I Told 'Predator: Badlands’ Director I’d Love To See The Dinosaur Fight From The Trophy Wall, And His Reaction Has Me Curious

One of the most intriguing franchise entries among the upcoming 2025 movies has to be Predator: Badlands. It will feature the Predator as the main character for the first time as he teams up with an android (played by Elle Fanning) in search of the “ultimate adversary.” In the trailers for Badlands, there are a lot of hints at who Predators have come up against, but one that really caught my eye was the massive T Rex head. So, when I spoke to director Dan Trachtenberg, I asked him about said dinosaur skull.

If you haven’t been following the Predator: Badlands marketing, you might not have seen this image of a Predator trophy wall, which features all sorts of skulls from different species, including another Alien nod (aside from Elle Fanning’s Thea being from the franchise’s own Weyland-Yutani Corporation). When I brought up how I specifically want to see the dinosaur fight that brought back the biggest skull on the wall, here’s what Trachetenberg had to say.