberg and 20th Century Studios are going hunting again.
Trachtenberg, who earned an Emmy nomination for his 2022 Predator movie Prey, is returning to the sci-fi action horror franchise to make a new installment.
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.
As with Prey, Trachtenberg wrote the story with Patrick Aison, with the latter penning the screenplay. The project has been working under invisibility for some time and is far enough along that a July start of production is being planned.
Let's hope they target cinemas with this, and get a budget accordingly. Prey was pretty cheap, and looked like it (unlike, say, District 9, which punched way above its weight).
Deadline reports that Elle Fanning (The Neon Demon) is now in talks to star!
Dan Trachtenberg is on board to co-write and direct Badlands.
Deadline also suggests that 20th Century Studios is all-in on expanding the Predator universe with additional projects, and a direct sequel to Prey is also being discussed at this time.
Impressive. You would think someone in a board meeting along the OK procedure would be capable of making one joke that would kill that Pre-Butt-Da-Face-Tor
they made it talk like some native america roflol why a fucking youngster zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz an adult predator with full kit would have been more fun
I think giving the (a) predator a tangible backstory in the pattern of the circle hero's journey, ruins the mystique.
The trailer steals a bit of that 'unknown monster' vibe they have/had. Where what made them menacing was not knowing that they are 'like us' with very relatable human moments of fear, struggling in situations, frustrations, and fleeting moments of sense of self doubt. They humanized them and made them emotionally relatable, and ruined it to me.
A Predator "Coming of Age" movie is, to me, the best way to ruin them as 'cold calculating not human like at all' aliens.
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Impressive. You would think someone in a board meeting along the OK procedure would be capable of making one joke that would kill that Pre-Butt-Da-Face-Tor
an adult predator with full kit would have been more fun
