The Predator franchise will return to the big screen in November 2025 with Dan Trachtenberg’s (10 Cloverfield Lane) Predator: Badlands, with Elle Fanning set to star in a brand new story. Additionally, 20th Century Studios boss Steve Asbell has spilled the beans in a new chat with The Hollywood Reporter that a second new Predator movie is also coming!
Asbell tells the outlet, “After Prey became a success, Dan [Trachtenberg] came back and said he didn’t want to do Prey 2. And we’re like, ‘What do you want to do?’ And he rattled off a bunch of ideas that were really crazy but really cool. We’ve actually done two of them.
“Two are coming out next year,” Asbell continues. “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.”
The one movie is of course Predator: Badlands, confirmed for theaters on November 7, 2025. The other sounds like it’s some kind of streaming project, and it’s set to come out before Badlands. Crazy enough, BOTH upcoming projects were directed by Dan Trachtenberg!
And this interview gets even crazier. Steve Asbell also reveals that a new Alien/Predator mashup movie is likely under the Disney umbrella! He teases, “It wouldn’t be in the way you think. That’s the thing. Not in the way that it will just be called Alien vs. Predator or anything like the original movies. If we do this, they’ll be organically created out of these two franchises that we’ve continued with characters that we fall in love with and those characters will combine…perhaps. But we haven’t gotten to that point. And we’re not just going to bang it out.”
Stay tuned for more on the Predator franchise, which is heating up big time!
Now owned by Disney under the 20th Century Studios umbrella, the Predator franchise of course kicked off with the original action-horror classic in 1987. That was followed by sequels Predator 2, Predators, The Predator, and Prey, as well as the two Alien vs. Predator movies. The long-running franchise also includes all kinds of comic books and video games.
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