Director Dan Trachtenberg completely reinvented the "Predator" franchise in 2022 with the release of his much-acclaimed prequel "Prey." The film took the series back decades to pit a Comanche against the famed cinematic alien hunter with thrilling results.

Trachtenberg is making sure audiences are swept away by every twist and turn present in Predator: Badlands. Trachtenberg was given the opportunity to return to the Predator franchise after Prey became a success a couple of years ago.

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.

Badlands, director Dan Trachtenberg is flipping the script and making the titular creature a hero. In Empire Magazine’s exclusive preview of Predator: Badlands, Trachtenberg explained how he wanted a Predator that the audience could connect with and root for while still keeping its monstrous qualities.

Badlands, the upcoming installment in the Predator franchise from Prey director Dan Trachtenberg, and it is a doozy. We've been reporting on the Elle Fanning-led film for a while now, but nothing could have predicted the bombshell that Trachtenberg revealed today in an exclusive interview with Empire.

B ack in February, it was announced that Prey director Dan Trachtenberg would become the first filmmaker to take the helm of two films in the Predator franchise, as he was moving

T he Predator franchise has, over the years, given us all kinds of heroes. We got Arnie’s rippling muscles in the original; Danny Glover’s LA cop in the sequel; a gaggle of re