Director Dan Trachtenberg is revealing some new details about the next film in the Predator series, Predator: Badlands — including a fairly surprising (but very intriguing) tease about who the protagonist of it will be. Trachtenberg spoke to Empire magazine about the next film, "a future-set tale taking place on an alien planet" per the article. Trachtenberg dropped another interesting tidbit: the hero of the story will be a Predator.
“The creature is front and centre, leading the charge,” Trachtenberg told the magazine. “He’s still badass, but there’s something there that touches you emotionally, too. Creating a character you connect with, but are also super-intimidated by, has been challenging.
But exciting.” The filmmaker added that the idea for this approach came from the desire to "find another essential piece of cinema that does what Prey did spiritually — pushing the franchise’s boundaries, letting us root for a hero we rarely get to root for — but in a different way." That raises questions about the role of Elle Fanning, the star of Predator: Badlands .
The Empire article reveals that she'll be playing multiple characters, but not any further details on what those characters would be like. We also got a first behind-the-scenes look at the set, which you can see below. WORLD-EXCLUSIVE ? #PredatorBadlands will have the #Predator itself as its hero, director Dan Trachtenberg tells Empire.
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