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Hidetaka Miyazaki is one of the biggest creative minds in the gaming industry, but his influence has reached even further. According to Predator: Badlands director Dan Trachtenberg, the design for the film’s terrifying new creature, the Kalisk, was influenced by many other designs, including Miyazaki.

Dan Trachtenberg says the Kalisk from ‘Predator: Badlands’ was visually inspired by both Miyazaki and ‘Shadow of the Colossus’.

“It has to look incredibly intimidating, but for there also to be a nobility, and that doesn’t come with a design that’s really reptilian and scary.” pic.twitter.com/NG81bd9Mm6

— DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm) February 14, 2026

Trachtenberg revealed this in a recent interview, and…

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