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Jack Shepherd

Predator: Badlands director explains why the upcoming sci-fi movie is an "inversion" of the franchise: "This time, the Predator is the one being hunted"

Predator: Badlands.

Predator lovers are eating good this year. Not only has the critically acclaimed animated anthology Predator: Killer of Killers just dropped on Hulu and Disney Plus, but Predator: Badlands, a live-action sequel, releases in cinemas later this year.

As revealed in the much-talked-about teaser trailer, Badlands centres on an outcast member of the deadly Yautja species fighting his own after allying himself with an android, Thia, played by Elle Fanning and seemingly created by Weyland-Yutani (from the Alien movies). It's something of a curveball scenario, one of the fearsome Predators now being a main protagonist, hunted by his kind – and that's exactly how director Dan Trachtenberg likes it.

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