The “Predator: Badlands” Trailer is Good…Except For One Thing ☝️

 

(This is the first poster for Predator: Badlands.) 

Well now, I didn’t think I’d be writing about Predator again so soon after writing my post about the trailer to Predator: Killer of Killers, but here we are. 8 days ago (according to what it says on the date for the trailer on YouTube), Twentieth Century Studios released the teaser trailer to Predator: Badlands, the followup to Dan Trachtenberg’s highly successful and well received Predator prequel film, Prey (2022). And you know what? The trailer actually surprised me. Predator: Badlands looks nothing like what I expected it to. 

 

When I saw the title, Badlands, I was expecting another Earth bound story 🌎, since with the exception of Predators, every Predator movie (including Alien vs. Predator (2004) and Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem) has taken place on Earth 🌎, possibly in the past or in the present, and given that it says Badlands, I thought it would be set in the South Dakota Badlands. And that it would involve Elle Fanning trying to survive being hunted down by a Predator in the South Dakota Badlands. Not a particularly original plot for a Predator movie, but something that seems like it could be cool. Something that sticks to the basics, keeps it small scale, but changes it up a little bit by putting it in a new setting and having yet another female survivor ♀︎ just like Prey (2022) did. I also thought it was going to come out next year, in 2026.

But no, all of my assumptions about this movie were proven wrong by this trailer. Not only does not take place on Earth 🌎 at all, but it also doesn’t take place in the past or the present. Instead, it takes place on another planet in the distant future. Oh, and Elle Fanning is not being hunted down by a Predator (not entirely anyway), she actually befriends a Predator and becomes an ally of it. In fact, she’s not even human, she’s an android, a Weyland-Yutani android. Not only that, but the Predator is the protagonist, he’s the good guy that we’re rooting for in this, not Elle Fanning. She’s the sidekick basically. Oh, and it’s coming out this year, a few months after Predator: Killer of Killers, which serve as the appetizer to the main course. So, we’ll be getting two Predator movies in the same year. I gotta say, I’m glad that I was proven wrong. 

 

 

 

 

(This a screenshot of a comment that I saw in the comment section of the trailer to Predator: Badlands. It’s a joke about the title, based on that meme from FANT4STIC where Ben Grimm says “Gotta say, it’s fantastic,” and Reed Richards turns around and says “Say that again,” and Ben says, “It’s fantastic” and then that’s how Reed Richards comes up with the name for the Fantastic Four. Though, we don’t actually hear him say “Fantastic Four,” we just hear him say, “Guys, I got it” and then the movie cuts off and goes to the credits before we even get to hear him say the name of the team. Just like how in Avengers: Age of Ultron, we don’t hear Steve Rogers say “Avengers Assemble,” we just hear him say “Avengers…” and then it cuts off and goes to credits before we even get to hear him say the full catchphrase. That scene, and that line, didn’t really gain any traction until fairly recently, where it became a meme on TikTok that then spread to YouTube. That’s where all memes and viral trends start, TikTok. If they don’t start there, they start on Twitter 🐦, or I guess X since it’s no longer called Twitter 🐦, it’s called X because Elon Musk has a fetish for the letter X.) 

 

 

 

 

 

We’re finally getting a Predator movie with a Predator as the protagonist. Remember how I was complaining about how we still haven’t gotten a Predator movie with a Predator as the protagonist in my Predator: Killer of Killers post? Well, it looks like Dan Trachtenberg addressed my complaint a head of time. He was way ahead of me on that one. And we’re getting in live action, and not just being relegated to animation like I expected. On top of that, we’re getting another Predator movie that’s off-world, on what looks to be another game preserve planet like in Predators. It might be the same planet that was in Predators. Or it might be a completely different planet that is not a game preserve planet like the one in Predators, who knows? It is called Badlands after all. We won’t know until the movie comes out. 

 

 

 

 

(This is another screenshot of another comment that I saw in the comment section of the trailer to Predator: Badlands. This is talking about how they like that it’s taking place off-world.) 

 

 

 

 

 

But, Predator: Badlands is going even further than Predators did since it not only takes place on another planet, but it takes place in the future, around the same time the Alien movies are set, except for AVP (2004) and AVPR of course. Maybe not Alien: Resurrection either because it takes place 300 years after Alien³, and I don’t even know if that movie’s still considered canon or not. Considering that movie ends with Earth 🌎 being completely overrun by the Xenomorphs, and they’re releasing a new show or movie that has that exact same premise called Alien: Earth 🌎. 

