{"id":420316,"date":"2026-02-11T18:06:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T18:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/420316\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T18:06:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T18:06:11","slug":"dan-trachtenberg-on-his-predator-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/420316\/","title":{"rendered":"Dan Trachtenberg On His &#8220;Predator&#8221; Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/dan-trachtenberg-on-his-predator-future.jpg\" data-caption=\"20th Century Studios\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/dan-trachtenberg-on-his-predator-future.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"dan-trachtenberg-on-his-predator-future\"\/><\/a>20th Century Studios<\/p>\n<p>Filmmaker Dan Trachtenberg came to many people\u2019s attention first with his short film \u201cPortal: No Escape\u201d and then his 2016 debut feature \u201c10 Cloverfield Lane\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>He helmed \u201cThe Boys\u201d pilot, was briefly linked to a \u201cY: The Last Man\u201d film and the \u201cUncharted\u201d film, but didn\u2019t end up doing another film until 2022 with \u201cPrey\u201d \u2013 an acclaimed film that reinvigorated the \u201cPredator\u201d franchise over at 20th Century Studios.<\/p>\n<p>Trachtenberg returned with two more \u201cPredator\u201d films, including the animated anthology \u201cPredator: Killer of Killers\u201d and last year\u2019s theatrical release \u201cPredator: Badlands\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement came the other day that Trachtenberg has signed a first-look directing and producing deal with Paramount, which has led to questions over his involvement in future \u201cPredator\u201d projects going forward.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking with <a href=\"https:\/\/screenrant.com\/dan-trachtenberg-predator-future-confirmed-paramount-deal\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Screen Rant<\/a>, he confirms he ain\u2019t walking away from Predator: \u201cWell, Predator, I\u2019m in this zone of dreaming up more, like I said, as I had been previously.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He adds that the Paramount deal is a \u201csimultaneous thing\u201d and that what determines his upcoming projects will come down to schedules as: \u201ctiming [will be] a bit of a thing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said the deal with Paramount allows him the \u201cincredible opportunity to make original things\u201d as well as having \u201csome very cool IP that I could now get to think about\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPredator: Badlands\u201d releases on Hulu tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"20th Century Studios Filmmaker Dan Trachtenberg came to many people\u2019s attention first with his short film \u201cPortal: No&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":420317,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[94966,96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-420316","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-bigslider","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-movies","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom","13":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420316","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=420316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420316\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/420317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}