Predator: Badlands director Dan Trachtenberg wanted to make a movie that “hadn’t existed before”.

The 44-year-old director said he aimed to make the upcoming action flick a unique experience that fans haven’t seen in the Predator franchise before, much like he did with 2022’s Prey.

Speaking with Empire magazine about creating Predator: Badlands, Trachtenberg said: “You immediately think: Prey 2.

“But with sequels, people sometimes get so caught up going, ‘This could happen next,’ they never stop to think, ‘Should it happen next?’

“Prey was special because it was this big idea that hadn’t existed before. I wanted the next thing to be that, too.”

Trachtenberg described Predator: Badlands as a “kind of buddy-comedy” between Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi’s hunter Dek and Elle Fanning’s

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