Following the success of Prey (2022), director Dan Trachtenberg returns to the Predator franchise with Predator: Badlands. It is scheduled for release on November 7, 2025. The film is the sixth live-action installment in the long-running sci-fi series and the first to fully bridge elements from both the Predator and Alien universes. Building on the survivalist tone of Prey, Trachtenberg aims to expand the mythology in an unexpected direction. Dan said, "Following the movie Prey, I was thinking about what I would do next. I wanted to make, truly, an adventure movie about a monster and a robot.