When the Predator: Badlands trailer landed, one detail set the internet alight – a brief shot of Elle Fanning’s incoming android character Thia. Specifically, a quick flicker in her eyeball, revealing that she’s actually a synthetic. And not any synthetic – a Weyland-Yutani synthetic, the evil robo-bastard corporation from the Alien movies . It teased a potential Alien Vs. Predator rematch, for the first time since 2007’s Aliens Vs. Predator: Requiem .

As exciting as the possibility of a full-on Xenomorph-Yautja rematch might be, it seems fans might be getting a little ahead of themselves. As Trachtenberg tells Empire , this is a slow-burn crossover. “There’s no Xenomorph in this movie,” he confirms of Badlands . “But to me, that makes it more exciting. We’re n

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