{"id":157105,"date":"2025-09-24T07:41:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T07:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/157105\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T07:41:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T07:41:08","slug":"predator-badlands-director-confirms-theres-no-xenomorph-in-this-movie-so-the-aliens-vs-predator-rematch-is-going-to-have-to-wait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/157105\/","title":{"rendered":"Predator: Badlands Director Confirms ‘There\u2019s No Xenomorph in This Movie,’ So the Aliens vs. Predator Rematch Is Going to Have to Wait"},"content":{"rendered":"

Predator: Badlands<\/a> is not a secret Alien vs. Predator film, its director has insisted. There\u2019s no Xenomorph in it either.<\/p>\n

Director Dan Trachtenberg told Empire<\/a> outright that fans shouldn\u2019t expect to see a Xenomorph from the Alien franchise in Predator: Badlands, despite evil megacorp Weyland-Yutani featuring prominently in the movie\u2019s trailers.<\/p>\n

Elle Fanning\u2019s Thia, as trailers have revealed<\/a>, is a Weyland-Yutani synth from the nefarious company\u2019s bio-weapons division. Weyland-Yutani seems to have some design \u2014 or at least presence \u2014 on the alien death world on which Badlands is set.<\/p>\n

In another nod to Aliens, the final shot of the trailer shows a mech make a dramatic entrance to fight a giant monster (Aliens Power Loader, anyone?). Thia teases this mech’s introduction by saying: “We might not be alone in this hunt.” Who is she talking about? Who is piloting the mech? And what is this mystery monster?<\/p>\n

Alas, this all appears to be a mere sprinkling of Alien in Predator, as opposed to the Alien versus Predator rematch some fans had hoped for.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s no Xenomorph in this movie,\u201d Trachtenberg told Empire. \u201cBut to me, that makes it more exciting. We\u2019re not involving [the Alien 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

Ranking the Alien Movies\"As<\/p>\n

The new Predator in Badlands is called Dek, an underdog Yautja \u201crunt\u201d in the protagonist role. Predator movies typically feature Yautja (the name given to the race of alien hunters) in antagonist roles. Dek selects his hunting ground, a \u201cDeath Planet\u201d called Kalisk, and it\u2019s here he fights to prove his worth to his father and for acceptance within his own clan. In the trailer we hear Dek speak, insisting he\u2019s not the prey here.<\/p>\n

While Predator: Badlands does not feature a Xenomorph, Alien is as big as it\u2019s been in years, with the hotly anticipated Alien: Earth<\/a> finale almost upon us.<\/p>\n

Wesley is Director, News at IGN. Find him on Twitter at @wyp100. You can reach Wesley at wesley_yinpoole@ign.com or confidentially at wyp100@proton.me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Predator: Badlands is not a secret Alien vs. Predator film, its director has insisted. There\u2019s no Xenomorph in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":157106,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-157105","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\/157105","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=157105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157105\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}