Director Dan Trachtenberg has continued to re-invent the "Predator" franchise with his latest feature effort, "Predator: Badlands." This is now his third entry in the series, following the 1700s set "Prey" and the all-over-the-place animated anthology "Predator: Killer of Killers." This time, he decided to take the greatest hunters in the universe and set them far in the future. But just how far in the future does the movie take place? Pretty far, it seems.

Trachtenberg recently spoke with Variety and offered some clarification as to where "Badlands" falls on the overall "Predator" timeline . What slightly complicates matters is that this movie does take place in the same universe as the "Alien" movies, so there are two different continuities to take into account. Trachtenberg attempt

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