Uploaded November 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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It's incredible to think that in just three years, director Dan Trachtenberg has reinvented the Predator franchise in such a profound way! From taking the film far into the past, and exploring the badass roots of both the Yautja and the Comanche Nation in Prey, to exploring how the Yautja have persisted as hunters through all of history in Predator: Killer of Killers, Trachtenberg has changed the way we think about the Yautja mythos forever. Now he, alongside stars Elle Fanning and Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi, are taking it further with Predator: Badlands.

We had the high honor recently to chat with all three of these Predator all-stars! We discussed what it was like for Trachtenberg to utilize the Predator franchise to explore universal themes, and asked what it was like for Koloamatangi and Fanning how it was for them to learn and speak Yautja.

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