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Film · 2025 · Predator (6 of 6)

Predator: Badlands

Directed by Dan Trachtenberg · starring Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi and Elle Fanning

  • 1 h 47 min
  • Horror · Adventure · Science fiction
  • USA
  • Released in the UK 6 November 2025
  • 8.2 AverageMovieNCo
  • 8.3 Users5 votes
  • 8.0 Critics2 reviews
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Synopsis

In a distant future, on the inhospitable planet of Khaldris, a young Predator named Xeyin is exiled by his clan after failing his first ritual hunt. Marked as Zha'di - a renegade without honor - he is cast into a barren world where electric storms and mutated creatures make survival a brutal art.

There, he meets Thia Drax, a former human soldier who chose exile on Khaldris after a failed mission that ended with the loss of her squad. Burdened with guilt and hardened by her surroundings, Thia has learned to survive in solitude, but her fate intertwines with Xeyin's when they are both forced to collaborate to face a common threat: an unknown creature that has begun to alter the planet's ecosystem and hunt like a Predator, but without following its rules.

What begins as a tense alliance transforms into a journey that challenges their respective codes and wounds. Together, they traverse magnetic deserts, ruins infested with hostile technology, and confrontations with mercenaries and radical Predators. Along the way, Xeyin seeks redemption and Thia a way to atone for her past. But in the Badlands, not all hunters seek prey; some seek reasons to stay alive.

Predator: Badlands is a science fiction story with the soul of a post-apocalyptic western, where the most dangerous hunt is not that of a creature, but that of one's own destiny.

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The essentials

Runtime
107 min1 hour and 47 minutes
Box office
$91min US
How long is Predator: Badlands?
1 hour and 47 minutes (107 minutes).
When was Predator: Badlands released in the UK?
It was released in the UK on 6 November 2025.
Who directed Predator: Badlands?
Dan Trachtenberg.
Who is in Predator: Badlands?
It stars Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi and Elle Fanning.
Where can I watch Predator: Badlands?
In the UK it is available with a subscription on Disney+ and to rent on Apple TV and Prime Video.
How much did Predator: Badlands make?
It took $91 million in US.
Is it part of a series?
Yes: it is film 6 of 6 in Predator.
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Cast

Full cast (8)
Director
Dan Trachtenberg
Writers
Patrick Aison, Dan Trachtenberg
Producers
Richard Cowan, John Davis, Lawrence Gordon

Photos and posters

All 10 photos

Reviews

All 5 reviews
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What the critics say average 8.0 from 2 outlets

  • 8.0 EmpireNick De Semlyen "A geeky commingling of lurid sci-fi, comedy and rowdy action". Read
  • 8.0 SlashfilmJeremy Mathai "By far the funniest, most heartfelt, and boldest "Predator" movie of them all, "Badlands" etches its place in franchise history — right alongside the classic that started it all and the three… Read
  • Screen DailyTim Grierson "But Trachtenberg and Schuster-Koloamatangi have crafted a legitimately heroic and nuanced extra-terrestrial who rises to the occasion, not just to save the day but also to grow as an alien. Nearly… Read

Box office

Weekend by weekend
  • US $91m
  • UK £5.4m

The Predator films

See them all
  1. Predator 1987
  2. Predator 2 1990
  3. Predators 2009
  4. The Predator 2018
  5. Prey 2022
  6. Predator: Badlands 2025 · this film

Trivia

All 7 facts

  • The Hu

    The music in the trailer is performed by Mongolian folk metal band The Hu.

  • Predator: Asesino de asesinos

    Director Dan Trachtenberg says he's also working on another "secret Predator movie that will come out before the theatrical" release (i.e. Badlands), implying that it will be direct to video and perhaps animated. This ended up being Predator: Asesino de asesinos (2025).

  • Predator universe

    This is not a sequel to the 2022 movie Prey, but it is set within the Predator universe.

  • Out of Earth

    Second Predator film in the mainline series that doesn't take place on Earth.

  • Dek

    Dek is the first named Predator as well as the first Predator to be a protagonist in the franchise.

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