Badlands, the upcoming installment in the Predator franchise from Prey director Dan Trachtenberg, and it is a doozy. We've been reporting on the Elle Fanning-led film for a while now, but nothing could have predicted the bombshell that Trachtenberg revealed today in an exclusive interview with Empire.

Director Dan Trachtenberg hopes to build on the success of Prey by making the monster the hero in the latest Predator film.

Trachtenberg is making sure audiences are swept away by every twist and turn present in Predator: Badlands. Trachtenberg was given the opportunity to return to the Predator franchise after Prey became a success a couple of years ago.

Director Dan Trachtenberg breathed life back into the Predator franchise with his movie Prey , and now he’s developing two more Predator movies , one of which is titled Predator: Badlands . We’ve got some really interesting details to share for the new movie,

Director Dan Trachtenberg is revealing some new details about the next film in the Predator series, Predator: Badlands — including a fairly surprising (but very intriguing) tease about who the protagonist of it will be.

Earlier this week, we reported on the next standalone Predator movie, Badlands, landing a theatrical release slot on November 7, 2025 (previously held by Marvel Studios' Blade). Now, 20 th Century Studios boss Steve Asbell has dropped another shocker: There's a second Predator flick coming out next year, and it's been made in secret.

Badlands, director Dan Trachtenberg is flipping the script and making the titular creature a hero. In Empire Magazine’s exclusive preview of Predator: Badlands, Trachtenberg explained how he wanted a Predator that the audience could connect with and root for while still keeping its monstrous qualities.

B ack in February, it was announced that Prey director Dan Trachtenberg would become the first filmmaker to take the helm of two films in the Predator franchise, as he was moving

T he Predator franchise has, over the years, given us all kinds of heroes. We got Arnie’s rippling muscles in the original; Danny Glover’s LA cop in the sequel; a gaggle of re