{"id":218298,"date":"2025-10-22T16:55:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T16:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/218298\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T16:55:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T16:55:09","slug":"new-predator-badlands-teaser-puts-spotlight-on-the-alien-franchise-connection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/218298\/","title":{"rendered":"New &#8216;Predator: Badlands&#8217; Teaser Puts Spotlight on the &#8216;Alien&#8217; Franchise Connection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over 20 years after the franchises first collided on the big screen with Alien vs. Predator, the Alien and Predator sagas come together once again in the upcoming Predator: Badlands.<\/p>\n<p>This time, however, Aliens and Predators won\u2019t be battling it out like WWE superstars. Predator: Badlands provides a more subtle link between the two franchises, with Elle Fanning playing a character named Thia who happens to be a Weyland-Yutani android. Thia ends up a hostile alien planet, forced to team up with an unlikely ally: a young Predator named Dek.<\/p>\n<p>The latest official social media teaser for Predator: Badlands makes the franchise connection crystal clear, with the Weyland-Yutani branding being put front and center. Watch below.<\/p>\n<p>Predator: Badlands\u00a0will release in theaters\u00a0on November 7, 2025, in\u00a0IMAX, Dolby Cinema, RealD 3D, Cinemark XD, 4DX, ScreenX, and premium screens everywhere.<\/p>\n<p>Elle Fanning\u00a0stars alongside\u00a0Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi as Dek.<\/p>\n<p>The newest entry in the franchise\u00a0is set on a remote planet where a young Predator, outcast from his clan, finds an unlikely ally in Thia (Fanning) and embarks on a treacherous journey in search of the ultimate adversary.\u00a0Dan Trachtenberg\u00a0(Prey, 10 Cloverfield Lane) is back to direct.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Priority One. Experience Predator: Badlands in theaters November 7. Get tickets now: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/axQaPq58rm\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/axQaPq58rm<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9nxzpzFgVt\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/9nxzpzFgVt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Predator (@Predator) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Predator\/status\/1980706686567608476?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">October 21, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Over 20 years after the franchises first collided on the big screen with Alien vs. Predator, the Alien&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":218299,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[15100,96,2839,35501,42603,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-218298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-alien","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-predator","tag-predator-badlands","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218298","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=218298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}