The Predator saga is in the midst of a major revival, with a handful of projects coming out in quick succession. Following the success of the quasi-prequel Prey in 2022, director Dan Trachtenberg has been working hard to expand the already-sprawling franchise. Two new films are premiering in 2025, the animated anthology Predator: Killer of Killers and the live-action Predator: Badlands, which is set much farther in the future than Prey.
At first glance, these three films don’t share much connective tissue. Beyond the presence of Yautja, the bloodthirsty alien race hellbent on conquering Earth, Trachtenberg’s trilogy explores three completely different time periods and characters. That said, they’re far more connected than they seem, and the filmmaker has a plan to tie things all together with another film, so long as Badlands (the first Predator film to hit theaters since 2018) stokes interest for more.
