Dan Trachtenberg, director of 2022's straight-to-streaming, Emmy-winning Prey movie, has another two Predator movies on the horizon -- including a top-secret one that might again debut on Hulu.
Earlier this week, it was announced that Trachtenberg's Predator: Badlands, starring Elle Fanning and set, per some reports, in the "near future," would hit theaters on Nov. 7, 2025.
But beating Badlands to your eyeballs may be a second Predator project, though details on it are nil.
After Prey -- which was set in the Northern Great Plains in 1719 and starred Saturn Award winner Amber Midthunder -- became a success, 20th Century Studios chief Steve Asbell told THR, "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... coming out next year," Asbell shared. "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 teased Badlands as "an absolutely bonkers idea" and "a sci-fi thing, but it's not what everybody thinks it is.... It is so nuts. But in Dan, we trust."
The second upcoming Predator movie, also directed by Trachtenberg, "we have different plans for," Asbell allowed, "but I can't say anything about yet."
Given that Asbell qualified Badlands above as "the live-action Predator film" (emphasis ours), some are speculating that the second film is animated, though Trachtenberg's time on the Predator clock would not seem to allow for animation.
Meanwhile, the "different plans" that Asbell alluded to -- coupled with the repeated references to Badlands as a "theatrical" release -- suggest that the secret movie will, like Prey, premiere on streaming in 2025.
A representative for Hulu's original film division did not respond to TVLine's request for comment.