Prey’s Dan Trachtenberg Has a Secret New Predator Movie Coming — to Stream on Hulu?
Dan Trachtenberg, director of 2022’s straight-to-streaming, Emmy-winning Prey movie, has another two Predator projects on the horizon — including a top-secret one that might again debut on Hulu.
Earlier this week, it was announced that Trachtenberg’s Predator: Badlands, starring Elle Fanning and set, per some reports, in the “near future,” would hit theaters on Nov. 7, 2025.
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But beating Badlands to your eyeballs may be a second Predator project, though details on it are fascinatingly nil.
After Prey — which was set in the Northern Great Plains circa 1719 and starred Saturn Award winner Amber Midthunder — became a success, “Dan [Trachtenberg] said he didn’t want to do Prey 2. And we’re like, ‘What do you want to do?'” 20th Century Studios chief Steve Asbell told THR. “He rattled off a bunch of ideas that were really crazy but really cool.
“We’ve actually done two of them… coming out next year,” Asbell shared. “One I can’t talk about yet, but the other one is the live-action Predator film with Elle Fanning that just wrapped in New Zealand. That’ll be out theatrically sometime next year.”
Asbell teased Badlands as “an absolutely bonkers idea” and “a sci-fi thing, but it’s not what everybody thinks it is…. It is so nuts. But in Dan, we trust.”
The second new Predator movie, also directed by Trachtenberg, “we have different plans for,” Asbell allowed, “but I can’t say anything about [it] yet.”
Given that Asbell qualified Badlands as “the live-action Predator film” (emphasis ours), some are speculating that the second film is animated, though Trachtenberg’s time on the Predator clock would not seem to allow for animation.
Meanwhile, the “different plans” that Asbell alluded to — coupled with the repeated references to Badlands as a “theatrical” release — suggest that the secret movie will, like Prey, premiere on streaming in 2025.
A representative for Hulu’s original film division did not respond to TVLine’s request for comment.
Given Trachtenberg’s track record, are you looking forward to Badlands and/or his other Predator film, even if the latter turns out to be animated?
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