Predator: Badlands Director Reveals New Details As Elle Fanning's Character's Alien Connection Is Confirmed
20th Century Studios debuted the first trailer for the next live-action movie in the Predator franchise, Predator: Badlands, earlier this week, and director Dan Trachtenberg - who also helmed Prey - has now shared some new details with Bloody Disgusting.
The filmmaker confirms that Badlands will at least partially take place on the Predators' home planet of Yautja Prime, as we follow a “runt” named Dek (played in costume and motion-capture by Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi) as he joins forces with a mysterious woman (Elle Fanning) after being exiled from his clan.
“One of the cool things about the movie is that we’re on Yautja Prime—there’s a lot in this movie from the extended universe. We insanely decided to treat [the language] properly like [Elvish] for Lord of the Rings or [Dothraki] for Game of Thrones, except for those there’s more precedent.”
As for Fanning's character, Thia, the trailer seemed to make...
The filmmaker confirms that Badlands will at least partially take place on the Predators' home planet of Yautja Prime, as we follow a “runt” named Dek (played in costume and motion-capture by Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi) as he joins forces with a mysterious woman (Elle Fanning) after being exiled from his clan.
“One of the cool things about the movie is that we’re on Yautja Prime—there’s a lot in this movie from the extended universe. We insanely decided to treat [the language] properly like [Elvish] for Lord of the Rings or [Dothraki] for Game of Thrones, except for those there’s more precedent.”
As for Fanning's character, Thia, the trailer seemed to make...
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