Predator: Badlands

[sh9000]

https://screenrant.com/predator-badlands-release-date-november-2025/

Predator:  Badlands will release in theaters on November 7, 2025.

[CoryHolmes]

I like the name.  Still think Predator: Concrete Jungle is my favourite, though.

[Bolt]

Are we looking at a predator western..?

[tekering]

10 minutes ago, Bolt said:

Are we looking at a predator western..?

Perhaps not.  According to the ScreenRant article linked above, "Predator: Badlands, a film that will star Elle Fanning in the lead role, could feature a story set in the future."

[Bolt]

15 minutes ago, tekering said:

Perhaps not.  According to the ScreenRant article linked above, "Predator: Badlands, a film that will star Elle Fanning in the lead role, could feature a story set in the future."

Ah, i missed that. Perhaps post apocalyptic then..

[electric indigo]

Wait, what?

 

[Big s]

1 hour ago, electric indigo said:

Wait, what?

 

That’s the exact opposite of what everyone was hoping for 

[kajnrig]

5 hours ago, electric indigo said:

Wait, what?

4 hours ago, Big s said:

That’s the exact opposite of what everyone was hoping for 

That's actually what I had hoped would be the case for The Predator. Altruistic Predator gets shot down trying to bring alien tech to humanity to fight a common enemy in the Super Predator, but ends up killing an investigation party in self-defense, then the Super Predator lands and it becomes a three-way hunt as the Predator tries to help humanity and/or make it out alive, humans try to kill the aliens, and the Super Predator does its Super Predator self-experimentation thing.

 

[CoryHolmes]

4 hours ago, Big s said:

That’s the exact opposite of what everyone was hoping for 

That may be, but at least it's something DIFFERENT.  As much as I love (most of) the Predator franchise, there's only so many ways to tell the same story.

[Black Valkyrie]

 

That was I  hoping for, since years . 

 

[Big s]

3 hours ago, kajnrig said:

That's actually what I had hoped would be the case for The Predator. Altruistic Predator gets shot down trying to bring alien tech to humanity to fight a common enemy in the Super Predator, but ends up killing an investigation party in self-defense, then the Super Predator lands and it becomes a three-way hunt as the Predator tries to help humanity and/or make it out alive, humans try to kill the aliens, and the Super Predator does its Super Predator self-experimentation thing.

 

 

1 hour ago, Black Valkyrie said:

 

That was I  hoping for, since years . 

 

So AVP again

[TangledThorns]

The Road Warrior meets Predator?

Could be interesting.

It'd be nice if we got a true AVP with Colonial Marines tho...

 

[Hikuro]

I dunno, I've always seen the Predator as neither a bad guy or a good guy type of a character, it's just a hunter. That's what they are, they hunt for stronger prey. I'm willing to at least wait for a trailer and see how it goes since hollywood always unveils way to much and spoils the crap out of a movie. After that, guess kind of go from there. 

[sh9000]

First look on set.

[CoryHolmes]

9 hours ago, TangledThorns said:

The Road Warrior meets Predator?

Could be interesting.

It'd be nice if we got a true AVP with Colonial Marines tho...

 

Lately I've been thinking just a straight Predator: Colonial Marines would be nice.  Make it a younger Pred that doesn't have all the best toys yet and make it learn that its prey is a little more advanced than it thought they were.  The motion tracker to defeat the cloak would be a good match up.

[Thom]

I like it when the Predator end up helping us. They can't all be heartess hunters.

[TangledThorns]

12 hours ago, Thom said:

I like it when the Predator end up helping us. They can't all be heartess hunters.

 

They're ethical hunters doing it for land management, lol.

[Thom]

2 hours ago, TangledThorns said:

 

They're ethical hunters doing it for land management, lol.

Sure, why not! Considering how often they hang around forests, some of them have to be tree-huggers!

 

 

Edited Sunday at 03:14 PM by Thom

[Big s]

11 hours ago, TangledThorns said:

 

They're ethical hunters doing it for land management, lol.

Yeah all ethical hunters love tearing out the spine of their defeated prey with their bare hands while it’s still breathing. Happens all the time in the Midwest 

[Dynaman]

19 minutes ago, Big s said:

Yeah all ethical hunters love tearing out the spine of their defeated prey with their bare hands while it’s still breathing. Happens all the time in the Midwest 

The Romans and most other societies up till "modern" times would have considered it nothing specially gruesome.

[Big s]

57 minutes ago, Dynaman said:

The Romans and most other societies up till "modern" times would have considered it nothing specially gruesome.

There’s a lot of questionable things about ancient Rome 

[Dynaman]

22 hours ago, Big s said:

There’s a lot of questionable things about ancient Rome 

The point is that our idea of ethical is by no means universal.

[Thom]

The only times a Predator has 'worked' with human has been in situations of-preservation or under an Honor-code. Either one of those is a good starting point.