Dan Trachtenberg is single-handedly bringing the Predator franchise kicking and screaming into a new era, and recently opened up about the massive undertaking in started when coming up with three separate possible ideas for new entries in the near-40-year-old sci-fi action franchise. While many fans doubted that 2022 movie Prey could possibly compete with the original 1986 Arnold Schwarzenegger movie – especially with a female lead no less – Trachtenberg’s tight, thrilling movie blew away audiences and critics alike.

Now he is back with a new live-action theatrical Predator movie, Predator: Badlands, and an animated anthology movie called Predator: Killer of Killers that will debut in June of Hulu/Disney+. Speaking at a recent press event (via ComicBook), Trachtenberg explained how he became so intertwined with the Predator franchise, revealing that Prey was not originally the movie he was most interested in making. He said:

“I had three very cool ideas. One of them,...