A second 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 details about its release slate, studio president Steve Asbell revealed that director Dan Trachtenberg directed a second Predator project that may receive a streaming release.
Asked about 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 said. "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 added 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.
The remarks will leave fans will plenty of questions, like whether 20th Century Studios plans on making a sequel to "Prey", which was critically lauded and a fan-favorite.
It also leave fans wondering whether there will be another Aliens vs. Predator movie, especially with the Alien franchise enjoying a renaissance in the wake of "Romulus".
"Probably, 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," Asbell explained. "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."