A second, heretofore unannounced, Predator movie is in the works for 2025, with 20th Century Studios planning to release it sometime before Predator: Badlands arrives in November. In a wide-ranging interview with THR packed with new info about its release slate, studio president Steve Asbell revealed that director Dan Trachtenberg directed a second Predator project that may be destined for a streaming release. Asked whether the next Predator movie would get a theatrical release, Asbell said "yes and no," and then explained what he meant.
"Yes, a Predator movie will have a theatrical. I’ll tell you very simply. After Prey became a success, Dan [Trachtenberg] came back and said he didn’t want to do Prey 2.
And we’re like, 'What do you want to do?' And he rattled off a bunch of ideas that were really crazy but really cool," Asbell says. "We’ve actually done two of them. Two are coming out next year.
One I can’t talk about yet, but the other one is the live-action Predator film with Elle Fanning that just wrapped in New Zealand. That’ll be out theatrically sometime next year." [Disney recently confirmed Predator: Badlands would release on November 7 ].
Asbell claims Badlands is "an absolutely bonkers idea" and a "sci-fi thing, but it’s not what everybody thinks it is." As for the second Predator movie, the studio has "different plans" for the project, but Asbell wouldn't say more — only that it would be out before Badlands. Asbell's comments will leave fans will p.