Dan Trachtenberg Has Another ‘Predator’ Project in Mind Beyond This Year’s Double Feature!

Director Dan Trachtenberg is serving up a double dose of new Predator projects here in 2025, with the animated anthology movie Predator: Killer of Killers now streaming on Hulu. The film pits different Predators up against legendary killers throughout history, and it paves the way for Trachtenberg’s feature film Predator: Badlands later this year (November 7).

But these aren’t even the only two Predator projects Trachtenberg is looking to make in a post-Prey world, and he’s teasing a mysterious fourth project in a chat with SFX Magazine!

“After Prey came out, and I started thinking about sequel stuff, there were three ideas that I had. Killers is one, Badlands is two and the third one is something else,” he tells the magazine.

Trachtenberg continues, “The reason why I felt possessed to make them and sort of why I rushed – I did two at once because I could multitask with animation – was because I was so eager to get to the third thing. There’s a lot of cool ideas out there and none of them are just like, ‘Oh, we have to say the next part of this story because it was successful.’ All of it is like, ‘Whoa, no one has done that in sci-fi. No one has done that in Predator. No one’s done that with the creature,’ all of those ideas are generated from that instinct.

“So, yeah, there is definitely a third thing that I’d love to get to when Badlands is finished.”

Predator: Badlands will release in theaters November 7, 2025. Elle Fanning stars alongside Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi. It’s set on a remote planet where a young Predator, outcast from his clan, finds an unlikely ally in Thia and embarks on a treacherous journey in search of the ultimate adversary. Yes, the main protagonist of the film is a Predator!!