Shock! In line with Steve Asbell, the top of Disney-owned twentieth Century Studios, Predator Badlands isn’t the one Predator movie releasing in 2025. Oh, and we’d get one other Alien Vs. Predator movie, too.
Again in August, it was reported that the following Predator film was already filming. That film’s existence has been confirmed since and we now know that Predator Badlands will hit theaters subsequent 12 months. The movie is being directed by Dan Trachtenberg, who additionally directed 2022’s Prey, a improbable Hulu-exclusive Predator sequel. So we all know Trachtenberg is doing Badlands, however apparently earlier than that releases, he has a shock, completely different Predator movie that is perhaps an animated anthology.
In an October 24 interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Asbell answered a bunch of questions on upcoming twentieth Century tasks, like Avatar, Alien, and even Velocity 3. However essentially the most fascinating bit of reports was the affirmation {that a} secret, beforehand unknown Predator film goes to reach someday subsequent 12 months earlier than Badlands.
“After Prey grew to become successful, Dan [Trachtenberg] got here again and mentioned he didn’t wish to do Prey 2,” mentioned Asbell, “And we’re like, ‘What do you wish to do?’ And he rattled off a bunch of concepts that have been actually loopy however actually cool.”
“We’ve really achieved two of them. Two are popping out subsequent 12 months. One I can’t speak about but, however the different one is the live-action Predator movie with Elle Fanning that simply wrapped in New Zealand. That’ll be out theatrically someday subsequent 12 months. It’s titled Badlands and it’s a completely bonkers thought. It’s a sci-fi factor, but it surely’s not what everyone thinks it’s. And I imply, it’s superior. It’s so nuts. However in Dan, we belief.”
Asbell didn’t say a lot concerning the different Predator film, however did counsel it received’t be launched in theaters and confirmed Tractenberg additionally directed it.
An animated Predator film and extra AVP
On Friday, IO9 additional reported that they’d heard from sources that the shock Predator film is an animated anthology that includes three completely different tales involving completely different warriors all through historical past preventing Predators. One is presumably about pirates, one is reportedly about samurai, and no particulars have been shared concerning the third story. Disney didn’t present a remark to the outlet earlier than publication.
Nonetheless, an animated Predator anthology about numerous warriors from the previous taking over the intergalactic bounty hunter sounds much like Prey and would doubtless be one thing launched solely on Hulu and never in theaters, which strains up with what Asbell informed THR.
In the meantime, in that very same interview with The Hollywood Reporter, the twentieth Century Studios boss additionally mentioned it was doubtless we might ultimately get one other Alien Vs Predator film, however “it wouldn’t be in the way in which you suppose.”
“That’s the factor. Not in the way in which that it’ll simply be known as Alien vs. Predator or something like the unique films,” defined Asbell. “If we do that, they’ll be organically created out of those two franchises that we’ve continued with characters that we fall in love with and people characters will mix…maybe. However we haven’t gotten to that time. And we’re not simply going to bang it out.”
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