Comments (Page 5)

I am not a Predator fan, but this trailer has me really excited to watch the movie. Elle Fanning looks amazing as Thia. (Side note, the music for the trailer slaps, omg.)

Also, I wonder if these guys are humans or Androids.

Oh, my gawd, this looks so good. 

I wonder if these guys are Synths too, or just regular humans.

The Empire preview is less than a week old. Haven't read anything about the dual casting being a misdirect, where was the source for the debunking? There literally is no other logical explanation for her playing 2 roles if they weren't both Synths. Even if it was the Human her model is based on, one would be aged significantly compared to the Android version.

I think the casting call was accurate and Thia / Tessa are 2 of the same Weyland-Yutani synthetic models.

I always understood there were two androids, one has a purple streak in her hair. How old is this article tho, because I got in a discussion with someone on Reddit saying the two androids theory was debunked and was just a casting call misdirect, to which I said I didn't think so and that I heard there were two versions of Thia. One of them is also torn in half, similar to Bishop.

@Chris; True, it might not be hers, but it's still an android leg so perhaps WY has been sending droids to the planet for awhile, to work or to scope out what the creature is. Either way it's interesting. And yes, I honestly prefer the androids at this point too, i've said it a lot lately lol. Can't wait for Alien: Earth to expand on that lore and Thia looks great, I love Elle Fanning so no doubt she will become a favorite too!

Nice catch with the severed leg in that screenshot! Although it looks quite thick, so perhaps it's not necessarily her leg? Although you could be right, it would make sense!

I'm actually quite enthusiastic for this film, the blending of both universes, if done tastefully could really catapult both to higher highs.

Lately I've found myself liking the android characters more than any of the human characters, Bishop, David/ Walter, Andy, etc... I wonder if Thia will steal the show as well in this film.

She's torn in half, just like my beautiful Bishop. You can see her android guts hanging out, this is why we have never seen any full body images of her in the promo material. There's shots of a WY vehicle and some android legs scattered around it too, probably hers.

Dan Trachtenberg made an interesting comment about Elle's character in this article, and in my opinion it alludes to her being torn in half;

"Physically, she’s got a real thing that i’m so excited for you guys to see. But I want to let eventually some of that speak for itself."

There was also some talk of her playing two characters, twin droids, so that could be another interesting angle. 

I kinda wish the trailer and the poster hadn't spoiled so much tbh. The original articles had a shot of Elle tied up but with normal eyes, not the WY android ones like in the trailer, the fact she's an android wasn't revealed originally.

"Guess we're doin' this one BOY style"- Thia, probably.

Updated article with third movie clip and new poster which was released!

Isn't Dek supposed to be a teenage Yautja? I think the current design works because he is a youngster, the redesign makes him look older.

More GIFs:

This epic alternative design was created by Kevin Cassidy:

Some are suggesting the skull could also belong to one of the Aliens from War of the Worlds:

Honestly, it's a toss up. Both alien species share a similar cranium shape and design. The scale reference to the Human skull still makes me think it belongs to an Independence Day Harvester, but until we get a clearer and closer look, it's anyone's guess.

Finally a Predator movie set in the future... with the Weyland Yutani Corporation in it and everything. The android kind of looks like a Silver-Eyed Witch from Claymore

Oh, they're going there alright. Lol

Oh boy, they're going there

Updated OP with current information.

I guess now we know the antagonists in Badlands will be a blend of Humans, alien creatures and characters, as well as a massive creature, sources liken to a Kaiju monster. [Source]

Not sure I buy Predator facing off against Godzilla lol, but perhaps a monster sized like the Alien Queen in AvP would be acceptable. Can't wait to see more for this film come out!

It sounds like Trachtenberg is determined to do the Yautja lore some justice with this film, I'm quite confident in his direction so far.

Please be good and not throw out the Dark Horse culture of the Yautja. Also please have them be called Yautja (Ya-oot-cha) and not (Yaht-ja)

I for one would love to see the Predator/Yautja as the main protagonist, the article mentions the Crucified Predator but completely had forgotten about Wolf from AVPR

Finally watched Prey, Good movie!

Awesome work, thank you for sharing.

@MinecraftDinoKaiju

Well I think they would see the teenagers as worthy prey and thus would not be consider children in the eyes of a yautja. I mean yautja send their own teenagers to hunt the deadly xenomorph

Oh no

Too bad THE PREDATOR was one of the worse Predator movies to date besides AVP 04

i like this man. good movie we will see..

Its okay, Nascarofdoom

I realize a good deal about the predator's subculture thru analyzing the vintage AVP comics and their tie-in novels, some honestly cool stuff. The AVP movie I experience could have been truly cool in the event that they 1) did not rent that idiot Paul W S Anderson and a pair of  made it toward the Dark Horse Comic's tale.

Sadly with Disney in charge of things, it will be an in-house Disney product instead of a Japanese anime

 also would like to add some even look more like Protoss than Yautja

I think they look terrible, they look too Iron-man/Generic human power armor designs, it lacks any authentic Yautja design aesthetics

As fan-made things, they're definitely good, but that isn't to say that I would like them in movie. They're a bit too transformer-ish to me.

It looks alright

and in some renditions were either called Hish-Qu-ten or Hish. In more recent EU stuff, the Hish became the Yaut'ja's ancestors

Oh

Cool Godzilla

They are aliens, valled Yaut-ja

I have a question, are predators a human but born to kill with skill, or are they different species of aliens?

I swear the yautja's mandibles keep growing bigger and bigger with each movie

Then you have the plethora of Predator comics that features the yautja as a protagonist, AVP 1989 is my favorite AVP comic thus far but the noevlization was bit better since they gave the predator characters names and goals.