 

 

 

(These are screenshots of comments that I saw in the comment section of the trailer to Predator: Badlands. They’re talking about how a Predator is the protagonist for this movie.) 

 

 

 

Except, I guess according to Wikipedia, it isn’t a full on apocalypse what happens in the alternate ending of Alien: Resurrection, it’s a spaceship that crashes to Earth 🌎 and the crew of that ship to deal with an Alien and prevent it from escaping triggering the same type of apocalyptic scenario that we saw play out at the end of the alternate ending of Alien: Resurrection. Not as exciting as a full on Alien apocalypse, but I guess 😒. So, even if the two AVP films from the 2000s themselves aren’t considered canon anymore (which I’m not sure if they are or not), the presence of Weyland-Yutani and the inclusion of a Weyland-Yutani android does show that Predator and Alien still exist within the same universe. 

Apparently, the dead giveaway that Elle Fanning’s character was an android was that weird eye thing that she does in the trailer, where her eyes just roll back like a shark 🦈’s when it’s eating or biting something. Apparently, that’s something Weyland-Yutani androids do when they’re updating, and that was established in Alien: Romulus. I never saw Alien: Romulus, I had no interest in watching it, because I was pretty skeptical of it (especially since it was backed by Ridley Scott), and I still don’t have a lot of interest in seeing it. So, I wouldn’t know that little detail about the androids’ eyes. But, it is a cool detail to let us know that a character is an android with us having to see their signature white milky blood, which has certainly been the subject of many smutty jokes. That weird little jog in place that Ash does in the first Alien movie isn’t going to cut it. Nor is that speedy knife trick 🔪 that Bishop does in Aliens. 

 

 

(These are screenshots of comments that I saw in the comments section of the trailer to Predator: Badlands. These ones are talking about Elle Fanning’s character being a Weyland-Yutani manufactured android.) 

But that apparently isn’t the only thing that exists in the same universe as Alien or Predator, as it’s been suggested over the years that Blade Runner exists in the same universe as Alien as well because apparently references to Alien in the Blade Runner movies with the androids and there are references to Blade Runner in the Alien movies, particularly in Prometheus and Alien: Covenant, with the Replicants. Suggesting that Weyland-Yutani and Tyrell and later Wallace (since Wallace replaces Tyrell after the company falls apart after the blackout caused by the Replicant rebels) are competing companies with competing products, the androids and Replicants. With the Replicants being much more advanced and superior compared to Weyland-Yutani’s androids. But, I’m entirely sure if that totally adds up. 

The technology and the city already look pretty advanced in the year 2019, and that wouldn’t square with how the world looks in the Predator movies by the time it gets to that decade. Oh, and it’s strongly implied in the Blade Runner movies, particularly in the second one, Blade Runner 2049, that a Third World War took place sometime in the past, and the Soviet Union ☭ still exists. We know for sure that the Soviet Union ☭ is still around in the Blade Runner world because we see references to it in Blade Runner 2049. Also, Pan Am is still around too. I don’t know about you, but I don’t remember hearing anything about World War III or about the Soviet Union ☭ surviving past 1991 in any of the Predator movies. 

 

You’d think they would considering most of the Predator movies take place closer to the time that the Blade Runner movies take place, and those are pretty world changing events. The Soviet Union ☭ surviving past 1991 is a huge point of divergence between our world and the Blade Runner world. But, we see nothing like that in the Predator movies or the AVP movies. But, if Alien (as well as Predator) take places in the same universe as Blade Runner, that’d also mean they’d also take place in the same universe as Soldier (1998), since that movie is confirmed to take place in the same universe as Blade Runner, being a sort of unofficial spinoff of Blade Runner. It features Replicants as well as many references to Blade Runner, so it’s apart of that universe and that franchise. BTW, Soldier (1998) was directed by Paul W.S. Anderson, so it’d be pretty fun coincidence if it turned Alien (and Predator) did take place in the same universe as Blade Runner and Soldier (1998), considering he directed the first AVP film.

Also, apparently Independence Day now exists in the same universe as Alien and Predator too. Some eagle eyed 🦅 viewers noticed a skull in the Predator trophy room that looked an awful lot like one of the aliens from Independence Day, which are given the name, Harvesters in the sequel, Independence Day: Resurgence. I mean, they were both Fox properties, and are now Disney properties because of the merger, so it makes sense why they would include that. 

