{"id":2146825,"date":"2025-11-10T16:23:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T16:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2146825"},"modified":"2025-11-10T16:23:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T16:23:16","slug":"predator-badlands-director-dan-trachtenberg-on-that-cliffhanger-ending-why-the-avengers-could-influence-future-films-and-the-surprise-stranger-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/predator-badlands-director-dan-trachtenberg-on-that-cliffhanger-ending-why-the-avengers-could-influence-future-films-and-the-surprise-stranger-things\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Predator: Badlands\u2019 Director Dan Trachtenberg on That Cliffhanger Ending, Why \u2018The Avengers\u2019 Could Influence Future Films and the Surprise \u2018Stranger Things\u2019 Cameos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\">Spoiler Alert: This story includes major plot details, including the ending, of \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt31227572\/\">Predator: Badlands<\/a>,\u201d currently playing in theaters.<\/p>\n<p>When <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0870469\/\">Dan Trachtenberg<\/a> first began conceiving \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt31227572\/\">Predator: Badlands<\/a>,\u201d the director knew he wanted to do something totally different with the 38-year-old sci-fi franchise. He\u2019d already done it once with 2022\u2019s \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt11866324\/\">Prey<\/a>,\u201d which is set in the early 1700s and follows a Comanche woman (<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1690270\/\">Amber Midthunder<\/a>) who must fend off the fearsome alien monster with little more than her wits and her trusty dog. Trachtenberg did it again with the franchise\u2019s first animated feature, 2025\u2019s \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt36463894\/\">Predator: Killer of Killers<\/a>\u201d (directed with <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1945519\/\">Joshua Wassung<\/a>), which chronicles how a ninth century Viking warrior, a 17th century Japanese ninja and a 20th century American WWII pilot all manage to defeat one of the titular aliens \u2014 aka the Yautja \u2014 only to be captured, frozen in suspended animation and then thrown together into a gladiatorial battle&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spoiler Alert: This story includes major plot details, including the ending, of \u201cPredator: Badlands,\u201d currently playing in theaters. When Dan Trachtenberg first began conceiving \u201cPredator: Badlands,\u201d the director knew he wanted to do something totally different with the 38-year-old sci-fi franchise. He\u2019d already done it once with 2022\u2019s \u201cPrey,\u201d which is set in the early [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2146826,"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":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2146825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/\u2018Predator-Badlands-Director-Dan-Trachtenberg-on-That-Cliffhanger-Ending-Why.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2146825","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=2146825"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2146825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2146827,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2146825\/revisions\/2146827"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2146826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2146825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2146825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2146825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}