The Alien and Predator franchises are currently dominating Hollywood in a surprisingly similar fashion. Both franchises have recently flipped the script in key ways with projects like Predator: Badlands and Alien: Earth , expanding what each respective (yet connected) franchise is capable of with bold new directions.

In more ways than one, these recent entries in 2025 have evolved beyond sci-fi survival horror. Incredibly creative and unique in their own right, here's how each has similarly entered new narrative spaces, and how both the Alien and Predator franchises have been succeeding well before this year alone.

Predator: Badlands Continues An Epic Trend We First Saw In Alien: Earth

Released in November 2025, Dan Trachtenberg's Predator: Badlands has quickly b

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