'Predator: Badlands' Director Teases 'Alien' Crossover

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One of many extra stunning issues concerning the promotional rollout for "Predator: Badlands" was the reveal that Elle Fanning seemed to be taking part in a Weyland-Yutani android; one thing often reserved for the "Alien" motion pictures.

Talking to Leisure Weekly, "Badlands" director Dan Trachtenberg confirms Fanning's character Thia is a Weyland-Yutani artificial, and he additionally explains why he selected that over casting the actress as a human.

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Trachtenberg defined that one of many challenges of "Badlands" and one of many issues that impressed the movie was the concept of constructing Predator a sympathetic protagonist.

He initially thought-about making Thia a human, however anxious that will take an excessive amount of focus away from Dek (Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi). That is when the concept of utilizing an artificial character got here up.

Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi in "Predator: Badlands". Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi in "Predator: Badlands". twentieth Century Studios "After which the following thought was, wait a minute, I do know an organization that makes robots," Trachtenberg recalled. "And that led to the Weyland-Yutani synth of all of it."

Making Dek extra relatable can also be why in contrast to the Yautja in different "Predator" movies, you will not see him carrying a helmet fairly often.

"We had been tempted, however the entire thing is, are you able to discover a means into this monster?" Trachtenberg stated. "Shrek is not carrying that knight's helmet all through the entire film."

"It is like, no, the concept is he is an ogre. That is it — and you are going to have the expertise with that man and hopefully fall in love. And in order that grew to become the trail right here: actually saying, sure, he's a creature, and sure, hopefully you are going to fall in love."

Whereas Thia is an artificial like those we're used to from the "Alien" movies, Trachtenberg needs followers to know they should not count on a full-on crossover between "Alien" and "Predator" in "Badlands."

"It's thrilling to have this film be just a bit toe-dip hyperlink between these franchises," Trachtenberg stated. "It is essential to me — I'm certain individuals anticipate a a lot greater factor, and possibly different motion pictures and different cinematic universes could be extra aggressive — however I actually did not wish to take all of the motion figures and smush them collectively. I actually wished to inform a cool story."

The "Alien" and "Predator" franchises have crossed over earlier than and should achieve this once more. Together with "Alien Vs. Predator" entries in different media, there was the 2004 movie "Alien Vs. Predator" and its 2007 sequel "Alien Vs. Predator: Requiem."