The newest Predator film, Predator: Badlands, looks like it's reinvigorating the franchise all over again, by also making the entire thing into a low-key Alien movie. While the previous trailer teased that Elle Fanning’s character Thia is an android built by Weyland-Yutani from the Alien franchise, the newest full-length trailer establishes that fact much more clearly. And, in the grand tradition of Weyland-Yutani robots, it looks like Thia will be partially dismembered, but taken along for the ride anyway.
In the new trailer for Predator: Badlands, we see that this unlikely team-up movie will find Thia losing all her limbs, but getting strapped to the back of a young Predator named Dek (Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi) on its first hunt. While the image of Thia strapped to the back of a monster might make you think of Chewbacca strapping a dismembered C-3PO to his furry person in The Empire Strikes Back, it also seems like Badlands is paying a more direct homage to another Weyland-Yutani robot: David (Michael Fassbender) from Ridley Scott’s 2011 Alien prequel film Prometheus.
