Dan Trachtenberg doesn’t miss.

From 10 Cloverfield Lane (2016) and Prey (2021) to June’s Predator: Killer of Killers and this Friday’s Predator: Badlands , the Philadelphia native’s feature career continues to stockpile rave reviews. Badlands , which he co-conceived with his Prey writer Patrick Aison, blazes a new trail for the now 9-film franchise that began with John McTiernan’s 1987 classic, Predator .

Trachtenberg has now turned a Yautja, the well-established villain that is colloquially referred to as the Predator, into the protagonist of his latest installment. Furthermore, he’s paired the Yautja named Dek (Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi) with Elle Fanning ’s Weyland-Yutani synthetic known as Thia, who’s heavy on words and light on legs. Dek has been disca

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