 

 

 

 

(This is a screenshot of a comment that I saw in the comment section of the trailer to Predator: Badlands. This one is talking about the Harvester skull that was included in the trophy room of what looks to be a Predator ship.)

 

 

 

 

But, that Harvester skull’s inclusion does raise some questions, a lot of the same questions that are raised when you try to suggest Blade Runner is in the same universe as Alien and Predator. If the Independence Day movies exist in the same universe as Predator, and in turn Alien, why is there no mention of the events of the Independence Day movies in any of the Predator movies before this one. And I’m not just talking about the futuristic cities, future tech, and Moon base 🌕 that the humans build and created after reverse engineering the technology left behind by the defeated Harvesters in the second movie, but even the events of the first movie as well. 

The War of 1996 (yes, that is the name of the conflict between the humans and Harvesters in the first Independence Day) was a globe spanning conflict 🌎🌍🌏 that killed over 3 billion people, which was about half of the total human population at the time, since there were only 6 billion people on the planet 🌎🌍🌏 when the first movie was made and when it took place. Every major city around the globe 🌎🌍🌏 was wiped out in the initial attack. You’d think there’d be some mention of that in the Predator movies before Badlands, but there isn’t. 

 

I mean, Predator 2 takes place in 1997 (despite coming out in 1990), a year after the War of 1996 would’ve taken place, and Los Angeles looks totally fine, not a scratch on it. It looks just normal 90s Los Angeles, but with way more crime and gang warfare and way hotter since LA is suffering a massive heat wave 🥵 in the film which is why the Predator shows up to start hunting humans on both sides of the law, the police and the gangs. Even though LA was one of the cities that we saw get obliterated on screen in the first Independence Day. So, LA should still be in ruins by the time Predator 2 takes place if they truly exist in the same universe. Unless you’re telling me they somehow managed to rebuild all of LA in a matter of months. 

I mean, I know that the humans reversed engineered the Harvesters’ technology and used it to improve their own, but I’m sure that took months, if not years to figure out, if we were to be realistic about it. I know the Independence Day movies aren’t exactly bastions of realism, but even those movies that would be stretch for the humans to instantly reverse engineer the Harvester technology and then rebuild all of the cities that were destroyed by the Harvesters in a matter of months. Resurgence implies this was a gradual process and it took them the full 20 years in between both movies for them to fully rebuild and integrate the Harvesters’ technology into their own. 

Of course, given that the humans rebuilt and improved their cities and technology following the war against the Harvesters, you’d think we’d see some of this in the Predator movies since, with the exception of the first one (the one with Arnold Schwarzenegger), they all take place with that 20 year time gap in between the first Independence Day and Resurgence, and even after, if The Predator is even still canon, which I don’t really think it is given how much people hated it 🤬 and how it contradicts the established lore of the Predator and why they hunt, even as it uses that established lore as a crutch to get fans to like it (which failed miserably). But, the world in the Predator movies looks nothing like how it does in the Independence Day movies, not even close. 

 

The idea of a Predator hunting a Harvester and keeping its skull as a trophy to add to its collection is still pretty cool, even if it doesn’t make a whole lot of sense given what we’ve seen in the movies of both franchises. I guess it’s up to you (as well as up to the filmmakers) where you draw the line on what is just an Easter egg, something fun in the background for fans and film buffs to notice, and what is actual worldbuilding that we’re actually supposed to take seriously as canon to the wider universe. 

It could simply be that Dan Trachtenberg wanted throw in a little Easter egg to Independence Day since it’s also a Fox property that became Disney property after Disney bought Twenty-First Century Fox (the name of the conglomerate that owned the studio Twentieth Century Fox and all of the film properties under its belt), and people like the first Independence Day at least, and he probably likes Independence Day too, and didn’t really intend to have a deeper meaning behind the reference. If that’s the case, he should know that in the age of cinematic universes and geek culture, people will see something like that will automatically think that it means something even if you didn’t originally intend for it to mean anything. Plus, the whole Alien vs. Predator thing, at least on the film side, was started by an Easter egg. 

