How to watch Predator: Badlands in New Zealand
Prey director Dan Trachtenberg is back with another Predator banger.
While Alien cleans up streaming in the form of the critically acclaimed Alien: Earth on Disney+, it’s sister franchise, Predator, takes to the big screen with Predator: Badlands. Which is also an Alien movie, now that you mention it. Well, sort of.
How to watch Predator: Badlands in New Zealand
Predator: Badlands is screening exclusively in New Zealand cinemas from November 6, 2025.
What is Predator: Badlands about?
Directed by Dan Trachtenberg, who snuck a brilliant Predator movie under the radar with the excellent Prey a few years back, Predator: Badlands once again connects two universes by having a Weyland-Yutani android/synthetic/artificial person team up with a Predator (I think they’re still canonically called Yautja, a name too dumb to gain wide currency). They find themselves on the run on the Predator home world, with the android Thia missing her lower half, and the Predator Dek apparently kicked out because he’s a runt. That’s all we know for now.
The cast of Predator: Badlands
Stuntman and actor Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi is Dek, a young Predator outcast, and apparently a bit small for his age; and Elle Fanning as Thia, a legless Weyland-Yutani synth who teams up with Dek. In a recent reveal, she learnt she also plays Tessa, a Weyland-Yutani synth in perfect condition and apparently an antagonist to our central pair. Fanning also plays a bunch of other Weyland-Yutani synthetic people, which means that technically this thing has no human characters as far as we know.
Predator: Badlands trailer
Why we’re excited about Predator: Badlands
There seems to be a concerted push to make the whole Predator and Alien franchise pop again, and it’s working. Alien: Earth and Prey whipped unholy amounts of ass, while Alien: Romulus and Predator: Killer of Killers were solid as well. We can’t wait to see what Trachtenberg does with this one.
