Badlands’ Needs to be a Relationship Story

As the present steward of the Predator franchise, director Dan Trachtenberg appears very acutely aware of not repeating himself. Whereas followers are nonetheless holding out hope for Prey 2, there could be no complaints in regards to the scarcity of recent materials within the Predator universe. We already received the animated anthology movie Predator: Killer of Killers earlier this yr, and there’ll be a whole new flavor of sci-fi survival coming in November’s Predator: Badlands.

In a brand new interview with Empire, Trachtenberg teased simply how totally different Badlands goes to be. We already knew that the Predator itself will be the hero of this story, with an help from an android character crafted by one other acquainted sci-fi stalwart (Alien‘s sinister megacorp Weyland-Yutani) performed by Elle Fanning. However the nature of their pairing sounds… shocking, to say the least.

“Normally, I’m at all times in search of: what may occur solely in this film?” Trachtenberg defined to Empire.

He calls the top end result “a type of buddy-comedy,” because of the duo of Dek (the Predator—sure, it has a reputation!) and Thia (Fanning’s artificial character). “Prey was a solo survival story; it is a relationship story.”

Additionally it is, in fact, a “loopy journey in opposition to monsters and the weather—solely this time it’s a badass Predator in opposition to these issues. We needed Dek to be relatable, however with out turning him into Luke Skywalker. He’s nonetheless a Predator—we needed to enable him to be a dick. However a dick you’ll be able to root for.”

We will’t wait to see the way it all comes collectively when Predator: Badlands arrives November 7.

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