Predator: Badlands (2025)
Predator: Badlands is a 2025 action movie directed by Dan Trachtenberg, with a running time of 1h 47m. It stars Elle Fanning, Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi and Ravi Narayan.
Cast out from his clan for being too small to hunt, the young Yautja called Dek crash-lands on a savage world where nearly everything wants him dead. To prove himself worthy he must bring down the planet's apex predator, and he cannot do it alone. His unlikely partner is Thia, a damaged Weyland-Yutani android played by Elle Fanning, half a machine and twice as sharp. Director Dan Trachtenberg flips the Predator formula, putting the hunter at the center as prey. Brutal creature action wrapped around a buddy story about belonging, loyalty and what it takes to earn the hunt.
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What is Predator: Badlands about?
Cast out from his clan for being too small to hunt, the young Yautja called Dek crash-lands on a savage world where nearly everything wants him dead. To prove himself worthy he must bring down the planet's apex predator, and he cannot do it alone. His unlikely partner is Thia, a damaged Weyland-Yutani android played by Elle Fanning, half a machine and twice as sharp. Director Dan Trachtenberg flips the Predator formula, putting the hunter at the center as prey. Brutal creature action wrapped around a buddy story about belonging, loyalty and what it takes to earn the hunt.
When was Predator: Badlands released?
Predator: Badlands was released on 5 November 2025.
How long is Predator: Badlands?
Predator: Badlands runs 1h 47m.
Who made Predator: Badlands?
Predator: Badlands was directed by Dan Trachtenberg.
Where can I watch Predator: Badlands?
Predator: Badlands is available on Hulu, Amazon, AppleTV and Fandango at Home.
Where to watch Predator: Badlands
Stream: Hulu
Rent: Amazon, AppleTV, Fandango at Home
Buy: Fandango at Home
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Cast
- Elle Fanning as Thia / Tessa
- Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi as Dek / Father
- Ravi Narayan as Bud
- Michael Homick as Kwei (Suit)
- Stefan Grube as Kwei (voice)
- Reuben De Jong as Father (Suit)
- Cameron Brown as Drone Synth
- Alison Wright as MU/TH/UR (voice)
- Matt Duffer as Kwei's Ship Computer (voice)
- Ross Duffer as Kwei's Ship Computer (voice)
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A few thoughts on Predator: Badlands
The beating heart is the odd-couple bond, so fans should try The Last of Us, another brutal survival across hostile ground where a hardened fighter and an unlikely companion keep each other alive. For more of its exiled-soldier science fiction, Old Man’s War throws fresh recruits into vicious galactic combat with the same lean, propulsive drive.
More hunts from the Alien and Predator universe
Badlands puts a Yautja in the lead for the first time, but the hunting grounds go back decades. The original Predator and Predator 2 set the terms Dek still lives by, Predators drops fresh prey on the same game preserve, Prey moves the hunt to the American frontier, and Alien: Isolation lets you feel what it's like to be the one being stalked.
Stories where the hunter is the main character, not the monster
Dek has to become a hunter before he can be anything else, and plenty of other stories run on that same instinct. Geralt tracks monsters for coin across The Witcher 3, Kraven the Hunter turns tracking prey into a personal code, The Punisher: One Last Kill follows a hunter of a different kind, and Attack on Titan's soldiers make hunting giants their only way to survive.
Mismatched pairs who have to trust each other to survive a hostile world
Dek only makes it through Badlands because Thia, a damaged android with her own agenda, decides to help him. The same odd-couple survival bond drives The Mandalorian and Grogu, where a bounty hunter ends up raising something not remotely human, Kratos and Atreus haul each other across a hostile mythic world in God of War, and Joel leans on Ellie across a ruined America in The Last of Us.