We already knew that Prey director Dan Trachtenberg has the Elle Fanning-starring film, Predator: Badlands set to premiere in theaters in 2025. In a recent interview with The Hollywood Reporter, however, 20th Century Studios President Steve Asbell broke the news that Trachtenberg has also directed another Predator film, which is slated to come out next year—before Badlands.
Asbell didn’t say anything explicitly about this second, secret Predator film. The way he differentiated Badlands as a “theatrical” release and that it was “live-action,” however, suggests that it may premiere on streaming rather than theaters, and that it might animated. (That is entirely conjecture at this point, and might be me reading between the lines too much, but I think it’s a solid bet.)
As for Badlands, Asbell described it as “an absolutely bonkers idea.” He added, “It is a sci-fi thing, but it’s not what everybody thinks it is. And I mean, it’s awesome. It is so nuts. But in Dan, we trust.”
And if that isn’t enough Predator content for you, don’t fret: The 20th Century exec also said we’d “probably” see another Alien vs. Predator movie down the line. “It wouldn’t be in the way you think,” he said. “Not in the way that it will just be called Alien vs. Predator or anything like the original movies. If we do this, they’ll be organically created out of these two franchises that we’ve continued with characters that we fall in love with and those characters will combine… perhaps. But we haven’t gotten to that point. And we’re not just going to bang it out.” [ed note: I AM VERY EXCITED AND I’M FINE IF I AM ALONE IN THAT.]
Predator: Badlands will premiere in theaters on November 7, 2025. No news yet on when or where the secret Predator movie will be released, other than it will be sometime before November of next year.
