The First Glimpse of Predator: Badlands Is Full of Skulls and Snarls

Fans of the long-running Predator bid were delighted by the quality that Dan Trachtenberg—who made 2022’s Prey, which brought a caller jolt of vigor to the franchise—would beryllium continuing to steer the vessel with not one, but two caller movies. One is live-action escapade thriller Predator: Badlands, and the different is an until-now mysterious animated feature.

Today astatine CinemaCon’s Disney presumption unluckily didn’t uncover thing astir the animated film, but we’ve present got much to spell connected with Predator: Badlands. In summation to presenting creatures that are bigger, grosser, and person overmuch cooler high-tech weapons than thing we’ve seen from the bid before, Badlands volition airs a astonishing question: what if the Predator, ruthless intergalactic big-game hunter, was actually… the good guy?

“Something unpredicented happens successful this movie,” Badlands prima Elle Fanning told the CinemaCon audience. “My quality teams up with the Predator and you spot him successful a caller light.”

The archetypal footage unfolded arsenic follows:

A lair filled with skulls. Elle Fanning’s voice: “I didn’t deliberation you survived.” We’re connected immoderate benignant of alien planet. Vast landscapes, barren, and a spaceship flies into frame.

“The deadliest huntsman returns to the large screen,” the trailer says. The predator walks connected a mountain, Fanning’s quality has achromatic eyes that benignant of rotation backmost into her head. Everything connected the satellite is alien. The plants, the creatures, everything.

The trailer describes this arsenic “a satellite of hurt” and we spot the Predator himself being hunted. We thought Predators were atrocious but they’re thing compared to these creatures. They’re bigger. Grosser. “You’re hunting thing that can’t beryllium killed,” Fanning’s quality says.

We spot the main quality Predator lasting mid frame, his hairsbreadth pulled backmost into astir a pony tail, and helium does that classical snarl with each 4 fangs. We past spot what he’s snarling at. A massive, monolithic beast that starts jumping into the frame.

Predator: Badlands hits theaters November 7.

Additional reporting by Germain Lussier.

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