Spoiler Warning: The next article incorporates some hefty spoilers for Predator: Killer of Killers. In case you haven’t watched the film but, please flip round and are available again after checking it out.
I just lately checked out Predator: Killer of Killers, the brand new animated anthology sequence set in one of many most iconic sci-fi franchises of all time. The 2025 film, which is now streaming for anybody with a Hulu subscription, options three brief tales about warriors from completely different eras taking over predators earlier than being kidnapped, put into suspended animation, after which introduced again to battle like gladiators for the alien species. It’s fairly candy, if I’m being sincere.
However after checking director Dan Trachtenberg’s second entry in the Predator franchise (he nonetheless has Predator: Badlands later this 12 months), I’ve 5 questions that I haven’t been capable of cease desirous about. From the destiny of a number of the film’s heroes to a tease of one other nice warrior and a lot extra, there’s so much I must go over with this one.
This Is not The Final Of Kenji And John, Proper?
Within the “Epilogue” of Predator: Killer of Killers, World Struggle II pilot John J. Torres (Rick Gonzalez) and Seventeenth-century samurai Kenji Kamakami (Louis Ozawa) defy the percentages and struggle off their predator captors lengthy sufficient – because of viking warrior Ursa’s (Lindsay LaVanchy) act of self-sacrifice – to flee in an alien airship. I don’t know if we’ll get a sequel to among the best Predator movies, but when we do, I’m not satisfied we received’t ever see these two once more.
The pairing, which is actually actually good, might result in some nice encounters, both with extra predators or elsewhere if they can escape the planet (extra on that subsequent). Watching them work collectively, though they don’t share the identical native tongue, was spectacular in Killer of Killers, and I might like to see that relationship proceed to unfold. Plus, we have now to see how these two survive, proper?
I don’t have the best of hopes for these two (or Ursa, who was put again into captivity), however we will see what occurs if their tales are ever revisited.
Even So, The place Will The Survivors Go After Their Escape?
One of many last photographs of Predator: Killer of Killers is of the warlord sending a big group of predators in all types of ships with all types of weapons after the escaping John and Kenji. Whereas watching this, I saved questioning one factor: the place are the people going to go?
First, let’s discuss in regards to the ship they commandeered. Is it able to leaving the planet and surviving in area? If not, these two are caught on an alien planet unknown lightyears away from Earth, and the possibilities of survival are slim to none, particularly in the event that they get captured by the raging conflict celebration.
However what if it does escape the ambiance? The place are they going to go, and the way lengthy will it take to get there? It’s been proven at this level that the predators have some superior know-how that goes properly past what we’re able to producing again dwelling on Earth, so it’s inside motive to consider that the ship is able to touring at hyperspeed. However once more, can John, a WWII pilot, determine it out?
When Does The Epilogue Take Place In The Predator Timeline?
After I was watching Predator: Killer of Killers, I saved questioning if this intelligent anthology movie noticed the long-lasting sci-fi characters utilizing time journey to select warriors from completely different eras. Nonetheless, I then stumbled upon an interview The Direct had with co-director Joshua Wassung, the place it was revealed that they’ve merely been constructing a set of gladiators for a lot of, a few years. This received me pondering: the place precisely does this film happen in the Predator timeline?
Based mostly on “The Bullet,” the third brief movie within the anthology, happening in 1942, we all know that the “Epilogue” is not less than within the twentieth century, if not past. And whether it is past that time limit, does this imply it takes place across the identical time as the unique Predator film (set a while within the late twentieth century) or across the level of the later movies within the sequence (someday within the early twenty first century)?
It’s exhausting to inform by the predator know-how, because the creatures have all the time been extra superior than people again on Earth.
Does This Imply We’re Going To See Naru Once more?
One other nice second from the Predator: Killer of Killers ending is a really temporary shot of Naru, Amber Midthunder’s Comanche hunter from Prey, which was additionally directed by Dan Trachtenberg. You could recall that the final time we noticed the badass feminine character on the finish of the 2022 film, she and her tribe have been being approached by a bunch of predator airships after she killed her attacker and painted her face together with his inexperienced blood.
Whereas it stays unclear if we’ll get a Prey sequel at any level sooner or later, this fast have a look at Naru in suspended animation opens up a number of potentialities for her return to the franchise. On one hand, you could possibly have a sequel to Killer of Killers that includes her and different iconic characters being awoken. However, you could possibly have a sequel filling within the gaps in her story main as much as her seize on the alien planet.
And Lastly, Is There A Likelihood We’ll See Dutch In A Gladiator Battle?
Contemplating all the warriors proven in Predator: Killer of Killers all beforehand killed not less than one predator earlier than being captured, it solely is smart for Alan “Dutch” Schaefer, one in every of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s greatest characters, to indicate up and kick some ass prefer it’s 1987 once more. That being mentioned, I’ve to know if we’re going to see Dutch turn out to be one of many gladiators and duke it out with fellow people and predators alike on the aliens’ dwelling planet.
You can have a bit backstory about Dutch being kidnapped by a bunch of predators within the fictional Central American nation of Val Verde, and even when he went again to the US, earlier than being transported deep into area and compelled to struggle. Having him come off the ice and making an attempt to make it again dwelling (and additional avenge his pals’ deaths) just about writes itself.
Solely time will inform if any of those questions are answered and we’re given extra Predator: Killer of Killers. However within the meantime, not less than we have now Predator: Badlands to look ahead to within the very close to future.