Badlands “Large Swing” Took Precedence Over Prey 2, Producer Explains

A brand new Predator film is only a month away in Predator: Badlands, releasing on November 7. Although after the recognition of 2022’s Prey, many followers could have thought we might be getting a sequel to that story reasonably than the one that provides a game-changing premise teased in Predator: Badlands trailers.

That distinctive angle to a Predator film was a giant a part of why audiences are getting Predator: Badlands forward of Prey 2, based on one of many film’s producers. From ScreenRant‘s Predator: Badlands set go to, producer Ben Rosenblatt defined his and director Dan Trachtenberg’s thought course of:

“One of many issues that was most necessary to Dan and to me, and what attracted me to Prey, is that it was one thing surprising. It was one thing that folks hadn’t completed with the franchise earlier than. So I believe in fascinated by what to do subsequent, Dan was actually set on, ‘How can we do the following factor and never make it anticipated?’ And I believe it had been at the back of his thoughts, as he type of looked for what that could possibly be, is like, ‘Effectively, that is the sort of massive swing that nobody’s taken but.'”

Trachtenberg, who additionally directed Prey, oversees this new story a few younger Predator named Dek, performed by Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi, who serves because the hero of this story as he embarks on a hunt to show himself after being outcast by his clan. Elle Fanning additionally stars as an artificial who agrees to assist Dek as he searches for a harmful creature.

Rosenblatt stated that leaping straight into Prey 2 could have been “a brand new model of the identical factor.” He added, “You can have completed a Prey the place it’s, ‘Okay, right here’s a special time interval.’ However I believe for us, we had been like, ‘How can we transfer issues ahead?’”

Nonetheless, Rosenblatt was certain to notice that Prey is “not one thing we’re abandoning,” however that they need to construct on the film’s story.

Prey starred Amber Midthunder as a younger Comanche warrior who should shield her tribe when a Predator involves Earth within the early 18th century. The film was broadly acclaimed, incomes a 94% “Licensed Recent” rating from critics and was seen as a revitalization of the Predator franchise.

Prey 2 was beforehand confirmed in 2024, and Rosenblatt’s feedback again up that the undertaking remains to be on their minds. With Predator: Badlands, Trachtenberg and firm appear to have simply needed to proceed to discover new areas within the Predator universe earlier than returning for the sequel.