In Dan Trachtenberg's 2025 sci-fi film "Predator: Badlands," Elle Fanning plays an android named Thia, found by the Yautja Dek (Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi) on the dangerous alien world of Genna. Genna is a forbidding place, populated by all manner of lethal flora and fauna. The trees sprout quick-moving tentacles that reach out to grab potential prey. The fields are made of razor-sharp grasses, and the landscape is littered with indestructible apes, mega-bison, and acid-spitting land eels. Dek has come to Genna specifically to hunt a legendarily unkillable beast called the Kalisk, a cross between King Kong and a porcupine.

Dek finds Thia — or, more specifically, her top half — bound to a tree on Genna. She explains that she was ripped in half and left for dead while researching cre

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