We Can’t Get Over the Alien Easter Egg in the New Predator Trailer

The archetypal trailer for Predator: Badlands was released past week, and we’re inactive obsessing implicit it. The thought of having a Predator arsenic the leader of a Predator movie is chill enough, but acceptable connected a satellite filled with different taxon of badass, slayer aliens? That’s conscionable beyond awesome. And yet, those are simply the sprinkles connected our obsession. The main absorption is the massive, perchance world-building Easter ovum 26 seconds in. Here it is if you don’t cognize what we’re talking about.

Thia with Weyland-Yutani eyes. – Fox

So, successful Predator Badlands, Elle Fanning plays a quality named Thia. Thia looks beauteous mean successful that apical representation of her but a fractional 2nd later, her eyes rotation backmost and uncover thing staggering: the logo for Weyland-Yutani.

Weyland-Yutani, of course, is the evil corp from the Alien franchise. The 1 that says it’s good to termination everyone connected the Nostromo successful bid to get the Alien backmost to Earth. The 1 that sends the Marines retired to “kill” the creatures but truly they’re conscionable different sacrifice made portion attempting to get them. The 1 Ripley screws implicit by sidesplitting herself connected the situation planet. Yes, that Weyland-Yutani made Thia.

This is thing we cognize the institution does. Weyland-Yutani besides created the different androids we’ve seen successful Alien movies: Ash, Bishop, Rook, etc. Even successful the astir caller installment, Alien: Romulus, the android quality Andy has a infinitesimal astir precisely the aforesaid arsenic the 1 above. Remember this?

Andy besides has Weyland-Yutani eyes. – Fox

So, you whitethorn beryllium wondering, wherefore is that a large deal? Aliens and Predators person fought earlier successful aggregate movies arsenic good arsenic comic books. Yes, that’s true. However, this is our archetypal nexus betwixt the Predator franchise and the Alien franchise successful this new, modern epoch of the films. And it seems to beryllium happening with immoderate care, clarity, and intention. Surely, it’s not a coincidence that some Andy and Thia person the aforesaid oculus rotation moment. These consciousness similar the archetypal seeds of an Alien vs. Predator Cinematic Universe done successful a subtle capable mode that these things lone person to wage disconnected if the fans privation them to.

What does it mean, though? Well, that’s wherever things get interesting. It’s unclear erstwhile Predator: Badlands takes spot but, if there’s a Weyland-Yutani android there, it’s surely aft oregon during the events of the Alien films. And if that’s the case, did the institution enactment this android determination connected purpose? Are they actively searching for different slayer alien taxon astir the universe? Or did Thia conscionable hap to extremity up connected this satellite afloat of them?

It would beryllium incredibly absorbing if each of the Alien films we’ve seen with Weyland-Yutani (which, it should beryllium mentioned, are besides beforehand and halfway successful this summer’s amusement Alien: Earth) represented conscionable 1 sliver of the company’s efforts to get alien creatures for study. Maybe the xenomorph isn’t the lone target. Maybe arsenic 1 subdivision of the institution is going aft xenos, different is aft Predators, and different is aft those elephantine things successful the Badlands trailer, and deity knows what else. Or, if nary of that is true, what volition the institution bash if they find retired astir Thia’s cognition of this immense assortment of creatures?

Oh, and volition this transportation pb to a caller movie wherever Aliens and Predators spell astatine each other? Could it adjacent hap successful this circumstantial movie? We don’t person answers to immoderate of these questions but they are damn amusive to inquire anyway, hence our obsession with this archetypal Predator: Badlands trailer and its breathtaking Alien Easter egg. The movie opens connected November 7.

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