Predator: Badlands

In Predator: Badlands, that moment comes on a scorched planet where the rules of the hunt collapse.

by Alpha Chromatica
Alpha Chromatica
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October 20, 2025
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Predator: Badlands - Directed by Dan Trachtenberg
In Theaters & IMAX, November 7

Every hunter meets a moment when the kill stops mattering.

In Predator: Badlands, that moment comes on a scorched planet where the rules of the hunt collapse. A young Predator exile, stripped of honor and home, crosses paths with Thia (Elle Fanning), a lone survivor whose defiance burns hotter than any weapon. Together, they walk a wasteland where instinct turns to empathy, and evolution begins to look suspiciously like grace.

Dan Trachtenberg, who redefined tension with Prey and 10 Cloverfield Lane, now strips the myth bare, turning the ultimate predator into something uncomfortably close to us. The result feels less like science fiction and more like scripture: a meditation on violence, legacy, and the cost of wanting to be more than what you were built to kill.

At Alpha Chromatica, we believe every artist faces their own Badlands, that place where craft meets conscience and survival becomes creation.

Mastery isn’t about the perfect shot.
It’s about knowing when not to pull the trigger.