{"id":2281758,"date":"2026-02-14T09:51:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T09:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2281758"},"modified":"2026-02-14T09:51:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T09:51:19","slug":"hidetaka-miyazakis-influence-reaches-hollywood-as-predator-badlands-director-credits-him-for-inspiring-kalisks-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/hidetaka-miyazakis-influence-reaches-hollywood-as-predator-badlands-director-credits-him-for-inspiring-kalisks-design\/","title":{"rendered":"Hidetaka Miyazaki\u2019s Influence Reaches Hollywood as Predator: Badlands Director Credits Him for Inspiring Kalisk\u2019s Design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/m.imdb.com\/name\/nm2329298\/\">Hidetaka Miyazaki<\/a> is one of the biggest creative minds in the gaming industry, but his influence has reached even further. According to <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/m.imdb.com\/title\/tt31227572\/\">Predator: Badlands<\/a> director <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/m.imdb.com\/name\/nm0870469\/\">Dan Trachtenberg<\/a>, the design for the film\u2019s terrifying new creature, the Kalisk, was influenced by many other designs, including Miyazaki.<\/p>\n<p>Dan Trachtenberg says the Kalisk from \u2018Predator: Badlands\u2019 was visually inspired by both Miyazaki and \u2018Shadow of the Colossus\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt has to look incredibly intimidating, but for there also to be a nobility, and that doesn\u2019t come with a design that\u2019s really reptilian and scary.\u201d pic.twitter.com\/NG81bd9Mm6<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm) February 14, 2026<\/p>\n<p>Trachtenberg revealed this in a recent interview, and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\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 m.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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\u2019s terrifying new creature, the Kalisk, was influenced by many other designs, including Miyazaki. Dan Trachtenberg says the Kalisk from \u2018Predator: Badlands\u2019 was visually [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2281759,"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-2281758","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\/2026\/02\/Hidetaka-Miyazakis-Influence-Reaches-Hollywood-as-Predator-Badlands-Director-Credits.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2281758","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=2281758"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2281758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2281760,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2281758\/revisions\/2281760"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2281759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2281758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2281758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2281758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}