Predator: Badlands' First Draft Gave Dek A Much Bigger Challenge Than Being His Clan's 'Runt'

Director Dan Trachtenberg has asserted himself as the Predator whisperer. In the span of three years, he's delivered the raved-about prequel film "Prey," the wild animated anthology "Predator: Killer of Killers," and, most recently, the big blockbuster "Predator: Badlands." The latter takes place in the far distant future, further than any other "Predator" or "Alien" movie on the timeline , and centers on Dek (Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi), a young, runt Yautja who is cast out of his clan and seeks to prove himself on a hostile planet. Trachtenberg, however, was originally going to make things even harder on Dek.

During an interview with BAFTA , Trachtenberg revealed that Dek was initially supposed to be blind in "Badlands." Obviously, that would've made things all the more difficu