In a recent interview with Screen Rant at SDCC 2025, Dan Trachtenberg, the director of the upcoming Predator: Badlands, revealed that the movie won’t go into much detail on the Predator culture and homeworld, despite the film featuring a Predator as its protagonist for the first time in the franchise. According to Trachtenberg, this was because he didn’t want to overcomplicate the film by introducing and explaining an entire culture, and wanted to focus on a more self-contained story. Here’s Trachtenberg’s full explanation:

“Well, yeah, I mean certainly the movie and the story starts on the Predator home planet, so we do get a glimpse of their culture. It was important to me, though, that we didn’t make a mistake or something. I sometimes get a little abrasive, I sort of relent when a sequel, or some big franchise, starts to deep dive into the lore rather than the story. I think there’s a difference between the two, and I was not at all interested in telling the story of the senatorial disagreements between trade alliances of the different Yautja tribes. So, the movie is still very much an aggressive, vertical gauntlet, but we do get just a nibble of Yautja culture.”

This story approach can be seen in action when Predator: Badlands opens exclusively in theaters on November 7th.