Badlands
November 7, 2025 in theaters
January 6, 2026 on Disney+, Hulu
Cast out from his clan and stranded on a hostile alien world, a young Predator forms an unlikely alliance with a damaged android to survive and find a new path forward. The 2025 entry takes the franchise in a quieter, character-focused direction centered on an outcast rather than a hunt.
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"A new hunt begins."
-- Badlands teaser
DID YOU KNOW?
Announced in 2024 as a theatrical release, marking a return to wide cinema distribution for the franchise.
THE VERDICT
Synthesized from published reviews
Badlands extends the franchise's recent creative confidence into a new alien setting — a stranded young Predator forming an unlikely alliance with damaged machinery on a hostile world, following the survival-and-honor structure the series handles best. The film's willingness to center the Predator's own perspective rather than a human-POV hunter narrative is its most interesting formal choice. Whether the alien-world setting works for audiences accustomed to the franchise's human-hunter-becomes-hunted template is the film's real question. A formally adventurous entry in a franchise that earned some creative risk after Prey.
PLACE IN THE UNIVERSE
Where this fits in the larger story
Badlands returns the Predator franchise to a stripped-down confrontation between hunter and hunted, set against a landscape defined by isolation and survival. It connects to the broader mythology by placing a Yautja in a context where human resilience is once again the deciding factor in whether anyone walks away. Its placement continues the franchise's exploration of what makes a worthy opponent, carried forward from Prey and the original film into new terrain.
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Predator: Badlands Becomes Highest-Grossing Entry in the Franchise
As of early 2026, "Predator: Badlands" has achieved significant success at the box office, grossing over $184 million worldwide. This remarkable performance not only marks a new milestone for the film but also surpasses the previous record held by "Alien vs. Predator" (2004), making it the highest-earning film in the Predator franchise.