{"id":2163686,"date":"2025-11-18T05:34:25","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T05:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2163686"},"modified":"2025-11-18T05:34:25","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T05:34:25","slug":"predator-badlands-five-pitches-for-the-next-predator-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/predator-badlands-five-pitches-for-the-next-predator-movie\/","title":{"rendered":"Predator: Badlands &#8211; Five Pitches For The Next Predator Movie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Predator: Badlands has proven to be a box office hit, so it&#8217;s a safe bet that there will be more Predator movies in the future. The film ends on something of a cliffhanger, but we won&#8217;t spoil that here. Instead, let&#8217;s take a roundabout look at what the future might hold for the perennial sci-fi horror franchise.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"relative mb-4\">\n<div class=\"relative\"><button aria-label=\"View larger image\" class=\"group absolute bottom-3 right-3 size-10 md:size-[50px] lg:inset-0 lg:size-full lg:bg-transparent\" data-ylk=\"elm:expand;itc:1;sec:image-lightbox;slk:lightbox-open;\"><span class=\"absolute bottom-0 right-0 rounded-full bg-white p-3 opacity-100 shadow-elevation-3 transition-opacity duration-300 group-hover:block group-hover:opacity-100 md:p-[17px] lg:bottom-6 lg:right-6 lg:bg-white\/90 lg:p-5 lg:opacity-0 lg:shadow-none\"><svg viewbox=\"0 0 22 22\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"size-4 lg:size-6\" width=\"22\" height=\"22\"><path d=\"M12.372.92c0-.506.41-.916.915-.916L21 0l-.004 7.712a.917.917 0 0 1-1.832 0V3.183l-6.827 6.828-1.349-1.348 6.828-6.828h-4.529a.915.915 0 0 1-.915-.915M1.835 17.816l6.828-6.828 1.349 1.349-6.829 6.827h4.529a.915.915 0 0 1 0 1.831L0 21l.004-7.713a.916.916 0 0 1 1.831 0z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/button><dialog aria-label=\"Modal Dialog\" aria-modal=\"true\" class=\"fixed inset-0 z-4 size-full max-h-none max-w-none bg-white hidden\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"relative text-sm mt-1 pr-2.5\"\/><\/figure>\n<h2 class=\"mb-4 text-xl font-bold md:text-2xl\">Predator: Badlands 2<\/h2>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Predator has a reputation for being, let me put this lightly&#8230; A little schizophrenic. Each film basically tells their own stand-alone story, with only tangential connections to one another. In fact, the only Predator movie that&#8217;s a direct follow-up to its predecessor is Aliens vs Predator: Requiem, which is set directly after the first Alien vs Predator movie. I won&#8217;t spoil the ending of Predator: Badlands, but they could certainly follow it up with a direct sequel if they wanted to.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"mb-4 text-xl font-bold md:text-2xl\">Alien vs Predator<\/h2>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Thematically, Alien and Predator don&#8217;t really have much in common, other than having space monsters killing people, but thanks to corporate synergy, we&#8217;ve had tons of AvP comics, novels, video games, and even a pair of movies, and &#8211; you know what? &#8211; some of these crossovers are actually quite good. Predator: Badlands doesn&#8217;t feature any proper Xenomorphs, but the Weyland-Yutani corporation plays an important role in the film. As a result, Badlands feels more like an Alien\/Predator crossover than the actual AvP movies from 2004 and 2007. Given Badlands&#8217; use of the WY corporation, a new AvP movie is only a matter of time.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"mb-4 text-xl font-bold md:text-2xl\">Predator vs Predator<\/h2>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Imagine this: a Predator ship is flying through space, but crash-lands on Earth. On a mysterious island. An island owned by Jeffrey Epstein. When the Predator sees the depravity of Epstein&#8217;s operation, including at least one President of the United States (allegedly) taking advantage of trafficked underaged women, the space alien decides that these men, while not worthy prey for a hunter, are unsportsmanlike in their conduct towards their own prey, and they must pay for their crimes. Cue 90 minutes of non-stop bloodshed as the Predator kills everyone in his way and saves the children of Epstein Island before setting his sights on Mar-a-Lago, a place this writer will surely never be invited to visit after the publication of this article.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"mb-4 text-xl font-bold md:text-2xl\">Predator: The Quest To Resolve Every Cliffhanger Ever<\/h2>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Predator series has left a ton of dangling plot threads over the years. Killer of Killers introduced the idea of Dutch and Harrigan from Predator 1 and 2 being frozen in stasis for an unknown purpose. The survivors of 2010&#8217;s Predators are presumably still on that &#8216;game preserve&#8217; planet, fighting any monsters who try to hunt them. Even 2018&#8217;s Predator ended with the promise of a straight-up Predator invasion, with only Boyd Holbrook&#8217;s &#8220;Predator-Killer&#8221; suit to protect humanity from the invasion. On the &#8220;Alien&#8221; side of the equation, we&#8217;re still waiting to learn the final fate of Michael Fassbender&#8217;s android character, David. With all that in mind, why not throw it all into a blender and have one epic Predator movie to address all of these wayward cliffhangers and wrap up the story so far, allowing for new movies to have a truly blank slate from which to work? Would it be messy? Yup. Would lore enthusiasts eat it up like flies on a pile of elephant dung? Also yup.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"mb-4 text-xl font-bold md:text-2xl\">To Catch A Predator<\/h2>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">I just thought it was a fun pun. Maybe Chris Hansen would star as himself, learning about the Predators and launching an investigation that ends with him impersonating a decorated war hero, thus drawing the Predator out and luring him to a nondescript suburban home. When the Predator busts in, hoping to kill a battle-hardened warrior, he&#8217;s instead met by Hansen, who tells the Yautja to &#8220;have a seat.&#8221; Now that I think of it, this one sounds kinda cool, actually!<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/entertainment\/movies\/articles\/predator-badlands-compromised-pg-13-220819726.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Related: Is Predator: Badlands &quot;Compromised&quot; By Its PG-13 Rating?;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\">Related: Is Predator: Badlands &#8220;Compromised&#8221; By Its PG-13 Rating?<\/a><\/strong><\/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.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Predator: Badlands has proven to be a box office hit, so it&#8217;s a safe bet that there will be more Predator movies in the future. The film ends on something of a cliffhanger, but we won&#8217;t spoil that here. 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