20th Century Studios (via IGN) has released the first clip from Predator: Badlands, director Dan Trachtenberg’s follow-up to the critically-acclaimed Prey.<\/p>\n
In the action-packed preview, we see the movie’s Yautja protagonist, Dek, fighting off an attack from some relentlessly vicious plant-like creatures.<\/p>\n
We recently got confirmation that Badlands will be the first film in the Predator franchise – not counting 2004’s AvP crossover – not to have an R-rating. While speaking to IGN<\/a>, producer Ben Rosenblatt explained why he thinks fans will be on board with the family-friendly rating, while promising that Badlands will still be very violent.<\/p>\n It seems the studio was able to bring the movie in with a\u00a0PG-13 rating because it\u00a0won’t feature any humans on the receiving end of the carnage.<\/p>\n \u201cWe’ll see where it ends up, but our hope for it is that it can be a PG-13 that feels like an R,\u201d Rosenblatt said. \u201cThat’s kind of our hope. And really, what that’s about is just being able to broaden out the audience for a movie like this.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWe don’t have any humans in the movie and so we don’t have any human red blood,\u201d he continued. \u201cSo we’re hoping that’s gonna play to our advantage. We’re going to go as hard as we possibly can within those constraints, and we think we’ll be able to do some pretty awesomely gruesome stuff. But in colours other than red.\u201d<\/p>\n We know that the movie’s Yautja protagonist, Dek, will lay waste to multiple alien creatures, and the only humanoid characters are Weyland-Yutani synths.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n A young Predator finds an unlikely ally and embarks on a treacherous journey in Predator: Badlands, starring Elle Fanning and Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi. #IGNFanFest<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/CmWFSYMYWk<\/a><\/p>\n