Over the years, Predator fans have come to expect two things from each new movie: blood and carnage. With upcoming sequel Predator: Badlands, though, director Dan Trachtenberg hopes to inject some serious "fun" and humor into the long-running sci-fi horror franchise.
"I've made the comparison that it's like Chewbacca and C-3PO: The Movie. But C-3PO is the nervous Nellie; the fun of Thia is that she is really unflappable," Trachtenberg says in the cover feature of SFX magazine's latest issue, which hits newsstands on September 10. "She is positive under any circumstance. You get a flavor of that personality in the trailer when she pops into frame after slicing and dicing some crazy creatures. That is a really fun character to be stuck with a Predator, a Yautja that is a real hard ass and doesn't really want to talk too much, and is more like Clint Eastwood or Mad Max, or Conan even. So they're made for a really fun pairing and something that we haven't seen in Predator, but also in the Alien franchise."
