Predator: Badlands Director Confirms 'There’s No Xenomorph in This Movie,' So the Aliens vs. Predator Rematch Is Going to Have to Wait

Predator: Badlands is not a concealed Alien vs. Predator film, its manager has insisted. There’s nary Xenomorph successful it either.

Director Dan Trachtenberg told Empire outright that fans shouldn’t expect to spot a Xenomorph from the Alien franchise successful Predator: Badlands, contempt evil megacorp Weyland-Yutani featuring prominently successful the movie’s trailers.

Elle Fanning’s Thia, arsenic trailers person revealed, is simply a Weyland-Yutani synth from the nefarious company’s bio-weapons division. Weyland-Yutani seems to person immoderate plan — oregon astatine slightest beingness — connected the alien decease satellite connected which Badlands is set.

In different motion to Aliens, the last changeable of the trailer shows a mech marque a melodramatic entranceway to combat a elephantine monster (Aliens Power Loader, anyone?). Thia teases this mech's instauration by saying: "We mightiness not beryllium unsocial successful this hunt." Who is she talking about? Who is piloting the mech? And what is this enigma monster?

Alas, this each appears to beryllium a specified sprinkling of Alien successful Predator, arsenic opposed to the Alien versus Predator rematch immoderate fans had hoped for.

“There’s nary Xenomorph successful this movie,” Trachtenberg told Empire. “But to me, that makes it much exciting. We’re not involving [the Alien franchise] conscionable to smush the enactment figures together. There are great, integrated communicative reasons for Weyland-Yutani to beryllium successful this film.”

The caller Predator successful Badlands is called Dek, an underdog Yautja “runt” successful the protagonist role. Predator movies typically diagnostic Yautja (the sanction fixed to the contention of alien hunters) successful antagonist roles. Dek selects his hunting ground, a “Death Planet” called Kalisk, and it’s present helium fights to beryllium his worthy to his begetter and for acceptance wrong his ain clan. In the trailer we perceive Dek speak, insisting he’s not the prey here.

While Predator: Badlands does not diagnostic a Xenomorph, Alien is arsenic large arsenic it’s been successful years, with the hotly anticipated Alien: Earth finale astir upon us.

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