Badlands, Dan Trachtenberg's sequel to Prey, has been given the green light and is set to shoot this summer
PREY 2 Teaser (2025) with Amber Midthunder & Dane DiLiegro
According to a piece in The Hollywood Reporter on Friday, director Dan Trachtenberg has greenlit a second Predator movie, following his straight-to-Hulu horror thriller Prey. But while Prey's critical success and streaming success as Hulu's most-watched premiere ever had fans expecting a Prey 2 to eventually be made, the report says that Trachtenberg's new Predator movie will be called Badlands and will play "sometime in the future."
As vague as it sounds — and as exciting as it might be to return to Amber Midthunder's Great Plains Comanche warrior character Naru in a direct sequel to Prey — the news is an early indication that Trachtenberg is given the freedom to make the Predator movie he wants to make. And that in itself is good news for fans of the franchise.
"When we were making [Prey], we really enjoyed conjuring up all the special unique things that we could do, not only in this franchise but also in this genre, that would be unexpected," Trachtenberg told Polygon in late 2023 . "Some things happened that are very expected, but some things were very much not. And so all of that was and continues to be really fun to think about and explore."
