In a dialog with ScreenRant, Dan Trachtenberg explains how Predator: Badlands has the right Stranger Issues cameo. Releasing this weekend, Badlands is the primary theatrical Predator film from Trachtenberg, who beforehand labored on Prey and Predator: Killer of Killers. It options Elle Fanning within the lead function.
Trachtenberg has directed numerous different initiatives, together with a TV episode of Prime Video’s The Boys, however he has not been concerned in Stranger Issues. The beloved Netflix sci-fi sequence has had 4 acclaimed seasons and can drop season 5 beginning on the finish of this month.
In a dialogue moderated by Todd Gilchrist at ScreenRant‘s superior screening of Predator: Badlands, Trachtenberg explains how the movie has the right Stranger Issues-related cameo. Trachtenberg revealed that the voice of Kwei’s (Michael Homick) ship is definitely Matt and Ross Duffer, higher often called Stranger Issues creators the Duffer Brothers.
Trachtenberg defined that this took place due to a missed alternative. In an alternate timeline, the Badlands director would have additionally helmed an episode of the ultimate season of Stranger Issues. He ended up going through schedule conflicts due to Badlands, so he as a substitute “roped” the Duffer Brothers right into a cameo. Take a look at the total quote under:
However there is a cameo from the Duffer Brothers… because the voice of Kwei’s ship, the Yautja laptop voice. They have been mixing Stranger Issues on the identical time that we have been mixing Badlands. I used to be purported to do an episode of Stranger Issues and could not due to Badlands and Killers occurring on the identical time. So I roped them into, “It’s going to be so enjoyable. Simply have you ever guys cameo.” “Oh, that’d be nice,” after which handed them a chunk of paper that had a bunch of Yautja phrases on it. They have been freaking out. We had a stunning time. The entire level of the factor is we have been futzing their voices a lot and computerizing it and all that stuff that it labored out. However really talking Yautja, the true manner, very arduous. So, yeah, Dimitrius performs each Dek and Father vocally.
When it comes to doing the cameo itself, Trachtenberg didn’t make it simple for the Duffer Brothers. As a substitute, he handed them “paper that had a bunch of Yautja phrases on it.” Regardless of this issue, it labored out due to how a lot Trachtenberg and his group have been messing with these voices within the sound combine.
This additionally explains why Trachtenberg, a rising star as a science-fiction director, by no means stepped in for Stranger Issues. He would have made sense as a choose, however he as a substitute needed to proceed to construct up the twenty first century Predator universe.
Due to Stranger Issues ending, Trachtenberg will sadly miss his alternative to work on this Duffer Brothers undertaking. That doesn’t imply the Predator: Badlands inventive will shrink back from tv, nonetheless. In 2021, it was introduced that he would adapt a Waterworld TV present.
Trachtenberg has since revealed this 12 months that Waterworld is just not in lively improvement, however the undertaking has not been outright canceled. That is what may convey the director to TV sooner slightly than later.
The Duffer Brothers may also be taking a look at new initiatives post-Stranger Issues. They have already got two Netflix reveals lined up with The Boroughs and One thing Very Unhealthy is Going to Occur. As such, the Duffers and Trachtenberg may pair collectively sooner or later on one thing past this Predator: Badlands cameo.
Predator: Badlands
6/10
- Launch Date
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November 5, 2025
- Runtime
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107 minutes
- Director
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Dan Trachtenberg
- Writers
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Dan Trachtenberg, Patrick Aison, John Thomas, Jim Thomas
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Elle Fanning
Thia / Tessa
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Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi
Dek / Father