Is there a secret Predator film, already in production, that has been flying under the radar until now? It appears that Fox studio chief Steve Asbell let the cat out of the bag in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter.
We already knew that after Prey hit big, both in numbers and critically, for Hulu back in 2022 another instalment was on the way. Dan Trachtenberg was returning to direct Predator: Badlands. This would star Elle Fanning and is said to be “futuristic”.
When asked if Badlands would get a theatrical release, Asbell let something slip:
“Yes, a Predator movie will have a theatrical. I’ll tell you very simply. 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. 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. That’ll be out theatrically sometime next year.”
Expanding on this, he said:
“There’s a second Predator movie that we have different plans for. Dan has actually directed both… there’s a secret Predator movie that will come out before the theatrical one but I can’t say anything about yet.”
He was also asked about the possibility of trying to return to the Alien vs. Predator movies and not making a complete mess of them this time around:
“Probably… 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.”
Predator: Badlands is currently scheduled to arrive on November 7th 2025.
Take an in-depth look behind the scenes of the original Predator movie right here.