With Marvel and DC’s superheroes quietly stepping away from this 12 months’s current San Diego Comedian-Con, different buzzy franchises like Predator stepped proper as much as personal the highlight. Filmmaker Dan Trachtenberg was readily available at SDCC following the success of Killer of Killers, now streaming on Hulu, to advertise his subsequent installment, Predator: Badlands. And boy, do followers appear thrilled about what’s to come back, particularly for the reason that acclaimed writer-director hinted at the potential of a crossover film between Alien and Predator down the road. Chances are high it is going to greater than surpass the 2004 try and the sequels that adopted.
MovieWeb additionally had the prospect to talk with Trachtenberg immediately following the discharge of Killer of Killers to be taught extra about his newest work — together with his older initiatives that helped pave the best way for his groundbreaking Predator installments. That features helming the pilot episode of The Boys, the Emmy-nominated sequence on FX whose remaining season is coming quickly.
“I wanted I might have come again for that. It might have been a stunning little bookend. However clearly I used to be, you recognize, making these two motion pictures and couldn’t, however I had such an unimaginable expertise,” Trachtenberg instructed MovieWeb. “And definitely, my first stepping stone into doing the pilot for The Boys, embracing the extra visceral qualities of movie and making one thing that’s extremely ultraviolent, however that is also thematically oriented and just a little little bit of enjoyable and humorous as nicely… that definitely helped sharpen my instruments for the stuff that we’re stepping into now, with all issues Predator.”
Emmy Love ofr ‘Prey’ & Studio Help
Predator: Killer of Killers
- Launch Date
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June 6, 2025
- Runtime
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85 minutes
- Director
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Dan Trachtenberg
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Lindsay LaVanchy
Ursa (voice)
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Louis Ozawa
Kenji / Kiyoshi (voice)
Earlier than Badlands and even Killer of Killers got here Prey (2022), Trachtenberg’s first addition to the Predator canon. He mirrored on his Emmy-winning Hulu film throughout our interview:
“If it ended up good, it is as a result of we saved making an attempt actually laborious your complete time till the very bitter finish. And also you positively don’t anticipate Emmy recognition for a Predator film. That positively got here as a shock and was superb and pleasant and fairly cool, really, when pondering of simply the folks that vote on these awards to think about a film like ours for it. That was superior.”
Trachtenberg’s newest launch, Predator: Killer of Killers, very a lot saved up with Prey when it comes to laborious R-rated violence — even if Killer of Killers is animated. On that word, Trachtenberg addressed whether or not there was any hesitation from twentieth Century Studios when it comes to releasing an animated movie that is so graphically violent.
“The straightforward reply is not any,” he mentioned. “We actually needed — and, for apparent causes, didn’t — however we actually needed to place out a trailer that was like, ‘From the studio that introduced you ‘Bambi’ and the custom of ‘Little Mermaid’ comes a brand new animation…’ After which, you recognize, Predator comes, you recognize, and drops heads off. However yeah, everybody [at the studio] actually understands the franchise and what individuals need out of it, and absolutely supported what we had been doing with Killer of Killers.”
Revisit the ultraviolent magic earlier than Badlands arrives. From twentieth Century Studios, Predator: Killer of Killers is now streaming on Hulu.