{"id":155974,"date":"2025-09-23T18:09:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T18:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/155974\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T18:09:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T18:09:11","slug":"theres-no-xenomorph-in-this-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/155974\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018There\u2019s no Xenomorph in this movie\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

When the\u00a0Predator: Badlands<\/a>\u00a0trailer landed, one detail set the internet alight \u2013 a brief shot of Elle Fanning\u2019s incoming android character Thia. Specifically, a quick flicker in her eyeball, revealing that she\u2019s actually a synthetic. And not any synthetic \u2013 a Weyland-Yutani synthetic, the evil robo-bastard corporation from the\u00a0Alien movies<\/a>. It teased a potential\u00a0Alien Vs. Predator<\/a>\u00a0rematch, for the first time since 2007\u2019s\u00a0Aliens Vs. Predator: Requiem<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As exciting as the possibility of a full-on Xenomorph-Yautja rematch might be, it seems fans might be getting a little ahead of themselves. As Trachtenberg tells\u00a0Empire, this is a slow-burn crossover. \u201cThere\u2019s no Xenomorph in this movie,\u201d he confirms of\u00a0Badlands. \u201cBut to me, that makes it more exciting. We\u2019re not involving [the\u00a0Alien franchise] just to smush the action figures together. There are great, organic story reasons for Weyland-Yutani to be in this film.\u201d<\/p>\n

Whatever her connection to the wider\u00a0Alien\u00a0mythology, Thia (or, at least, her top half, since she\u2019s been sliced in two on the alien planet of Genna) is a synth unlike any other. \u201cThia has been on Genna a while, seeing things she wouldn\u2019t normally see,\u201d teases Fanning. \u201cShe\u2019s absorbing all this new information, and she\u2019s broken too, so she\u2019s become very different from the other synths.\u201d Sounds like she could do with some care from Mother.<\/p>\n

\"Empire<\/p>\n

Read\u00a0Empire\u2019s full\u00a0Predator: Badlands\u00a0feature \u2013 going on set of Dan Trachtenberg\u2019s wild sci-fi thriller \u2013 in the\u00a0Wicked: For Good\u00a0issue<\/a>, on sale Thursday 25 September. Pre-order a copy online here<\/a>.\u00a0Predator: Badlands comes to UK cinemas from 7 November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When the\u00a0Predator: Badlands\u00a0trailer landed, one detail set the internet alight \u2013 a brief shot of Elle Fanning\u2019s incoming…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":155975,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-155974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}