 

They decided to include an Alien skull in the trophy room of the Lost Tribe’s ship in Predator 2 just to throw a bone 🦴 to the people who read the Aliens vs. Predator comics (the ones published by Dark Horse Comics) which is where this whole Aliens vs. Predator thing really started. But after the movie came out, and the Easter egg was well received by fans, and after producer John Davis (not to be confused with Jimmy Neutron creator, John A. Davis) saw it, that’s they decided to make an actual movie out of it and basically combine Alien and Predator into one franchise and one universe. So, even if Trachtenberg may not have intended it or not, he may have opened the door to a Predator/Alien/Independence Day crossover movie, or comic, or video game. It’d sort of be kind of like Freddy vs. Jason vs. Ash. 

Speaking of crossovers, the main takeaway from this trailer for a lot of people besides it being the first Predator movie with a Predator as the main character and Elle Fanning being in it, is that this means a new Alien vs. Predator movie will come out sometime in the future. Like, everyone’s first when they saw Weyland-Yutani and a Weyland-Yutani android were in this, was Alien vs. Predator, people really want to see a new Alien vs. Predator movie. I don’t know if one is in the cards, but I’d definitely like to see one. I actually like the two AVP movies, which are usually despised and dismissed by critics as typical Hollywood trash and are bit divisive amongst the fandom, and it’s been 18 years since the second one was released and there never was a third one, so it’s about time that a new one gets made. And if one does get made, it’ll take place in the future this time, which was the one complaint that even people liked the AVP movies had about them. Since outside of the two movies, every piece of AVP media has taken place in the future, around the same time period that the Alien movies take place, and usually involve Colonial Marines. 

Most AVP stories (both in the comics and video games) take after Aliens rather than Alien. Paul W.S. Anderson was really the first one do an Alien vs. Predator story that took more after Alien than Aliens, even down to it being called Alien vs. Predator rather than Aliens vs. Predator like most AVP media up to that point. The Brothers Strause came along and brought back the Aliens vs. Predator moniker for AVPR since they obviously like Aliens more than Alien like Anderson did. They used the same ridged head design from Aliens rather than the smooth dome head from Alien, which is what AVP (2004) used, as well as every Alien movie since Aliens. AVPR is the only other Alien movie that used the ridged head design from Aliens. That design is used all the time in the comics and video games, but not so much in the movies. 

Had Neill Blomkamp got to make his Alien movie, it likely would’ve been the third Alien movie to use that design. God, I wish he got the chance to make it, it would’ve kicked so much ass. But, ol’ Ridley Scott had come in and screw it up for him 😒. Probably because he was jealous that Blomkamp’s pitch was way more interesting and gained way more fan support than anything he himself came up with 🙄. What could’ve been 😔. It’ll also be R rated, but AVPR overcame that hurdle. 

 

I think after AVP (2004) and the reaction, Twentieth Century Fox and the producers behind the movie realized that making it PG-13 was a mistake and vowed never to make that same mistake again, as every Alien and Predator movie since then has been rated R. And even if Disney owns both franchises, they’ve also agreed to never make that same mistake of releasing an Alien or Predator movie that’s rated PG-13. I won’t be entirely surprised if there’s an after credit scene or a mid credit scene in Predator: Badlands that where a Xenomorph pops up or if we see an egg and we see it open up and a Facehugger pops out or something like that. Or if it cuts to black and we even hear the sound of a Xenomorph roar, snarl, or hiss. Even if it doesn’t directly lead to a new Alien vs. Predator movie. 

However, when thinking about Alien vs. Predator and this idea of a shared universe, it dawns on me that only Predator movies reference Alien while none of the Alien movies reference Predator. Why is that? Why is it that they only use Easter eggs in Predator movies to indicate a connection to the Alien franchise, but not the other way? Why couldn’t Alien: Romulus, or Alien: Earth 🌎, or some future Alien project include a reference to Predator? I’m not saying a Predator needs to show up or anything, but at least show some Predator technology, or some Predator artwork, or a Predator build structure like a pyramid or something. Or have a character allude to the Predator by mentioning another alien out there that hunts different lifeforms around the galaxy that it deems worthy. 

 

Or you can go with something a bit more subtle and have an alien show up that’s the same species as one from the Predator movies, one of the alien creatures that the Predators hunt besides humans and Xenomorphs. I mean, in the Alien movies, we really don’t see any other kinds aliens besides the Xenomorphs and Xenomorph adjacent creatures (and also the Space Jockeys AKA Engineers 🙄), so this would be a great opportunity to show more kinds of aliens besides the Xenomorphs and acknowledge the fact that the Predator and Alien franchises exist in the same universe. Just so that the whole Alien and Predator reference thing isn’t just a one way street. Because the way it’s gone so far, it gives off the impression that the Predator franchise is reliant on the Alien franchise to stay relevant, like the Predator franchise needs Alien more than the Alien franchise needs Predator. It just gives off the feeling of desperation, and I don’t want that stank on Predator. 

