Predator: Badlands He tells us his story from the point of view of a Yautja, an alien species that we have always seen confronting humans.
Predator: Badlands It’s a very different film from all the ones we’ve seen previously in the saga. One of its most notable differentiating elements is that there is no no person of the human raceand the closest thing to that could be Thia and Tessa, Weyland-Yutani gynoids incarnated by Elle Fanning.
According to Dan Trachtenberg, director and screenwriter of this film, as well as the previous two in the franchise –Predator: Killer of killers (2025) and Predator: The Prey (2022) -, this decision was made to surprise the saga’s fandom.
In previous films, the race Yautja always presented itself as an antagonist of the human, while Predator: Badlands focuses on telling us the story from the point of view of Decka young Predator marginalized by his group for being too short.
To subvert the public’s expectations regarding the franchise, Dan Trachtenberg I wanted to do a film where “the Predator will win” in the end: “Nothing convinced me until I found the key focusing on a Predator who is part of an incredibly intense and brutal clan trying to prove his worth.”
Predator: Badlands wanted to move away from Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Given the premise proposed by Predator: Badlandsincluding a relationship between a human and a predator It would have been too obvious and would have attracted all the attention, so Dan Trachtenberg preferred to focus on another topic that is less common in the industry.
“I refused to allow any human characters to appear in the film because I knew it would draw the public’s attention,” he explained. the director of Predator: Badlands through a media interview TelaRant. “And it would end up being something like Terminator 2: Judgment Daywhich is wonderful, but it would be more of a “a human with a Predator companion””.
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