San Diego Comic-Con is just around the corner, and a new poster for Prey director Dan Trachtenberg's spin-off movie, Predator: Badlands, has been spotted in the wild.
The artwork features the movie's Yautja protagonist, Dek, with Elle Fanning's Thia on his back.
The recent trailer made it pretty clear that Thia was a Weyland-Yutani android, but we now know that she's going to be hit with some major damage at some point in the film, and end up being carried by Dek after losing her legs (possibly as a nod to Bishop after his encounter with the Xenomorph Queen in James Cameron's Aliens).
Tranchtenberg also shared an update on his plans for a third Predator movie - separate from the Prey sequel - during an interview with SFX.
"After Prey came out, and I started thinking about sequel stuff, there were three ideas that I had. Killers is one, Badlands is two and the third one is something else. The reason why I felt possessed to make them and sort of why I rushed – I did two at once because I could do, I could multitask with animation – was because I was so eager to get to the third thing."
Check out the poster at the link below, and we'll update if 20th Century Studios releases an official version.
“One of the cool things about the movie is that we’re on Yautja Prime—there’s a lot in this movie from the extended universe," Trachtenberg said in a recent interview. "We insanely decided to treat [the language] properly like [Elvish] for Lord of the Rings or [Dothraki] for Game of Thrones, except for those there’s more precedent.”
“As inspired as I am by movies, I’ve been very inspired by video games [like] Shadow of the Colossus, where you have a protagonist paired with someone else who provides color and connection," he added. "There’s a thing with a horse in Shadow of the Colossus that’s devastating when you play the game. And so [Predator: Badlands] was a little bit inspired by that in terms of wanting to see the Predator with someone else, this character who’s the opposite of him. He’s very laconic, [Fanning] is not. She’s capable in ways that he is not. Physically, she’s got a real thing that I’m so excited for you guys to see. But I want to let eventually some of that speak for itself.”
As it turns out, Fanning will actually play a dual role as twin "sisters" (we assume two versions of the same android model).
Finally, Trachtenberg made it clear that this is going to be a very different kind of Predator movie. “It’s a big, crazy swing, and I think that’s what drives butts into seats. If you want the same old Predator experience, you can hit play on Predator or Prey or any other, whichever one is your fit.”
Have another look at the trailer below in case you missed it.
Predator: Badlands is "set in the future on a remote planet, where a young Predator (Schuster-Koloamatangi), outcast from his clan, finds an unlikely ally in Thia (Fanning) and embarks on a treacherous journey in search of the ultimate adversary."
Trachtenberg directs and produces Predator: Badlands alongside John Davis, Marc Toberoff, Ben Rosenblatt, and Brent O’Connor. The movie opens exclusively in movie theaters on November 7 in IMAX, Dolby Cinema, Cinemark XD, 4DX, ScreenX, and premium screens everywhere.