I will say that this is a pretty good trailer overall. I wasn’t lying when I wrote that title on this post. The music alone is what keeps coming back to this trailer and watching it over and over again. And it’s pretty well edited too I would say. It shows enough to get you intrigued but not enough to give a sense of what it’s really about, at least not in the finer details. Broad strokes sure, not the finer details. We know it’s about a teenage Predator who goes hunting on another planet as part of a rite of passage to manhood ♂︎ and befriends an android who got stranded on that same planet, and another Predator shows up to try to kill the teenage Predator I guess, only this one has white hair, a cape, and a biomask with horns on it. The Sephiroth of Predators you might say. 

 

But, we don’t know for sure why that android was on the planet and how it got stranded there, and we don’t know what the teenage Predator is there to hunt exactly because Elle Fanning’s character says “you’re hunting something that can’t be killed,” and then in the next shot, a big huge monster shows up to fight the Predator, who’s only armed with a sword, or a machete I guess. And we don’t know how Weyland-Yutani factors into this beyond just the android, just Elle Fanning’s character. We also don’t know what the deal with this white-haired Predator is. I mean, it’s a teaser trailer, it’s going to excel in that regard, though some teaser trailers show more than others. This is one that shows less.

But, like with the Predator: Killer of Killers trailer, my biggest complaint was the design of the lead Predator. We see two Predators in this trailer, our lead Predator and an antagonist Predator with white hair. But, we never see the white haired Predator’s face because every shot we see it in, it’s still got its mask on. The lead Predator is the only one of the two that we see in this trailer without their mask and see his face, probably because we’re supposed to empathize and sympathize with this Predator since he’s the main protagonist. We’re supposed to root for him. And yeah, it looks pretty bad 😬. 

 

I haven’t liked what Dan Trachtenberg has done with the Predator design in his three Predator movies (it’s hard to believe he’s made three Predator movies now, two of them back-to-back), the direction he’s taken the design language of the Predator. This is why I hope he steps away from the Predator franchise after this and lets someone else come in and take over, instead of continuing to be seemingly the sole guiding force of it. I hated the design of the Feral Predator in Prey (2022), I hated the designs of the Predators in Predator: Killer of Killers, and I hate the design of the lead Predator in this movie. I don’t expect the design of the white haired Predator to be much better even if his biomask does look pretty cool and is the best looking one of the Trachtenberg movies. 

 

As for the lead Predator, it’s not so much the biomask that I have a problem with, his mask is fine, it’s more so the face, the hair, and the movements. I really don’t like the look of the face, or the hair. The face looks really ugly (and not in a good way), the locks are too thin, and I don’t like that the hair’s in a ponytail and that the Predator is seemingly bald on the sides of his head. The face looks like they were trying to make the Predator look cuter since he’s protagonist this time around and we’re supposed to empathize with him and root for him, especially they made the eyes a little bigger and more pronounced. They gave him the ol’ Disney Eyes treatment™. 

 

And once again, the mandibles are off, barely even covering the mouth at all when they’re closed, completely negating the original biological purpose of those mandibles that Stan Winston came up with when he came up with the original design. With James Cameron’s help since Cameron was the one who gave him the idea of add mandibles to the design. I mean, it’s a little better than the mandibles in the previous movies, they cover the mouth a little bit more when they’re closed, but it’s still not perfect. It’s still not what we saw in Predator 1 and 2. I understand that this Predator is supposed to be a teenager (the official plot synopsis says that he’s a young Predator), but did they have to make him look like a stereotypical Millennial? The comment section underneath this trailer is full of people just roasting the design of the Predator in this. 

 

I screenshotted some of the comments that I thought were the funniest 🤣, there were people saying he looks like hipster, saying that he looks like works as a barista at a local coffee shop ☕️, or he looks like he vapes 💨 while listening to podcasts 🎙️, or like he charges $30 💵 for a “gourmet” hamburger 🍔. Someone even called him the “KSI Predator,” because I guess his hairstyle looks very similar to the YouTuber (and now professional boxer 🥊) KSI’s hairstyle. I’m surprised no one joked about him looking like Joshua Weissman, because he does look like what Joshua Weissman would look like if he were a Yautja. One joked that the filmmakers got the design off of Temu. 

