Predator: Badlands Poster Breaks Cover, Reveals First Proper Look at New Predator's Armor and Mask — and Also Maybe a Big Spoiler

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A poster for Predator: Badlands released up of San Diego Comic-Con 2025 has revealed a archetypal due look astatine the caller Predator's armor and mask, what is possibly an Aliens notation — and mightiness adjacent incorporate a spoiler for the film.

Warning! Potential spoilers for Predator: Badlands follow:

Predator: Badlands, from Prey and Predator: Killer of Killers manager Dan Trachtenberg, revolves astir a caller Predator called Dek. Dek is described arsenic an underdog Yautja “runt” successful the protagonist role. Predator movies typically diagnostic Yautja (the sanction fixed to the contention of alien hunters) successful antagonist roles. Dek selects his hunting ground, a “Death Planet” called Kalisk, and it’s present helium fights to beryllium his worthy to his begetter and for acceptance wrong his ain clan.

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Predator: Badlands is Dek’s story, but he’s not unsocial connected Kalisk. He besides works with a quality called Thia, played by Elle Fanning, who arsenic IGN has discussed precise overmuch looks similar a synth from the Alien franchise.

The poster, reported connected by the unofficial SDCC blog, reveals Dek armored up and carrying Fanning’s quality connected his back. Look intimately and you tin spot that Fanning appears to person suffered important harm of a benignant that rekindles memories of the iconic country successful beloved 1986 enactment sequel Aliens wherever Lance Henriksen’s Bishop (also a synth) is torn successful fractional by the xenomorph queen. In the poster, tendrils of synth innards look to bent from Fanning’s torso, arsenic they did from mediocre aged Bishop each those years ago.

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Fans person already established theories arsenic to what this each means, and are pointing to comments Trachtenberg issued earlier this twelvemonth that assistance marque consciousness of it all.

Trachtenberg has said the on-screen narration betwixt Dek and Fanning’s quality was inspired by 2005 PlayStation masterpiece Shadow of the Colossus.

“As inspired arsenic I americium by movies, I’ve been precise inspired by video games [like] Shadow of the Colossus, wherever you person a protagonist paired with idiosyncratic other who provides colour and connection,” Trachtenberg explained.

“There’s a happening with a equine successful Shadow of the Colossus that’s devastating erstwhile you play the game. And truthful [Predator: Badlands] was a small spot inspired by that successful presumption of wanting to spot the Predator with idiosyncratic else, this quality who’s the other of him. He’s precise laconic, [Fanning] is not. She’s susceptible successful ways that helium is not. Physically, she’s got a existent happening that I’m truthful excited for you guys to see. But I privation to fto yet immoderate of that talk for itself.”

It looks similar this poster has teased what Trachtenberg was saying present (“physically, she’s got a existent happening that I’m truthful excited for you guys to see”). But arsenic fans person already noted, determination were hints astatine Fanning’s quality suffering this wounded successful the debut Predator: Badlands trailer, wherever we spot her crawling distant from what whitethorn beryllium a vessel crash. Interestingly, we bash not spot Fanning beneath the waist successful the trailer, either.

There are a fig of different Alien references successful the Predator: Badlands trailer, arsenic good successful the precocious released animated movie Predator: Killer of Killers, which had sparked speculation Trachtenberg is mounting up Aliens vs. Predator 3. Trachtenberg was, arsenic you’d expect, tight-lipped connected those Alien connections and Fanning’s character’s nature. “There’s a unsocial hook to her quality that is breathtaking successful the pairing of [her and Dek],” Trachtenberg teased.

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