{"id":105601,"date":"2025-10-28T18:01:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T18:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/105601\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T18:01:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T18:01:07","slug":"predator-badlands-first-reactions-big-screen-spectacle-is-disney-fied-gore-that-may-divide-fans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/105601\/","title":{"rendered":"Predator: Badlands First Reactions: Big Screen Spectacle Is \u2018Disney-fied\u2019 Gore That May Divide Fans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt31227572\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Predator: Badlands<\/a> has finally been unveiled to the critics, and the first reactions have painted a bold picture of what we can expect to see in the movie. It\u2019s the first film in the franchise under Disney\u2019s full ownership of the IP after the Fox merger. Early reviews are praising it so far, but some have found it to be Disney-fied gore.<\/p>\n<p>Directed by <a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0870469\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dan Trachtenberg<\/a>, the film takes the iconic alien-hunting saga into a whole new direction and gives the audience a sci-fi adventure, with some gruesome horror roots that defined earlier entries. So, let\u2019s look at what everyone is saying about <a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt31227572\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Predator: Badlands<\/a>, and how&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Predator: Badlands has finally been unveiled to the critics, and the first reactions have painted a bold picture&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":105602,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[6946,6947,430,6948,156,434,4223,409,111,43,139,69,5436,417,437],"class_list":{"0":"post-105601","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-actors","9":"tag-actresses","10":"tag-celebrities","11":"tag-directors","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-films","14":"tag-hollywood","15":"tag-movies","16":"tag-new-zealand","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-newzealand","19":"tag-nz","20":"tag-stars","21":"tag-television","22":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}