Exclusive Footage Description: CinemaCon 2025 audiences were the lucky few who got to see the first footage from Predator: Badlands. The footage sees a Predator crash-landing on what could either be an alien planet or a post-apocalyptic Earth. For the first time in franchise history, the Predator is truly outnumbered, with alternating shots of human gangs hunting down the Predator with laser rifles. Elle Fanning plays a mysterious and possibly cybernetic human, since we see her eyes roll to all white, who is trying to help the Predator. We see a new variant of a Predator chief with long white braids performing some sort of ritual.
There’s a flurry of tiny bits that’ll be exciting to explore further, namely a tease of a sequence involving a large subterranean chasm and plenty of showings for the Predator’s new weaponry as he hunts all kinds of alien creatures. The teaser ends with Elle Fanning telling the young Yautja protagonist that what he’s hunting is unbeatable, only to briefly see a massive kaiju-like creature that the Predator is going up against. The main Predator, without his helmet, lets out a mighty yell at the giant beast before he takes it on. Predator: Badlands looks like an entirely new territory for the franchise, but one that builds on Dan Trachtenberg’s excellent revitalization of the series in Prey.