James Cameron has never made a Predator movie, but he’s oddly tiptoed all around it. He, of course, directed one of the best sequels ever with Aliens , a franchise that has been connected to Predator for a while. With The Terminator , he helped make Arnold Schwarzenegger, who starred in the first Predator, one of the biggest stars ever. And, while Predator: Badlands was filming in New Zealand, Cameron was also in the country making his own Disney creature movie, Avatar: Fire and Ash . So when Cameron gets thanked in the credits of this week’s Predator: Badlands, it isn’t exactly a surprise, but the truth of it goes much deeper than all of that.

Speaking to io9 in Los Angeles this week, Badlands director Dan Trachtenberg explained why he thanked Cameron in the credi

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