Given the acclaim that film garnered, you might imagine that he'd adopt a similar approach for his next film in the series, but in fact he's done something very different. Predator: Badlands, which is due for release this week and has already received strong reviews from critics, is set on a distant planet in the distant future and does something especially radical: making the Predator itself the protagonist.
So where did Trachtenberg first get the idea for this approach?
Trachtenberg added that sometimes when people "make a cool thing" the impulse is simply to follow it with "just the sequel to the cool thing" rather than something that is interesting in and of itself. This was a trap that he wanted to avoid falling into.
"I was really pressuring myself to try and figure out," he said. "Forget Prey, forget I even did that. What do I want to do? Do I still want to make another Predator movie, and what hasn't been done in Predator and what hasn't been done in movies? And that was where the big idea came from."
Of course, this idea also gave him plenty of opportunity to add to the Predator lore – something he has also done with the straight-to-streaming animated triptych Predator: Killer of Killers that arrived on Disney Plus earlier in the year. And he explained that he wanted to "widen the doors a little bit into the culture" of the species without completely overhauling it.
"You get a sense of the culture, and then you're off with Dek on his journey through a gauntlet – the way that we've seen all the human protagonists go through in previous films."
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