{"id":2135690,"date":"2025-11-04T23:08:45","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T23:08:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2135690"},"modified":"2025-11-04T23:08:45","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T23:08:45","slug":"predator-alien-crossover-arnold-schwarzenegger-return-addressed-by-badlands-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/predator-alien-crossover-arnold-schwarzenegger-return-addressed-by-badlands-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Predator & Alien Crossover, Arnold Schwarzenegger Return Addressed by Badlands Team"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Predator: Badlands<\/a><\/strong> creative team has addressed how the new movie crosses over with the Alien<\/a> franchise and Arnold Schwarzenegger<\/a>\u2019s potential return as Dutch.<\/p>\n

Predator: Badlands arrives in United States theaters this weekend. Directed by Dan Trachtenberg<\/a>, the 20th Century Studios<\/a> movie stars Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi as Dek and Elle Fanning as Thia, the latter of whom is a damaged Weyland-Yutani synthetic.<\/p>\n

What did the Predator: Badlands team say about Alien and Arnold Schwarzenegger?<\/h2>\n

Speaking with Deadline<\/a>, Trachtenberg opened up about how Predator: Badlands crosses over with the Alien franchise despite there being no Xenomorphs in the film.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would say,\u00a0Badlands\u00a0itself is definitely a crossover in that we have the Weyland-Yutani corporation as a huge part of the movie,\u201d he explained. \u201cElle Fanning plays a Weyland-Yutani synth. And I think, sometimes there\u2019s a tendency for a \u2018versus\u2019 movie to be grabbing all the action figures and smashing them together, and I thought it was really cool to just take an element from one franchise and fuse it with this one. So yeah, they\u2019re a huge part of the movie.\u201d<\/p>\n

Producer Ben Rosenblatt said Thia\u2019s presence gives the film a \u201cspiritual connection\u201d with the Alien movies.<\/p>\n

\u201c[Trachtenberg] was like, \u2018I would love to have humanoid characters without having humans,\u2019 and he was like, \u2018I think we need robots.\u2019 And then, of course, Dan was like, \u2018I know who makes robots: Weyland-Yutani,\u2019\u201d he said. \u201cAnd then it was a natural collision of the two worlds.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rosenblatt also addressed whether or not fans can expect to see Schwarzenegger return in a future Predator<\/a> movie.<\/p>\n

\u201cObviously, the holy grail of\u00a0Predator\u00a0movies would be getting Arnold back in there. And it\u2019s always been something in the back of our minds that it would be really great to see him come back to this franchise that he\u2019s made iconic, and that\u2019s made him iconic. So, he\u2019s been really wonderful. Arnold and Dan have met a couple of times now. He\u2019s been really interested in what we\u2019re doing, he\u2019s a real fan of what we\u2019ve done so far, from what I understand. And we\u2019re really excited. After\u00a0Predator: Badlands\u00a0comes out, we\u2019ll see and have more conversations. Hopefully, we\u2019ll have a chance to do something with Arnold, because that would be awesome.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The Predator: Badlands creative team has addressed how the new movie crosses over with the Alien franchise and Arnold Schwarzenegger\u2019s potential return as Dutch. Predator: Badlands arrives in United States theaters this weekend. Directed by Dan Trachtenberg, the 20th Century Studios movie stars Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi as Dek and Elle Fanning as Thia, the latter of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2135691,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[333565,317505,346422,365483,362908,406765,381050,343783],"class_list":["post-2135690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-20th-century-studios","tag-arnold-schwarzenegger","tag-badlands","tag-dan-trachtenberg","tag-elle-fanning","tag-predator-movies","tag-trachtenberg","tag-weyland-yutani"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Predator-Alien-Crossover-Arnold-Schwarzenegger-Return-Addressed-by-Badlands.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2135690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2135690"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2135690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2135692,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2135690\/revisions\/2135692"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2135691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2135690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2135690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2135690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}