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 plenty of questions, like whether 20th Century Studios will ever make a sequel to Prey, which was critically lauded and a fan-favorite. They also leave fans to wonder whether there will be another Aliens vs. Predator movie, especially with the Alien franchise enjoying a renaissance in the wake of Romulus.
"Probably," Asbell says, adding, "It wouldn’t be in the way you think. That’s the thing. Not in the way that it will just be called Alien vs. Predator or anything like the original movies. If we do this, they’ll be organically created out of these two franchises that we’ve continued with characters that we fall in love with and those characters will combine…perhaps. But we haven’t gotten to that point. And we’re not just going to bang it out."
One way or another, 20th Century Studios is keeping busy, with Asbell talking about plans for the Alien: Romulus sequel, a Master and Commander prequel, the possibility of Speed 3, and more. You can read about all the rest of the biggest movies releasing in 2024 right here.
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