 

 

 

(These are screenshots of comments that I saw in the comment section of the trailer to Predator: Badlands. They’re all making fun of the design of the main Predator in the movie.)

 

 

 

Some people have even tried to come up with theories as to why the Predator looks like this. One person suggested that this Predator is a hybrid, half-human and half-Predator, created by none other than Weyland-Yutani, which would explain that one shot of those group of humans surrounding the Predator with his back turned. He is one of their experiments that escaped. It would also explain why that white haired Predator is trying to kill him since we don’t see Predators kill other Predators unless they’re Bad Bloods (Predators that broke the rules, the Yautja code of honor, and are banished from their tribe) or if they’re different species or sub-species like we see saw with the Super Predators in Predators. 

 

 

 

(This is a screenshot of a comment that I saw in the comment section of the trailer to Predator: Badlands. This one is proposing a theory that the main Predator is a human hybrid, a genetic experiment 🧬 created by Weyland-Yutani to explain how it looks and how it moves.) 

 

 

 

 

So far, we haven’t seen any evidence that Predators of the same species/sub-species engage in clan warfare, like we don’t see Predators of one clan kill the Predators of another clan. That has never been a thing in the lore as far as I know. We’ve seen no evidence for that up until this point. But, it doesn’t explain why this Predator is wearing Predator clothing and armor, why he has Predator weapons and a biomask. If this Predator really was a Weyland-Yutani experiment that escaped, wouldn’t he be wearing more human-looking clothes and using more human weapons like those Emissary Predators that were cut out of Shane Black’s The Predator? 

 

Unless, he escaped at a young age or was rescued at a young age and taken in by a full blooded Predator clan that raised him as their own and taught him their ways, and this is first real hunt to prove himself and become a man ♂︎. I’m glad that people noticed how human looking and human behaving this Predator is. I didn’t even fully realize that he was supposed to be a Predator until we got that full face shot at the end of the trailer. Or maybe I did realize it but I was a little bit in denial. 

 

 

 

(This is a screenshot of a comment that I saw in the comment section of the trailer to Predator: Badlands. This is talking about how the main Predator looks and moves too much like a human.)

 

 

 

 

But, I don’t think this Predator is a human hybrid, he’s just a regular teenage Predator going through a rite of passage. The more human look, human movement, and human behavior is more of a creative choice than anything else, because Dan Trachtenberg didn’t know any other way to make audience side with a Predator and root for one. I’m just that I’m not the only one who had a problem with the design and spoke up about it this time around, it felt it like I was the only one who had a problem with the Predator designs in Predator: Killer of Killers and said anything about it.

 

 

 

 

(This is a screenshot of a comment that I saw in the comment section of the trailer to Predator: Badlands. This one is talking about how they like that the main Predator in this movie is a teenager on their first hunt.)

I do like that this movie is actually going to get a theatrical release. That was another thing I was lamenting in my post on the Predator: Killer of Killers trailer, that it seemed like Predator was banished to the streaming realm, never to get another theatrical release ever again while Alien got to have all of their movies released theatrically before going to streaming and physical media (DVDs 📀, Blu-Rays 💿, and 4K UHD 💿). But again, Dan Trachtenberg, for all his faults and questionable design choices, addressed my other main concern about the Predator franchise going forward with this movie since this one is getting released in theaters. I’m glad 😊. It’s going to be in IMAX, as well as other premium theaters large format or otherwise like Cinemark XD, ScreenX, Dolby Cinema, and 4DX. RPX wasn’t mentioned, but I’m sure it’ll be in RPX too. 

 

Every movie that’s in IMAX also gets released in RPX. I probably won’t be able to see it in IMAX because my grandma hates IMAX (she thinks it’s too loud) and I usually see movies with her (I haven’t seen a movie in theaters by myself since The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023)), and IMAX tickets are pretty expensive, more expensive than a regular movie ticket. If I do see the movie in a premium theater (if I see it in theaters at all), it’ll probably be RPX or Cinemark XD. I’d even take ScreenX, I did see Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire in a ScreenX theater and I thought it was pretty cool. A bit gimmicky, but still preferable to 3D. But, it won’t come out until November, November 7, 2025 to be exact. A month after Tron: Ares. So, it won’t be a summer release ☀️ unfortunately, but hey, at least I’ll have two movies to watch in October and November if all goes according to plan. 

 

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(This is the trailer to Predator: Badlands.)