Predator: Badlands director Dan Trachtenberg has revealed that the new movie could have been Prey 2, but he ultimately decided that there are other, bigger things waiting for Naru.
"I think I would say there's a bigger plan down the line," Trachtenberg told Dexerto, when asked if he considered bringing Naru back for Badlands. "I did think about the pairing before it was Thia, but then I thought, 'Well, then I'm not doing the premise,' and I really wanted to do the premise: the Predator is protagonist, and no humans in the movie. And so it became further down the line we can do some cooler things, maybe."
