What’s better than one new Predator film? Well, that would be two new ones, as it has been revealed in a new THR interview with 20th Century exec Steve Asbell that director Dan Trachtenberg is not only helming Predator: Badlands, but he has also made a secret new movie.
It began when asked if the new Predator film would see a release in cinemas, with Asbell teasing, “Yes and no”
He further explained, “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. 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.”
Asbell reveals, “There’s a second Predator movie that we have different plans for. Dan has actually directed both.” The interviewer asks, “So there’s a secret Predator movie?” Asbell confirms, “There’s a secret Predator movie that will come out before the theatrical one, but I can’t say anything about it yet.”
The conversation turns to the long-awaited third Alien vs. Predator film, which could work with this new wave of filmmakers, including Trachtenberg and Alien: Romulus‘ Fede Alvarez.
The interview then delves deeper into the fan’s wishlist, and the exec is asked, “Will we eventually see another Alien vs. Predator?” We get a subtle but strong response from Asbell, who says a simple “Probably.”
From the exec’s POV, we can see what it would look like: “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.”
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Stay tuned to Flickering Myth for more news on Predator: Badlands, the secret film, and a possible AvP 3.
