Predator: Badlands almost centered on a team-up between Yautja protagonist Dek and Prey's Naru, but director Dan Trachtenberg wanted "no humans in the movie"

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Predator: Badlands could have been Prey 2

Amber Midthunder as Naru in Prey
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Predator: Badlands director Dan Trachtenberg has revealed that the new movie could have been Prey 2, but he ultimately decided that there are other, bigger things waiting for Naru.

"I think I would say there's a bigger plan down the line," Trachtenberg told Dexerto, when asked if he considered bringing Naru back for Badlands. "I did think about the pairing before it was Thia, but then I thought, 'Well, then I'm not doing the premise,' and I really wanted to do the premise: the Predator is protagonist, and no humans in the movie. And so it became further down the line we can do some cooler things, maybe."

The character made a surprise cameo – in animated form – in recent release Predator: Killer of Killers, when she was spotted in a cryo pod in the movie's final scene, held captive by the Yautja alongside other humans who have also killed Predators (including Mike Harrigan and Dutch Schaefer).

Emily Garbutt
Entertainment Writer

I’m an Entertainment Writer here at GamesRadar+, covering everything film and TV-related across the Total Film and SFX sections. I help bring you all the latest news and also the occasional feature too. I’ve previously written for publications like HuffPost and i-D after getting my NCTJ Diploma in Multimedia Journalism. 

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