New Predator: Badlands Trailer Sparks Theories for How a Xenomorph May Make a Surprise Appearance to Turn It Into a Secret AVP Movie

Have you seen the caller Predator: Badlands trailer? If you person — and you’re a instrumentality of the Alien franchise — you mightiness person noticed much than a fewer nods to the celebrated sci-fi fearfulness franchise. But fans are present speculating that the trailer whitethorn suggest Predator: Badlands is much than a Predator movie with Alien references, and whitethorn really beryllium an AVP movie successful disguise.

The trailer, below, shows Elle Fanning’s Thia onslaught up an confederation with Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi’s young Predator outcast, Dek. Thia, arsenic erstwhile trailers had already revealed, is simply a Weyland-Yutani synth from the nefarious company’s bio-weapons division. Weyland-Yutani is of people the celebrated mega corp from the Alien universe, and it seems it has immoderate plan — oregon astatine slightest beingness — connected this alien decease world.

Here’s the absorbing bit: successful the trailer, Thia tells Dek that he’s the prey here, and warns him that he’s seeking retired "a carnal that can’t beryllium killed" and "the definitive apex predator." The mode the trailer is chopped suggests this is simply a notation to an tremendous monster who looks similar thing we’ve seen successful either the Predator oregon the Alien movies truthful far. But is this the monster Thia is really talking about?

Some fans judge “the definitive apex Predator” successful question is not the elephantine monster the trailer shows us, but successful information a Xenomorph, perchance adjacent a Queen. “That has to beryllium wherefore Weyland is progressive successful a Predator movie astatine all,” redditor MakaylaAzula said. “The posters and trailers are showing this elephantine monster to fool america into reasoning that’s the large bad.”

With this successful mind, the last changeable of the trailer, which shows a mech that whitethorn good beryllium a Weyland-Yutani Power Loader marque a melodramatic entranceway to combat the elephantine monster, could beryllium thing of a bait and switch. Thia teases this mech's instauration by saying: "We mightiness not beryllium unsocial successful this hunt." Who is she talking about? Is it a Xenomorph? Who is piloting the mech?

Some fans present judge that a Xenomorph volition crook up close astatine the extremity of Predator: Badlands for a last combat involving the Predator (and imaginable different Predators who alert successful to assistance out), Thia, and that mech, frankincense mounting up a aboriginal AVP movie that volition articulation the 2 franchises astatine the hep erstwhile again.

There’s besides the upcoming FX TV amusement Alien: Earth to deliberation astir here. Some fans deliberation the iconic Predator clicking sound tin beryllium heard successful 1 of the Alien: Earth trailers. Could a Predator crook up astatine the extremity of the bid to prevention the day?

Let’s extremity connected comments from Alien: Romulus manager Fede Alvarez, who revealed to Collider successful February however he’d present an AVP movie to audiences if helium were fixed the chance.

“The mode I would bash it, astir likely, if it could beryllium done this way… It’s harder to support secrets online… The champion AVP volition beryllium the 1 that you don’t cognize is AVP until the different feline shows up,” helium said.

“You deliberation you’re watching a Predator movie, and past they onshore successful immoderate spot and determination are creatures, and fucking hell, it’s a Xenomorph. That would get me. ‘F*** yeah!’ You’d spell crazy.

“Or vice versa, you’re successful an Alien movie, and past abruptly a mysterious carnal is there, and you tin perceive that sound, and you spot the cloak, and you go, ‘Is that a f***ing Predator?’ And past turns retired it is. That would beryllium the mode to bash it, don’t you think? Once you enactment it successful the title, it’s like, ‘Spoiler alert.’”

Interesting…

Predator: Badlands hits theaters successful November.

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