SPOILER ALERT: This story includes major plot details, including the ending, of “ Predator: Badlands ,” currently playing in theaters.

When Dan Trachtenberg first began conceiving “Predator: Badlands,” the director knew he wanted to do something totally different with the 38-year-old sci-fi franchise. He’d already done it once with 2022’s “Prey,” which is set in the early 1700s and follows a Comanche woman (Amber Midthunder) who must fend off the fearsome alien monster with little more than her wits and her trusty dog. Trachtenberg did it again with the franchise’s first animated feature, 2025’s “Predator: Killer of Killers” (directed with Joshua Wassung), which chronicles how a ninth century Viking warrior, a 17th century Japanese ninja and a 20th century American WWII pilot all ma

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